Listeners fooled by song
PA Wellington Radio New Zealand caused a few raised eyebrows yesterday. As the eulogies to Sir Keith Holyoake faded from the Parliamentary broadcast, the Concert programme played what some listeners thought was a full orchestral version of the Communist anthem, “The Red Flag.”
However, it was not the political blunder of the year.
Radio New Zealand’s controller of programmes, Miss Beverley Wakem, said that as Parliament adjourned, the tape for Music for Pleasure had been selected. Among the first tracks had been the German folksong, “O Tannenbaum," sung by the Temple University Concert Choir with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The song’s opening lines in English are not, “The worker’s flag ...” but, “Oh, Christmas tree . . .” However, the tune is the same.
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