NEW ZEALAND SONGS
Sir, —I wonder if the fact that Miss Grade Fields during her recent visit sang three songs composed by a New Zealander was noticed as it should have been. These numbers were particularly good, but a feeling of intense surprise was the main feeling, when Miss Fields made acknowledgement to a New Zealand composer. There must be many more such compositions, and I suggest they should be recorded, and one half-hour a week set aside by one of the broadcasting stations for relaying "Popular Songs By New Zealanders." It would not take the listening public long to decide whether they liked their fellow-countryman's efforts or not.*. It would, at least, give these songs a chance to live, instead of being dead and buried, almost as soon as they are born. —I am, etc., CONVOY FOR COMPOSERS.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 6
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139NEW ZEALAND SONGS Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 6
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