Out of the Past
HY do so many people of my acquaintance, like myself, find 1YD the most soothing local station to listen to during the weekend? Partly, I suppose, because the music goes on for such long periods uninterrupted by chatty announcers, news bulletins, time-signals and the like. But also because only on 1YD do we hear nowadays those old records of up to a quarter of a century ago, which recall both the early days of broadcasting, and, nostalgically, the schooldays and youth of those just over two score. Sandy Powell, Jack Buchanan, Leslie Henson ("I don’t give a damn if you burst into flames’), George Formby, Jack, Cicely and Claude Hulbert, Flotsam and Jetsam ("Is he an Aussie, is he, Lizzie?"), Flanagan and Allen, Horace Kenny, Maurice Chevalier, the Village Concerts ("Life is butter melon cauliflower"), and even the "Two Black Crows" whose jokes we used tirelessly to exchange at play-time-these, coming a trifle scratchily from 1YD-seem to convey the mood of a less angst-stricken age. Is this feeling mere sentimental recall? I don’t think so for, as one of my brood remarked with astonishment recently, "You know, those characters
? are really quite funny!
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 13
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199Out of the Past New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 13
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