MUSIC BY WIRELESS
TRANSMISSION OF NEW FOX TROT. A COSTLY PROCEEDING. (Press Association — By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 10. (Received Feb. 11, at 5.5 p.m.) ) Before an interested audience in London Mr Jack Hylton took down, by wireless telephony from New York a new fox trot, “The Shepherd of the Hills,” which Horatio Nicholls composed while en route to America. Mr Hylton, while writing note for note, suddenly shouted: “We would get on better if you sang it,” which was successful until the singer cracked on a high note. Mrs Hyton, who is visiting- New York, then sang the air, which Hylton repeated completed in 20 minutes. The cost of the sending was £IOO. Mr Hyiton prepared the fox trot for the orchestra and his band played it at the Alhambra within four hours. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20022, 12 February 1927, Page 11
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