LIGHT MUSIC
75. The younger generation knows exactly what it wants in the world of light music and made its voice loudly heard through the medium of the request programmes, which continued to receive several hundred letters each week. The rival merits of Elvis Presley and Pat Boone were the main contention, both gentlemen being given full voice in 'Popularity Poll', 'Hong Kong Hit Parade', 'Nightcap', 'Lucky Dip' and 'Just For You'. More specialized sections were served by 'Home and Hospital Requests' and 'Unit Requests', which dealt weekly with a local unit, and as a concession to those for whom the word ‘dig' has only an agricultural connotation, Rolan Evans presented a new series of reminiscences, geometrically planned as 'Strictly for Squares', while a red letter day for orthodox lovers of jazz was the concert from the Loke Yew Hall by the visiting Jack Teagarden and his band.
76. In the sphere of legitimate light music, the Hong Kong Concert Orchestra, the R.A.F. Band of the Far East and the Band of the Lancashire Regiment, all presented concerts, whilst Hong Kong's sparkling nightclub industry was well represented by Saturday night broadcasts from the leading boites. Local nightclub singers also came into a wider limelight in a series of programmes called 'Starlight', which featured the Colony's leading popular vocalists.
77. The art of popular piano playing was neatly displayed by the 'Piano Playtime' series featuring Larry Allen and Nick Demuth, while the world of light music found two recruits from more serious music when tenor Robert Witcher and soprano Patti Duncan got together with Moya Rea to present 'Music on the Lighter Side',
78. Personality continued to count in the presentation of specially recorded programmes and the unique flavour of John Wallace's Look What I've Found, Gillian Durling's Sweet And Sour, and Colin Stuart's Jazz Club gave these programmes their own faction's support. One of the most popular of these continues to be Knights at the Round Table, in which Nick Kendall and Bill Dorward joust at each other's taste in music, often over the supine form of one Charlie, who appears in the programme by kind permission of no one, except John Wallace.
VARIETY
79. This is the thing we are always being told we cannot have enough of. We entirely agree and it is entirely a question of supply trying to catch demand.
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