Light and Popular
UR contribution to the playing of light popular songs has, in the main, left me more than cold, positively hostile. Sometimes the songs, as in Bob Bradford’s shows, are presented smoothly enough, but I have often wondered whether a poll would show a widespread demand for their miasmic emotionalism and the baby-voice technique employed: I hope not. To me such things are an invitation to decadence in the form of the slack will, the slack mind, and even a slack joie de vivre, to which I greatly prefer the. gallivanting movement of the Rhumba. In other shows the songs may have been creditable, but the presentation has been inept. It was, therefore, with relish that I idled away 20 minutes or so listening to 3YA’s recordings in New Zealand Light Variety. There was sufficient substance to the songs to satisfy me, and the skill of both players and singers proved equal to their material. The only distinctively New Zealand item was the Haka recording in which the New Zealand National Band really got going, and I suppose that the next goal is for our song writers to give our artists meloAe, en taniace’. tha "Wale aoe
and "Tumbleweeds."
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 12
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202Light and Popular New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 12
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