Jazz is Not Unpopular Among Listeners

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 22, 7 December 1934, Page 6

Jazz is Not Unpopular Among Listeners

To the Editor. Sir,-Your correspondent, J. D. Parkin, in breaking out yet again in his obviously bitter feelings upon modern jazz, surely walks off with the proverbial cake in propounding his amazing suggestion that a petition be instituted among your readers praying for a total discontinuance of all jazz, with the ex-

ception of dance sessions. It is entirely erroneous for him to suggest that jazz is unpopular among listeners. Let him taken another look at the result . of your ballot when he will find that it ranks most high in listeners’ estimation as a form of entertainment and not merely as an accompaniment to dancing. Your correspondent would, if he had his own sweet will, censor from the supply of musical numbers and records that type which comprises easily its largest proportion. Readers of your journal will dismiss the petition proposal as laughable, knowing full well how the license figures would suffer and what an outcry would follow upon the adoption of his "cut-out-all-jazz" policy. Sir, in conclusion, may I make a plea that we hear during sessions other than dance sessions a few of the latest dance "hits" in the form of fox-trots and waltzes, This would add much variety to present fare, for I observe that apart from two or three numbers from: the auxiliary station at tea-time one has to wait till a late hour at night to hear anything from among the wide selection of numbers offering.-I am. etc..

Wellington.

AMUSED