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URING the past few weeks, I have found Henry Walter’s All Day Singing (YA link, Saturday evening) a much more reliable programme than the often patchy Theatre of Music affair which precedes it. I’ve heard. many American folk song series of one kind or another in my time; but none so varied and so full of the unexpected as Mr. Walter’s. He seems to draw upon a collection of exceptional range and quality, so that he can group his samples under various headings, instead of offering grab-bags. What a joy it is to hear fine songs of the people in their original form (like the theme song of the series "So Long’’) instead of in the mutilated, hotted-up versions of Tin Pan Alley, which turns one of the most desolating of ballads, "Down in the Valley," into a female crooner’s nightmare. Mr. Walter’s wellinformed, engaging comments, help to make his series of exceptional value. Although the programmes are drawing to an end, I hope it won’t be long before he is back again. I’m sure he hasn't axhausted his collection by a long chalk. Only one question-why AII Day Singing? It reminds me of "all-day sucker"; and there is no sucker connected with this programme,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 22
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209Good to Know You New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 22
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