Seven Song Hits.

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 June 1934, Page 8

Seven Song Hits.

It was said by one of the foremost comedians of the world that “it takea one Englishman to write a good song and four German-American names to make it a commercial success.” This may—or may not—have been an exaggeration, but the fact remains that nearly every song published by Americans has two, three and sometimes more, names to it as composers and lyricists.

The production.of “Aunt Sally,” the Gainsborough musical-comedy, starring Cicely Courtneidge, and screening at the Opera House .to-night and to-mor-row niglit, present® a notable exception to this rule. Maybe Harry Woods was the “one Englishman” the come-

dian first-mentioned had in mind, for lie composed and wrote. the lyrics of all seven song-hits in this picture. __ Oatcliy melodies and splendid, lv?JPa are features of ail seven songs, winch are titled, “You Ought to See Sally on Sunday.” “We’ll All Go Riding on a Rainbow,’/ “The Wind’s in the West,” “My Wild Oat,” “i Wapt a Fair and Square Man,” “If J Had Napoleon’s Hat,” and “Ain’t She .the Dainty?” * Dobroy Somers Band, England’s most famous broadcasting and recording mnrical combination,y play ali "these numbers in orchestrations during the picture,/ VsiinU several/ of themj lardy ‘iWe’H All Go Riding dm.aP Rafhi! bow,” provide the musical setting foi v spectacular ensembles.