TOO MUCH JAZZ

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 27, 20 January 1928, Page 4

TOO MUCH JAZZ

SYDNEY STATIONS CRITICISED. Mr. Julian Ashton, the noted Australian artist, holds strong opinions as to what should and should not be broadcast by the Sydney radio stations. In a letter to station 2BI, he states that during the hour from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. one day recently eight fox-trots were broadcast, also two very indifferent organ solos and the sickly sentimental song ‘Because J Love You." He declares that with the immense range of vocal and instrumental records . by musicians and singers of renown it is monstrous that listeners should be subjected to such rubbish. In the evening, says Mr. Ashton, listeners suffer from fox-trots broadcast from the Ambassadors and the Wentworth; therefore he hopes that this class of music will be strictly eliminated from the morning service, Mr. Ashton, however, thinks the weather forecasts is a most important feature of the broadcasting programme, a subject of interest to every mother of children going to school, every business man, every labourer, and all men on the land. He considers it important that a summary of the news should continue to the broadcast each morning, and he points ont that listeners can gain fuller details from the papers,