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• WHY has the public taste in dance music suddenly changed? The Blucs pre out: the bright old-timers aro back. And forgotten numbers are bringing windfalls to their com- posers, says--*

CHARLES GRAVES.

YOU don't need to go to at night club to realise that there has been л revolutionary change in dance music in the past two months.

Five minutes of any repre- sentative BBC dance programme prove that bebop has received a severe reveres, like the endless songs about frustrated girls in luve and other Blues numbers.

The switchs in to the hurdy- urdy type of tune like "Music. Musle, Musle," "Lovely Bunch of Coco-nuts." "Talve Baked Cake" and "Cherrystones."

I all began n few months no when an unknown dise

Jockey in

Munich played a Brunswick record on the American Network, Fores

The tune W lk 24 Street Tweilth

Ra" played by Peewee Ian's Band, Just

Lil Mariene.

before written long &

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY, 13, 1950.

SO YOU

SANG-

...in the bath to-day--and helped the revolution in London's Tin Pan Alley

EVEN THE CHARLESTON ... makes a 1950 come-back. Remember how they did it in the 'Twenties?

the war, was played by another 1 has gone back to the vintage unknown disc jockey on the years of bright, strident fox- Continent in 1941 and overnight trots of the early Twenties and became the favourite rong of the the peakeas.es. Afrika Korps and then that of The Eighth Army, before sweep ing England, towelfth Street Ita-revised after 30 years- became the range of Europe.

A

at

pub-

astonishing number people mand have listened to the and Munch

Station Hadlo pimptly started asking for 11. not only from the muse lishers, but also from the Khairs of Housewives Choice atel Ferce: Favourites on the

BBC.

1-

There are many attempts to explain the sudden popularity of tut Disrond type of melody, Geraldo thinks it is popu

of lar

it k a fornt N!Uu་

Winick Is capism Manice convinced that one of the chief reasons for its success is that the 14-called Dixieland mutubers are very easy to daner ta.

A director of Francis, Day unel Hunter, who was a professional musician tumself in the old days, says that the real reason for the revival of these old-tine num- bers is that the pubic have grown fred of the smart-aleck makes which orchentration famous tunes like "Rody Soul" completely anrecognisable and can turn a smooth old melo. dy like "Japanese Sandman" in. to a kind of "Tiger Rog"

In view

of the virtual <liɛ- appearance of the banjo, the phrase "Dixieland music" In not really applicable to the new hunky-tonk numbers: perhaps janglebox music would be a better phrase, in the future one can confidently expect the grow ing popularity of "At the Jazz- hand Bal, "The Johnson Rog," The Darktown Strutters Ball." "Chicago" "That's *Plenty" and, though it is not typically Dixieland music, "Me and My Shadow."

OLD

They cash in

LD stagers will remember Art Hickman's Band. The Dixie- land Five (who were really six), and Beact's Frisco orchestra, It is that gay, almost breathless, musle for which the public is now clamouring.

One effect of all this is that elderly composers, and In mang | cases their widows and children.;

reevivint windfalls from both sides of the Atlantic from! al numbers

had which they completely forgotten.

IF Eunay Bownaan is stil alive, he must have made

rent fortune m Twelfth Street Rug

o!

thanks to which no fewer than three janglebox muut-

Smart present-day composers

the game idiom,bers are are writing in while the bands are using that instrument, the Jangle-

Hadersl quer Dox, to eluce the barrel- organ effect which the pubie is now demanding in ever-increas

at numbers.

Dixie numbers ĮNCIDENTALLY, anybody who has a pisno can produce the same result by raising the lid and placing any ordinary length of metal chain newss the strings IP Pust always be merator that the da Being puble contin largely of people between

the

before starting to play.

C

We

3 and of 16 and 35, to whom all the sent favourite revivals D "I'll String Along With You" or

1

11 True What They Say About

HOLIDAY!

with BERNARD WICKSTEED

Desire meets a thrum-eged

the first six of STOKE GABRIEL (Devon).

They're off today

...

