Shortcomings of Dance Music Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 31, 8 February 1935, Page 7

Shortcomings of Dance Music Broadcasts

To the Editor, F | Sir,-What I am mainly interested inis new release dance records. It is nearly six months since listeners of dance music had the pleasure of hearing a whole session of new releases. To(lay they are few and far between. The programme organiser seems to hay very little to do in organising dance sessions, and for some three or four months listeners have hearil the same sessions over and over again. Bnthu-. Siasts will recognise some of the following titles as the usual operiang numbers on the main sessions: "Be Carefuy, Little Soldier," "Two Can't Sit on iw Three-piece Suite," "The Paked Potato Man." Have the motion picture film com.panies banned the broadcast of dance recordings from musical films before the film is released in New Zealand? Continental dance sessions are still humerous, but this type of dance music is rather prehistoric. Nothing is more unnoying than to listen to 9n hour of recordings without any voral refrain The singing in Paul Godwin’s Orchestra, even though it is often ‘n German, is more pleasing to the ear than the awful crooning of American and English bands. Those who may have ar‘anged a dance in their homes, re.ying on the radio for music, have my sympathy when a Continental session is broadcast, for dancing to the Polydor Oychestra is next to impossib’e.-I am efec..

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