I CONSIDER myself lucky to have grown up listening to good music, such as swing bands, i.e., Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Harry James, crooners such as Bing Crosby, Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole, songbirds such as Doris Day and Ella Fitzgerald, wonderful musicals, with music written by composers Irving Berlin and Hoagy Carmichael, jazz performers like Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson, and Dixieland music.
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None of this music is ever heard on any of the radio stations that broadcast to the New England and North West of NSW.
The ABC has four stations that come over the airwaves, being Classic FM, Triple J, Radio National, and our local New England ABC from Tamworth.
None of these stations play the abovementioned music, and, in my opinion, people who want to hear that type of music deserve to hear music from the 1940s/’50s/ ’60s era.
On Saturday night, we hear five hours of country and western.
Why not have swing and jazz on alternate nights?
Older people do not need as much sleep and need to listen to music they like, not what some programmer or presenter puts on.
Why not have a radio station that plays the music of the ’40s through to ’60s for them?
Ken Lloyd
Gunnedah