GILES and FAMILY But back soon

nets

Sim

tondun Express Service

¡Dr°åmr°ose

this work's muste pub- TERE we are on a fine

The 20 teading: list of hits.

with

sunny day in spring others Bike

showing England to Cherrygones" rapidly climbing the ladder.

KYX 2, our promising post- This sudden reversion to the

war ear, and for her first twenties is keeping with the

we've chosen the uld forthroming revival

of "City run Lights" and is Breif a reminder beat down to Devon.

I keep telling KYX 2, or De- of that old favourite, "The Music

Round aput Round,"

sire as we coll Her AT 11 In the American trade mara-family, what a lucky car she being

crapluusis more ani. Here she

refers to willing through their manners.

zines the

is, Muffed with

her,

There's nothing wrong with

enled

When

is a

CANON WARNER'S Wookly column

marriage not a marriage..?

"A few years ago 1 What people don't realise married ¤ man with is that this romance wearn whom I afterwards found it impossible to live, and tome while after I had to leave him. This marriage was made in a register ofice and I never been consummated. Would be wicked to set This marriage side?"

off very quickly in the early days of marriage if ignor ance results in a failure to make a success of the more intimate sides.

To go into marriage with ET me say first that the your eyes wide open, your fact you were married doubts settled,

your fears Jin a register office by resolved, and ignorance dis- itself makes no difference pelled, is surely the right whatever to the life-long approach to happiness,

nature of your marriage re- Intionship.

So many of the "fare-ups" between newlyweds arise direct-

Only if there is something else that in fact has never completed your marriage ly through little things that are can you ask for release. going wrong and about which the You say your marringe couple find it difficult to speak, was never consummated. or even to explain to themselves. This does not by itself in- There need be none of this it ench has properly been pre- validate it.

rared. Romance will grow, not wither.

which We

If, however, it was by wil ful refusal of your husbund

If your parents got on oil right that consummation did not without it, so much to the good. take place, then you have They were unusually lucky. That every reason for going to other people of their generation beet 50 lucky is have not the High Court and asking proved by the marriage break- For a decrce of nullity. This down rate

ate today, now to be about one breakdown

inarringes. to every four preparation?" you ask.

"What is covered by melage Eather books, lectures, or personal lake artful look Hälles a c at the spiritual, emotional, und physical sides.

The bee which unconsciously would be a declaration that

can ns Cupid,

transfer in fact no marriage ever did pollen fruin a thru-eyed prim- take place, and you would to a pin-Le free. eyed one more

There is also another fact. easily than to another flowerIf your husband has so con- the ametheted himself as to show type.

i was his intention of bring It's a splendid arrangement. The only trouble is that at the ing the marriage to an enl, time the primroses flower there and you had therefore good are very few bees about, Early cause for leaving him, he ards get the worm, but early would be guilty of flowers don't get the bre.

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live in A

structive desertion."

of his

"con-

11

Have we both the same kind of spiritual ideals?

Are we agreed about children when they are to arrive, their

Its pacing, methods of spreleg?

What about the home? Onances-relations with our in jaws, amusements, and hobbies? There's much more to "pre-

So every year miflions at This means that though

11ftle primroses are de he was the one actually to paration for marriage, but you It drar utparis.

the joys of parent- more is on the "correct" versions happy people

their abundance, not prived of

hood, and if it wasn's for their stay at home, yet he would now see the general idea. Indeed, they've of such old-timers as "Maple the lanes of Devon in the sun- then an milem of Tory respec- ability to mereme their nume regarded as the deserter.

bora by sprendinst out under-because and Temptation shine of an English spring. He tability for generations. Leaf Rag" Bar" Even the old piano relis fore we've finished with

They joined the Conservative ground we might are being dusted oft and the Desire should be an authority Party

the tine of Disraeli, primroseless world. mic word as the latest on her eative and for we are the prinese was his favourite As usual, Shakespeare puts thing for jazz enthusiasts. going to show her all the thing tower, and Queen Victorin en better than du.

