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THE
MUSIC TRADE
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REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS.
REVIEWOGRAPHS.
F. J. A. Forster & Co., the Chicago jobbers, are
Business is Dull With the Majority of Pub-
contemplating opening offices in New York. In
lishers—Summer Song Successes Few and
fact, are looking for a place within the classic
Far Between This Year—What a Leading
precincts of Twenty-eighth street, and a suit-
Publisher Reports.
able man to manage the business. This move
is said to have followed the establishment of a
Establishments heretofore the scene of activity
jobbing house in the western metropolis by A. H.
and general briskness have felt the withering
Goetting, and therefore the Forster Co. propose
touch of dull business during the past week or
carrying the "war into Africa."
two, for the first time this season, they admit.
This has been the normal condition of trade for
More than seventy German music publishers
a month or more in other quarters, but the flat-
have
signed the appeal to the chancellor regard-
tening out process now seems to be in effect in
every direction. Other lines have been experi- ing the founding of a national music library,
encing a cut off in orders not down in their which is to contain copies of all the music
calculations, and music publishers evidently be- printed in the empire. Attention is called to the
lieve by this time that sales can only be ex- anomalous fact that in this matter Germany is
pected when goods are salable or in demand. At behind France, England, Italy and the United
any rate, some reliance was placed on favoring States.
the obsessing "Hiawatha" that was heard al-
most exclusively. But on Saturday no melody
from the repertoire of the bands was played more
frequently than another, and none showed signs
of equaling the popularity of its predecessors.
"A String of Pearls," a pleasing little inter-
mezzo, recently published by Stern & Co., gives
promise of being a big instrumental success, if
the opinion of private musicians and the music
trade can be taken as a criterion. The music
trade in particular report a steady and increas-
ing demand for this dainty little number, and
declare the sale quite unprecedented, consider-
ing the short length of time it has been pub-
lished.
"You Must Be Dreaming When You Talk Like
That," by James T. Brymn, writer of "Please Go
'Way and Let Me Sleep," "Josephine," etc., is the
latest ballad from the press of Willis Woodward
weather, when material indigenous to summer
Chas. K. Harris last week contracted for the & Co., New York. It is spoken of as a great go.
might be marketed; but counting on a melody to
Herr Teschner, the junior partner, who will put
be a hit because it specifically deals with the publishing rights of the "Gingerbread Man," book the requisite force back of this new song, has
and
lyrics
by
Fred
Rankin
and
music
by
A.
Bald-
presumable attractions of pleasure resorts is akin
to "playing the races." How many publishers win Sloane, and which goes on at New York in
liniAf DCAIIV f A few "ready sellers" at
n U t f WCHUI • 10c. each on first orders.
have fallen in the "summer song" ditch! Never- October next. Mr. Harris will go on to see the
production
of
the
"Land
of
Nod"
in
Chicago,
Alice D a r l i n g M a r c h Song - .:">(! ijHE MOORE
theless, the same proceedings are again being
S'v'.H'thcMrts Vi»!-"v.T- l ] > {!' 1 |l'a <
MUSIC CO., ItlC.
brought to the front, the notable exceptions be- June 11, at the Chicago Opera House. "The Isle
of
Bong-Bong,"
also
on
the
Harris
list,
has
been
Oil the Heach Hencuth the Moon
Frink H Pcrrv Aft?r
ing the houses of standing who had followed this
—HuniiniT Waltz Sonjr - - .51)
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will-o'-the-wisp, in preceding seasons, to their bought by W. C. Whitney, and it will be
TaiiKlofooi, .Joe—Twi) htep - - .">(> 1345 Broadway, N.Y.City
transferred
to
the
Grand
Opera
House,
Chicago,
sorrow.
As one publisher expressed it:
Keep your eye on our publications.
"Last summer we pushed a song—one ex- for a short run, and then comes East to Boston
pected to be a sure winner—and 'blew in' a round and later to New York. "Would You Care?" a
JEROME H. REHICK & CO.
$2,000 on the thing, and our net returns, true as new high-class ballad, from the pen of Mr. Harris,
ANNOUNCE
and
"A
Clever
Stunt,"
by
Raymond
Hubbell,
were
I live, were just twenty cents! No more for us."
Still the horn blowing and immense signs in published Thursday.
" M Y IRISH MOLLY O"
BY JEROnE & SCHWARTZ
front of publishing houses are indications that
The Music Teachers' Co-operative Publishing
others are learning the same lesson.
