3LO CRITICISED

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 24, 30 December 1927, Page 14

3LO CRITICISED

COMMUNITY SINGING AND JAZZ, Station 840, Melbourne, has been hauled over the coals for broadcasting community singing and too much jazz, by an Australian listener, as follows :-~ Community singing has, long ‘ago, peen "weighed in the balance aud found wanting," simply because it has*no appeal for the genuine lovers of good singing, who, thank Heaven, are in the majority. The fact that the community singers at 81,0 sing such things as-‘"Old Macdougall had a Farm" and "Jingle Bells’? bears me out in this, for no pets son claiming to be the least bit musical would be bothered with such trash, © Station 81,0 devotes one-cighth (4)' of its entire weekly broadcasting time. ta jazz, and it is dovbtful, therefore, whe« ther the management of that statios could Jay claim to good jud megs a what constitutes "cheap tacky ""*"~