Beginning this week, God Bless America will be barred from the mikes of the networks, and swingsters will have to palpitate to something other than the St. Louis Blues. The sentimental will listen in vain for confections like The End of a Perfect Day, and Irish tenors will have to croon something besides Macushla and Mother Machree. For Protestants there will be no
Old Rugged Cross; for Catholics, no Rosary; for Jews, no Eili Eili. There will be no tunes by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern. Rachmaninoff, Kreisler.
All these and 2,000,000 other compositions are the stock-in-trade of the American Society of...
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