DANCE MUSIC.
Sir-May I add a few words in emphatic approval of "Disc" and his views on the gradual elimination by NZBS of the more advanced type of recorded dance music. From memory. this quiet but obvious. purge began with the evening programmes from 6.0 p.m. onwards at 2YC. I recall that 18 months ago it was a distinct pleasure to look forward to 30 minutes of recent releases, "Songs for Sale," until 6.45, and then more of the modern idiom until at least 7.30.. This has now been cut at least 50 per cent. As 2YA and 2YC form the medium for the bulk of my listening, I am more directly interested in their programmes. Now, however, I find myself chasing around the dial late at night in an effort to locate that very elusive programme of that seemingly maximum period of 15 minutes of good jazz with the King Cole Trio, Bebop with Gillespie, and the Blues with Holliday.
I seriously ‘suggest that 2YC relieve the tension of the air from 9.0 p.m. Saturdays (caused by a spate of newscasts, analyses, and never-ending sports results) by replacing the latter half of the Symphonic Hour with a_ wellbalanced feature of good dance music until 10.30, when the National stations are unfettered again. Such programmes should also be placed in the hands of sympathetic announcers.
PROCTOR V.
(Palmerston North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 14
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