CROONERS CONDEMNED
DEGRADATION OF POPULAR TASTE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. " I cannot imagine a crooner inspiring anyone into war service," said Sir Sydney Nicholson, who is director of the School of English Church music and a former organist at Westminster Abbey, when asked why this war has not produced thrilling marching songs comparable with those of 1914-18. "It is conceivably due to the degradation of popular taste by the perpetual sound of jazz and crooning," said Sir Sydney. "We are going through an age of most terrible sentimentality. The wireless is constantly giving out ' Darling, let me sit beside you.' If people like such stuff it is "likely they will not want to sing anything decent."
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Evening Star, Issue 25171, 10 May 1944, Page 2
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121CROONERS CONDEMNED Evening Star, Issue 25171, 10 May 1944, Page 2
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