The Music They Want
(CORRESPONDENTS in an Auckland daily recently raised the questions of levels of taste in the ZB mid-Sunday request session, Listening with both ears instead of the usual one, I found that the Great Public seems to go mainly for jolly, bouncing tunes with brass in them, like "Sound Off" or-"Sugarbush" or "Bella Bimba." Sprinkled among these are a steady average of the pensive-sentimental-"Because," Novello tunes, westerns, or the version of "Auf Wiedersehn," which sounds as if it were recorded in a cave. Lanza and other strenuous tenors are good for two or three discs per session; so are agreeable oldies like "Blue Moon" and "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," suitably shined and up-to-date. Other classics -- Beethoven, Tchaikovski, Chopin-appear in small chunks; some meet an appropriate fate, as in the boogie version of that Sword Dance. Add for good measure some pleasing freaks like the one about the
foot-bone connected to the ankle-bone, or the gravel-voice version of "My Heart Sings." .That’s the mixture, and some people apparently wouldn’t touch it with a long spoon; personally, I listen to ZB Requests just for the heck of it.
M. K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 10
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194The Music They Want New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 10
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