The whole idea there, is to she'd have missed had she be im a bunch every year for his fer's Tute" he says— Et buck 10

the sent nlroad for export-the

balcon. The Plaid in the corner of the old things that go to make up

the music of

Charlesion is al-land.

Dixie?" come completely fresh, dy back, and experts predict They are need only remind that the popularity of Dixieland ed of their existence either by music is the first step to the rag- American films such as “Al Jol- con Sings Again" (which Vay

has wrought "Is It True What They Say About Dixie right back

to favour after being dormant for 24 years), or by disc jockeys. It was Jack Jackson, for ex- ample, who was responsible for la ster of "So Tured," just

'Speakeasy' tunes is it war Richard Aftenborgh

IG

Lark

once

song

birthday,

of

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conduct. After three years you would POCKET CARTOON have grounds for divorce.

However, it is improbable In "that you would have to take this method of release from pate primroses him if your marringe was That die unmarried, ere the in fact not a marriage at

en behold

Bright Phoebus in his strength,

have died

Neither of them knew that the party was harbouring

political iceret plant with a

The leaves of the primrose Branch from The root and not

"unlady Yout mustn't teti Most incident to maidy. of nearly a peneration aju. WE

her the steni. Roing to show THIS head is likely to be Ware pubs followed in England

fat least, the out. Lord Woolton or the Prinse

It doern't harm the primrose League this, but the botanical thatched cnt- Where "Alexander's Rag-side of them).

is "radi- plant to plek the flower, you'll wird for such leaves fantes, flowers in the hedgerows, Banel" "Ragtime

b ter to

but hear,

you dirt up the roots Cowly due and Tiger birds, market towns and cathe, cal."

dral cities, people at work, and Darwin studies the love-life shouldn't Rug have made inter-

unti the flowers mittent appearoneta

over rivers where the best fish lie.

primroses. In the knew an Englishman

of botany, down. lanstuurte here since the war.

In Australia who had a grumo- they hybridise very readily.

Fresh prinrose leaves chopped Now 40 ervan every-

onu of the Who 1: re props ble for the

are reviving The phone record of a lark singing The polyanthus is

up in salad are a substitute for thing, they "Mune Mu Pegastusty

It was a simple bit results, Its ancestors were a

lettuce. JUST as punters, not book- Muar," which, though now, is

Old Kent Road in the Design at dawn.

but he did to say primrose and a cowslip that JUST

For further reading I am told for Dancing programire on the of recording.

should play it for Jurs on maker, ore primarily respon- typiel Dasilind.

end, tipped once too often.

that no primrose lover When the

B.B.C. riginal Dixieland sible for the racing odds, so the

tears an down his cheek:

miss Fengler and Pr's "Die to the music number were phyed the band

Naturlichen public can dietste

Planzebamillen" (Leipzig 1087-1008). Ili bet It's to play and consisted of five pieces only

and taorle pools in the dust at profession what

Desire will hear the lark for pano, drums, vent, double bass

his feet, juzilish.

ita faret, nt banju.

She' hear the barn) The orchestration

herself. The public

-(London Express Serplee) f all the dreary

owl grown tirel

was very simple and the mule new-fashioned over-clever and was a charly defined romanon-

numbers with semi-tuneless

time rhythm, fOLET brats to the which they have been nflicted bar, with the second and fourth for the part three or four years. beat accentuated.

have,

PS-The

next

thing!

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doubt will be "K-K-K-Katie fellmset by "Yes We Have No Bananas, not to mention "El Relicarlo" and "Valencia." For it seems as though now every thing goes today.

(World Coperteht Retrevel--tam- don Express Service.)

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE

The elderly couple

on

the merry-go-round

NOME of the sprightliest Stalk to be heard in

Manhattan these nights is in the coffee houses fre- quented by the talented and

by

BILLY ROSE

man's rence

of

bells on Sunday morning.

IF

Two kinds

Lame,

exciting. you take a dozen primroses,

The apparently in the ruined tower at night, and the country church and look at the closely you will find that half the flowers different from the other Just now we are introducing are her to primroses,

England half.

