WNEW New York, whose Little Songs on Big Subjects elevated the singing commercial to an educational and cultural plane, last week finished a new series of jingles which promise to be an even beigger hit than their predecessors.
Your Little Songs About UN are just wonderful.
We all find them (Little Songs About UN) perfectly delightful and we are sure the project will be extraordinarliy successful. The fact that such a wide diversity of critics has praised them speaks very well of the quality and charm of the songs. The UN cannot do what needs to be done itself. It needs the help of everybody.
.. UN has been having a tough winter and the (Little Songs About UN) is just what it needed.
UN Jingles to circle globe - Little Songs to sell the peace. The first ambitious effort to inject a showmanship hypo into the UN "sell the peace" program.
I recently heard your Little Songs About UN and I want you to know how really fine I think they are. The music and lyrics together deliver an important message in a style that is provocative and at the same time disarmingly charming. I think your songs will perform a real public service.
Lake Success - De. 22 - A.P. - The United Nations has decided ... that the UN can use musical messages to help sell the peace.... The UN radio division is sending the recordings (Little Songs About UN) to stations in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other nations.
Jingles for peace ... One minute jingles selling the last best hope of earth: permanent peace.
What are folk songs but songs of the peoples, expressing their hopes, their dreams? Folk songs have often been used internationally towards better understanging. Little Songs About UN are examples of new folk songs using modern techniques, with one aim - international understanding. We hope that these songs will be sung around the earth.
The City College of New York Honorable Mention 1949 to WNEW and
Little Songs About UN "for the creation of a radio program
unusually effective in station promotion"
The Thirteenth American Exhibition of Educational Radio Programs Special
Award to WNEW and Little Songs About UN for "a program furthering
international understanding during 1948"
George Foster Peabody Radio Citation to WNEW and Little Songs About UN
for "an outstanding contribution to international understanding through broadcasting."
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