Happy Mean
HE regular light musical programmes from 1YA’s studio strike the happy mean between specialist swing and socalled light popular music, and so usually provide pleasant, effortless listening. The key-stone of the Musical Friends and the John MacKenzie Trio sessions is the versatile and agreeable pianist John MacKenzie, who can deceive the listener into believing that an old and banal tune is a new and original one. One recent Thursday evening, a suave performance by Messrs. MacKenzie, Ray Gunter and Bob Ewing of uncacophonous music was followed by a rowdy, ear rending programme from Stan Kenton’s orchestra, and the contrast told strongly in favour of the local combination, The vigorous Musical Friends session on Monday nights seems to me to owe most to the clever arrangements and the slick piano work. In fact the only blot on this programme is the laboriously facetious script, verbose and unfunny, which forces the announcer to indulge in personalities so inept and tasteless that even an American radio comedian would scorn to use them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 11
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171Happy Mean New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 11
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