VERSE AND CHORUS
HE voice of Jean McPherson will return to the air ‘from 2YA at 8.13 pm. on Saturday, February 25, and for several Saturdays thereafter. The show, of quarter-hour duration, is designed to test listeners’. knowledge of popular songs., Almost everybody. knows the chorus of a few popular songs, old and new, but the verse is a different matter The song writer beats it out in his telephone-booth of an office in Tin Pan Alley, and it goes on to the sheet music with the chorus, but it isn’t often put on to recordings, or sung when a band relays fromm a dance hall. Could
eS I ee TS: A EO ee eg har ee you identify a well-known song, even of hit parade calibre, just from hearing the verse? You'll have your chance in Verse and Chorus, when Jean McPherson will sing the verse of a song, give you:a little while’ to connect it with a title, and then sing the chorus to prove you right or wrong. Jean has been singing in weekly shows from 2YA long enough for tisteners to be familiar with her voice. During the war she sang in: many camp ccncerts and hospital shows, and some of her programmes were recorded and broadcast from the Forces’ stations in Egypt and the Pacific Islands. Barry Cookson, the compére for Verse and Chorus, did a similar job for three or four mionths on Martin Winiata’s ‘Tune Parade from 3YA. Another of his radio jobs in Christghurch was a part in The Ingoldsby Legends, when Barbara Basham produced it from 3YA. Since he came to Wellington he has compered Henry Rudolph’s. show, Among’ My Souvenirs, and shared with..Selwyn. Too- . good. the narration of They Came to Stay, but this is the first time he has broadcast with Jean McPherson.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 17
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304VERSE AND CHORUS New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 17
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