The Personal Touch
HE easy friendliness of 1YD’s music sessions is, to my mind, especially attractive, because, while shunning the impersonal-oracular approach, it does not degenerate into the hearty-facetious. Doug. Laurenson, one of the most experienced and accomplished of Auckland announcers, is largely responsible for the maintenance of.this happy mean. He draws upon an unusually large store of knowledge of popular music for his racy but economical comments, and his own evident pleasure in the pieces he plays often make rather ordinary or hackneyed works sound quite new and original. In his All-Time Hit Paradé recently, he played that durable chestnut
"Manhattan" twice-once for the music, once for the words-and because, he said, he liked it. And he almost persuaded me that I-did, too, This touch is out of disc-jockey class. It isthe kind of thing that gives ‘a station~personality, which, as some of our announcers have yet to learn, is not something you
can turn on like a spigot.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 10
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162The Personal Touch New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 10
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