“Nothing New in the Latest Music”
COMPOSERS MERELY PRODUCING VARIATIONS ON OLD THEMES Is there something “strangely familiar’’ about the melody of today’s most popular, song. Certainly there is. For there’s nothing n&w in music. Mack. Gordon and Harry Revel, who write, more hits than any other songwriting “team” of the moment, make the admission of fact (it’s no confession) and offer no defence, “There just aren’t any new ideas in music,” says Revel, the 110-pound pianist half of the team. Gordon, who writes the words, weighs closer to 3001 b. “Practically every musical combination that the keyboard offers has been discovered and used, generally years
ago. In writing opr now -numbers for Paramount’s ‘Stolen Harmony,’ i:i which George Raft and Ben Bernie will be featured, we’re looking for novel lyrics and hoping for' tunes that will not be too reminiscent.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 100, 1 May 1935, Page 5
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