SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
"ft is the customary fate of most popular songs to suffer the indignity of successfu] parodying," writes a cofrespondent. "But in the case of ‘Dragnet,’ the theme of Jack Webb’s American television show, and a composition by the radio, television and record choir-leader, Walter Schumann, this motion of disrespect is carried to unprecedented lengths. Not only is there Stan Freberg’s ‘St. George and the Dragonet, which now stands side by side on the U.S. Hit Parade with the original, but ‘Dragnet’ has suffered a reverse in the true dictionary sense for it has been re-written backwards. Jerry Grey, famous as an arranger on the staff of the late Major Glenn Miller, is the culprit. . If it is astonishing to find a logical, catchy melody as a result, it is even more surprising to find that, when he completed the deal by reversing the title, he finished up with the orderly ‘Tengard.’ The Ike Carpenter Orchestra has recorded ‘Tengard’ which, the critics predict, will become a hit." * |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 29
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170SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 29
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