One lot have a thing in the without primroses in Apri

like a preen unthinkable, and yet hundreds croire that looks

This is the signa

of cars leave these shores every glass-eye.

tiss without over having ex- or end of the pistt. The other perienced the

ancient custom et have

troup

of Ave little

of taking the family out prin- yellow things covered in palien,

They are named stamens. toring

Here in Devon the bank! and the dies of the woods are yellow with their flowers, aut as one of my boy's to rithtly says, "They

Flowers of the first kind ure pln-eyed and of the called second thrum-eyed.

NOW

split them down the make you feel it of centre and you'll see that the happy, don't they?".

of their life?

The pritaroze

pin-eyed platil-packing momma

Bendes picking them and also has five stament, but they are down at the bottom where being made hry by them, have

And the one you ever con led the story the nectar is.

with the stamens at the top has bottom that's a pista! at the more like a mawn-off shotgun. It is all an elaborate device to encirage cross-brerdink, su produce biter beautiful primroses,

(Primula vul. paris) is only a hurable country humour.flower but it comes froth a very loped them. The kid got the good family called the Primula- brass

mich. "ile's

The name goes back 15 ceae. entitled 10 a fre ricte."

the Romans, you know.

AS the merry-go-round amin the tinny strains of Chiri-biri biin

I intend to stay as long as started up,

threadbare refugees of 1ean b of 1250." Mittel-Europa.

His unefulness, however, came drowned

put the mother's to an end a few afternoon later screams, and the last the couple

Night after loquacious night, when a detachment of 55 men saw of their son br was riding you'll find them huddled over at his doorb:11.

on the merry-go-round. red-and-white checked table-

The doctor, who had been The surgeon was 100 valuable cloths, and though many a cul- warned to expret them, led his a commodity to kill right off, tural door has been slammed in wife and son out of the their faces.

a skilled rear and so was his wife, they reinain a

They were cont to a spirited and sociable lot short door. But as they hurrled up the nurse.

street a neighbour spotted them slave labour camp 10 tend on money, perhaps, but long on and gave the alarm. banter and bravado.

tore prisoners considered too healthy for the ovens, and when

Most of the stories spun by As the hunted trio turned a the Allies marched into the them are on the comle side; yet, corner they came upon a small camp in 1945 the couple were once in a while they come up merry-go-round which had still alive. with, a yarn which leaves a been ret up in a public square pingpong ball in your throat. to celebrate the arrival of the 133 this time

For intance,

there's the tale German "liberators."

but

the surgeon's Thinking brain AVD3 a bit misty, about the old gentleman and his fast, the surgeon bought three friends in New York paid h

the tickets and climbed aboard with passage, and he rrying wife who, during

and his wife summer months, can be seen family as the battered runabout were among the Incky ones who almost every day on the merry started up.

not by the Immigration quota. go-round near the Central Park Zoo, holding hands

their

The child was placed astride while the adjoining ponite pump

gaudy zebra. Up and

parents sank way back in one lown.

Who are

they? Well, to tip of those chales whose outsides you, I'll have to go back several make a swan.

and several years miles .

SHORTL

thousand

VER since the pale have been spending most of their summer days in the vicinity of searched the the

Central Park merry-go- rounre and were about to move round. on when, the boy, to whom it

The $$

me

and decency went underground, ride!"

a well-known surgeon and his

ກ

and

minute

was all a gnie, reached out. The old boy is pretty much grabbed brasa ring and, off his trolley, but his wife con- after the Narls furning to his parents, shouted: tinues to humour him. When-

Vienna Look! look! Now I get a free ever he gets goose-stepped into

ngitated mutters, Where's Otto? I saw him on the zebra Attracted by the boy's cries. ago," she patiently takes him ancestry, were urged by friends the storm troopers dragged the by the hand and says,

Eon doctor and his wife from the

merry-go-round and were about alch, dear, maybe he got tired The surgeon refused. "I'm to take the child when their and went home." needed at the hospital," he said, leader, a youth with a hong-

wife, both of frowned-upon

to take their six-year-old

and leave the country.

"Come

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