Four-footed Friends
BOUT eight o’clock on a Sunday morning, while the milk bottles clink and the kettle hisses, you can be pretty certain to hear from the speaker the manly tones of Roy Rogers singing about that Wonderful Four-footed Friend. No doubt the faithfulness of the Junior Request Session to this disc is due to the popularity of Mr. Rogers himself. But surely it also appeals to the deep sympathy which the Great Anglo-Saxon Race have always felt for Our Dumb Friends. In confirmation, the other one that comes up with almost equal regularity is the plaintive song about the doggy in the window, which caters for the same sentiment on a more domestic scale. Who can disbelieve that we are still a race of animal lovers? But doubt intrudes. For the third that you are certain to hear onevery request session is "It’s In the Bock," which has (it’s true) something to do with sheep, but is mainly in a tone of healthy sadism. It illustrates, I suppose, the Race’s other talent for pure and inspired nonsense-a side of its character which I much prefer. Perhaps all Four-footed Friends should be washed with Grandma’s Lye-Soap?
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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198Four-footed Friends New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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