SWING OF DANCING.
SAID TO BE GETTING LAZIER.
LONDON, November 16,
"Dancing is becoming lazier," declares ■Jack Payne, the founder of the British Broadcasting Corporation's dance band.
"The public wants, amusement with a minimum of exertion, and mostly desires slow tunes of the blues and fox-trot type.
These must not be melancholy or mushy, but leisurely, happy, haunting melodies like 'Auf Wiedersehen.'
"Syncopated music is unfashionable, but a few {pod tunes, full of pep, like 'Mona,' make headway.
"Thank heaven, jazz is dead,
"A fortune awaits the composer of a big hit, like the Charleston, but there are no present signs of anything original setting another style of dancing. Eccentric rhythm is insufficient. I have rejected many because the public won't trouble to learn."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 7
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124SWING OF DANCING. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 7
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