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(IN WORLD WAR I)

MUSTANG

Credit card to Edmund Chan.

17-21

CLUB MAILBOX

AM 19 years old and work as a secretary.

NOTICE

BOARD

Smembers

(OME time ago, one of the

My hobbies are sports (especially tennis) animals, books having a debate. and travelling.

German.

suggested

May I suggest the follow- As well as English, I also speak French and am, by the way, ing topic for discussion:

CAPITAL --PUNISHMENT BE ABOLISHED.

I would be very pleased if I could correspond with one of SHOULD your members.

Uschi Poigne,

Mainz/Rh

Slemensstr. 5 Deutschland.

J

I am sure the teenagers will have much to say on the subject.

The Hit Parade

By

NEW programme for

Hongkong .teena- Scene" a

gers! "Teen

by

half hour record pro-

presented gramme Marilyn Palmer -- takes the air at five o'clock this afternoon.-->

Ted Thomas

1. Look for a star

2. Come back to me my love ....... 3. The Ding Dong Song 4. No

5. Itsy Bitsy Teenle Weenle Yellow

Polkadot Bikini

6. Candy Sweet........

7. Summer's gone

8. Come back, Silly, Girl

9. Oh, my, you

10. To Each Its Own

11. Romantica

12. My heart has a mind of its own

13. A Kookie Little Paradise 14. Wish I'd Never Been ‘Born .. 15. Lullaby of Birdland

16. Please

17. I Love you in the same old way 18. Temptation

19. Love walked in

Daya Guĺab.

Garry Mills Mark Dinning Trai Chin

Dodie Stevens

Brian Hyland ...... Pat Boone.

...

Marilyn first burst onto the entertainment scene here with a prize in 'Radio Hongkong's "Beginners Please" some four or five years ago. Since that to win date she's continued -prizes for her ability as` a

Rediffusion's. performer.

went to "Talent Time" title

her, and then she startled the record buying public by cut- ting her own record featur- -

·Ing “Lullaby of Birdland? and "My Blue Heaven.",

Since the record she's enered for, and won, Hong

power Cha Cha kong's Off-Beat dancing competition, and taken second prize In Radio"

"Junior Disc Hongkong's Jockey" competition.

Marilyn's not concentrating on the younger set by any means and promises something for everyone from sixteen to sixty, but with a

20. Sad River

Sunday evening, is already a great success in Britain,

The Radlo- panel liked it too. It's so seldom that they "agree on the subject of one" record that we've immediate- ly placed an ́advance order.

Many's the time that popu- lar singers of the day have been accused of faking the

our

style of the masters of days

had by. We've gone groovey

share of "second. Bings" customer like Marilyn; the kids aren't going to be left "Second Carusos" and "Second out by any manner of speak- Frankles," but an item in one of the Music trade magazines Ing.

this week offers a new twist.

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NY day now the latest

A kivis L. P. "G. L

Blues" will be on sale in the record shops. The event may cause little stir in the hearts of the older listeners but for the younger set It'll be the event of the year.

The range of the young mani from

was Tennessee, who once shrugged off as an over- night sensation who wouldn't see the light of the next morning, la ́astounding.

From tearaway rock 'n roll through blues and ballads to a lullaby, Elvis. Presley keep you entertained..

can

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6678 Frank Sinatrà copying "The

the style of Bobby Darin,” asks the writer.

On the

of It: It's

face

laughable suppose, but on thê ́ ́mattér a little giving thought it seems a closer look would be justified.

Frank has been at the pinnacle of singing success for many years now, yet his style has been basically the blues, same whether singing swing

musical comedy material. Then: along.came another Bobby Darin, yet

Frankie "second"—a second indeed!

ог

The vocalist and

Add to his outstanding per- formance as a entertainer the fact that ports on the movie dub, him as a very accomplished light comedian, and

you too

will marvel at the new show business legend that has grown up around Mr. Presley.

THAT very funny record

CD

zired

"Mr Custer" first

Radio Hongkong's. Disc. jury, “First Impressions" last

label stuck because, when listeners came to think about it there was a certain similarity. At this stage no. body dared to suggest that Frankle himself had modified his style to fit the new swing- ing beat set by newcomer Darin.

On Sinatra's Intest there's little doubt about it. "01" Macdonald" is moulded in the unmistakable Darin style, the

Paul Anka Steve Lawrence The Poni-Tails The Platters Jane Morgan Connie Francis

Jo Ann Campbell

Patti Page Marilyn Palmer Debbie Reynolds Paul Anka

Roger Williams Dinah Washington The Platters

same musical stanza insistent and repetitive, developing in and drive until it reaches a magnificent climax. Then the lyric," again the un-

Darin mistakable

touch. Listen to this newest Sinatra and ponder the question. JOHNNY Mathis hasn't been

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occupying a spot in the top twenty for some time and his legion of loyal and true fans might be wondering why.

Well Johnny has reached the unassailable position - of being regarded -- as a “stayer” In the music business and Is. concentrating less and less on temporary though sensational beat tunes. -

Touring the clubs and In the... States nighteries Johnny is developing as . a the showman, and widening scope of his considerable talents.-

one

Even so a really hot manages to slip through from time to time, like f'rinstance "A Certain Smile” and “Call Me." The latest to rate in Love For America is "My You." Mathis lovers will love him more than ever.

HITS HERE AND THERE DEPARTMENT

In America:

1. Save The Last Dance For

Me The Drifters 21 Want To Be Wanted-

by Brenda-Lee. In Britains 1. It's

now or

Elvis Presley.

Never-by

2. As Long As He Needs Me

-by Shirley Bassey,

jobs

Try out various to decide your career

NE of the paradoxes I have noticed is that the

&

settling down and marrying, urge the same child to take the first job that comes along.

Yet frequently the new high school or college graduate has as little idea of what he or she work as wants for a lifetime he has of what he wants for a lifetime mate.

MAJORITY DON'T KNOW

Of course some young people do know, but a large majority of them emerge from school or college with only the vaguest idea about a career.

What to do?

Well, it is a little easier in the case of a young man than it is in the case of a young

woman.

PROGRAMMES ́FOR MEN Most big companies have training programmes where a work in each young man can

of the different departments and thus, so to speak, try each one

Young Graduate Is Often,

on before deciding which area Confused Over Choice Of Work he wents to specialise in.

and

As a rule, there are no such to a temporary agency training programmes for young specify what field she wants to women, partly because of man- try out....

agement's all-too-justified con- I know one girl who spent viction that many of them will her first year out of college not stay in the labour market doing this- She tried cosmetics, long enough to be worth putting fashion, a magazine, the travel training time into.

field and the hotel field befors

TAKE TEMPORARY JOBS settling on the one she wanted

But the young woman can ALTERNATIVE IS WORSE work out her own training pro-

Parents sometimes get gramme if she wants to.

She can

learn typing and easy when I recommend this, shorthand-in fact I think they but the alternative I think is ought to be a "must" in high worse.

school and can carefully plan The alternative is to settl a series of temporary jobs in down in the first permanent job various fields..

that comes along, only to find,

The girl whose typing is fast a month or six months or and accurate is always needed years later, that it was enfire». in today's economy. She can go by the wrong one for you.

Credit card to Victoria Tang.

TANG

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