DANCING FASHIONS
MINIMUM OF EXERTION
SLOW TUNES' PREFERRED
LONDON, Nov. 1G
" Dancing is becoming lazier," declares Jack Payne, the founder of the British Broadcasting Corporation's dance band. " The public wants amusement with a minimum of exertion, and mostly desires slow tunes of the blues and-fox-trot type. These must not be melancholy or mushy, but leisurely, happy, haunting melodies like ' Auf Wiedersehen.'
" Syncopated music is unfashionable, but a few good tunes, full of pep, like ' Mona,' make headway. " Thank heaven, jazz is dead. " A fortune awaits the composer of a big hit, like the Charleston, but thera are no present signs of anything original setting another style of dancing. Eccentric rhythm is insufficient. I have rejected many because the public won't j trouble to learn." j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 9
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