CROONING & JAZZ
CORRUPTION OF POPULAR TASTE REASON FOR NON-PRODUCTION OF MARCHING SONGS OPINION OF ENGLISH MUSICIAN (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 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 of 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,” Sir Sydney said. “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 that they do not want to sing anything decent.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1944, Page 4
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