Memory Lane: A new year in the old borough - Palmerston North in 1927
The day was also filled with music – gramophones and radio were part of most people’s everyday furniture now. Hit songs of 1927 would still be sung and played, 90-plus years in the future, from the up-tempo cuteness of Ain’t She Sweet and Me And My Shadow to the plaintive strains of My Blue Heaven, Someone to Watch Over Me and Stardust. Berryman’s Direct Importers were advertising the Williams Playola, a mechanical piano that even non-musicians could have fun with. “The gradation of tone from the faintest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo is a revelation. The touch is pe...
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