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March 18, 1940.
1940-Biggest Song
Hit
was
Inspired by
Mozart, born in-1756
By GUY RAMSEY
THE SONG VINTAGE of 1939-10 will rank with that of 1912-13—which saw the birth of ragtime—as one of the "great" years of popular music. Not for many seasons has there been such a crop of catchy tunes.
Leading music publishers were recently asked the reason.
One held the view that such "great" seasons "just happened"; a second, that the war itself had given a fillip to popular songs; a third that the black-out had made people stay at home, listen to the radio or the gramophone, and play the plano, and thus become more "music- conscious"; a fourth that music in a corrective to war depression.
THE "SMASH" ITS Eight music publishers were can- vassed, and their "smash" include:
hits
Why Does My Heart Go Boom? Goodbye, Sally,
There'll Always be an England. Eighteenth Century
Drawing-room.
Somewhere in France.
Bella Bambina (new).
Wish Me Luck.
Till the Lights of London Shine
Again,
Schatteniny Day.
We'll Meet Again.
Cheerioh! I'll Be Seeing You.
They Can't Black-Out the Moon. Franklin D. Roosevell Jones.
In addition, there are two "old" favourites still going strong: "Hong
Nazi Its
Derby to Have Name Nazified
GERMANY, like
BERLIN.
almost every
Reason
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DJULY 1,30-11
country in the world where horses column and race, has "The Derby" among its half
a
of classics.
'CRIMES' !
An issue of Voelkischer Beobachter,
out the Washing on the Siegfried leading Nazi newspaper, announces
Line" and "South of the Border?
BASED ON SONATA
"One need not delve further into
jthat Hitler is going to It concludes:***
change the name because the history books to understand why The top song of the moment is "Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," "the bloodstained history of we do not wish to see the name of which started life as an instrumental the British earls of Derby of ponents of an English policy piece only; It is based on
makes the name unsuitable According to the musical Press the for a Nazi horse-race."
Words were added later. Mozart Sonata.
order after that is "Somewhere in France" and "We'll Meet Again."
Eight of the best-sellers have some thing to do with the war: although name of them du not mention it ex-
pllcity, the sense of parting is im- plicit in the sentiment,
The German Derby has been run
every summer at Hamburg for sixty years. The new Nazified name of the classic is not yet chosen.
the
rapine, blood and murder, and the land-grabbing of the lords of Derby perpetuated as designation of a German horse-race."-British United Press.
**First Derby was run at Epsom in 1780. Its orign is disputed. One ver- sion says that it did not get its name
To support the change the Voel- from the twelfth Earl of Derby, as is kischer Beobachter gives a list of generally supposed, but from Derby- According to one expert, it is the crimes committed by the Derby haven. In the Isle of Man, where il tune that makes the song for more family running to one and a half was run for 153 years before being; than the words.
coluning.
transferred to Epsom Downs.
Well, if that's how you feel...!
THE
THE RAF. pilot had run out of
petrol and it was getting dark. Hej made a diMcult landing on the sandy beach of what he thought was an uninhabited Island,
As the plane pulled up, a man op- peared and in truculent Scottish sald: "Are you a German?"
"No," said the airman, "I belong to the air base
at"
"You're not Scottish?"
"No," said the pilot, "I really be long to Capetown.
The Scot inquired exhaustively into the pilot's bona-fides, and de- manded papers to support his state-¦ ments
-At-last, when the pilot sald-some- thing about "I'd like to shoot all the
Germans," the Scot was satisfied.
"I that's how you feel, you've landed in the right place. Come and have a cup of tea," said he.
Spy Jailed For Life
CASABLANCA-Fritz Schubert, a German, was sentenced to life impri- sonment by a military tribunal in Casablanca recently for espionage.— Exchange.
LATE NEWS
PETITION AGAINST PRINCESS
PRINCESS HARRIETT RADZIWILL, who is related by marriage to the ex-Kalser, was the subject of a bankruptcy notice in the "London Gazette":
In the notice she was described as lately of Grosvenor House, Parklane, “but whose present address the petitioning creditors are unable to ascertain." The petition will be heard at the High Court on May 23.
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