The
terrific
hit in "Sergeant Brue," sung
Business, however, is not altogether to the Co., Cincinnati, was incorporated recently for
by
Blanche
Ring,
and other big hits by Je-
bad, but very little boasting is heard in the land, $50,000 by Guy J. Robson, Theo. G. Rechel, Peter
rome & Schwartz.
Biedinger,
H.
H.
dishing
and
L.
F.
Moreland.
and when a wee, small voice is raised on high
declaring "sales were never better, and the out-
JEROHE H. REHICK & CO.
British copyrighting business is being solicited
look is brighter yet," the knowing ones declare
DETROIT and CHICAGO.
it gives them "such a headache." The appended from American publishers by M. Shapiro, now
established
in
London.
Every
house
of
any
im-
45
West
28th Street,
-
NEW YORK
remarks, anent the situation, were handed The
portance
has
been
approached.
Review this week without any ifs or ands:
"Let me tell you, and what I say is the truth,
One "tired" publisher thus observed: "What
business is quiet and the trade is suffering from can you expect in the way of business when
an over-production of stuff. Publishers have houses, whose locations may be nameless, but are
"MEET ME DOWN AT LUNA, LENA"
overloaded the market with cheap music, and we known of all men, sing their sojigs through a
B i g g e s t S e a s o n S o n g on t h e M a r k e t ! G e l i t !
are all suffering the consequences. This has megaphone from a window in order to attract the
"DO DROP IN AT DEW-DROP I N N "
been threatening for some time, and now it is attention of the passing and lounging vaude-
Charming Waltz Song! A Hit!
here. Irresponsible publishers have rushed out villians? Could anything be more despicable?
"BUSTER BROWN"
issues, at the expense of the printer, of course;
Cartoon Song. Hit in "Buster Brown" Pro-
And what are we coming to?"
duciion.
little if any of it has been sold, the dealers are
corked up with dead wood, and there you are.
"AIN'T ANYBODY EVER COIN' TO BUY"
The last issue of the Menestrel, of Paris, has
If goods w;ll not move the trade are not so fool- an astonising story of an American firm which
Latest Coon Song and a Winner!
ish to order in another stock on hazard. The has paid Mr. Sousa $500,000 for his last suite,
ADDRESS ALL OHDKHS TO
cheap publishers have finally killed the goose which presents the characterizations in music of
THEATRICAL MUSIC SUPPLY CO.
that laid the golden egg. But we, who have large the "Duchess," "The Countess" and "The Queen."
44 West 28th Street, New York
capital invested, must suffer for the folly of the It states further that it is the intention of said
fly-by-nights. My only hope is that the price of
publishers to make superb "editions de luxe" and
sheet music will go so low that this class of so- to present one to every court in Europe and
POPULAR SONG and INSTRUMENTAL HITS
called publishers will be driven from the field Asia. I t is a good story, but since the John
PETER PIPER MARCH
POLLY PRIM MARCH
entirely. Then, and only then, will there be a Church Co. know nothing of such proceedings,
EGYPT
SHAME ON YOU
chance for the reputable houses and better com- the story must be accredited to the factory of
ZEL-ZEL
I WANT TO BE A SOLDIER
PEGGY BRADY
BIG INDIAN CHIEF
positions—for more than half the stuff now on impossible possibilities in which our foreign
the market is absolutely nauseating, not to say friends so frequently indulge when they deal
disgusting."
with America and Americans.
GREAT SUMMER HIT!!
A. F. ADAMS GOES TO EUROPE.
Avon F. Adams, New York manager of the pub-
lishing business of the John Church Co., left on
Tuesday for London. He will visit the European
branches of the John Church Co. and will be gone
probably a couple of months.
Thos. Goggan & Bro., Galveston, Tex., publish
the following as recent numbers. Instrumental—
Three teaching and recreative pieces by Harry
Pabst, and a vocal, "The Convict and the Song,"
by Joe S. King.
The Heald prize competition for words and
music of a Yale song has been thrown open to
graduates as well as undergraduates.
The police parade on May 6 proved finally that
no popular melody has this year made sufficient
impression to be called the song of the summer,
says the New York Sun, in the sense that recent
seasons have all brought out the tune that was
overwhelmingly the favorite. It was "The Yan-
kee Consul" music that was played repeatedly
last year by the bands, with an occasional in-
terval of "Bluebell." The spring before it was
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MADCAP PRINCESS
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ISLE OF SPICE
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Published by
JOS. W. STERN & CO.,
34 East 21st St., New York
CHICAGO
LONDON
SAN FRANCISCO
POPULAR SONG
HITS
" Lights of Home," "Just a Picture of You," " M y Sun-
burnt Lily," "They All Spoke Well of You," by the
noted writers, Al. Trahern and Lee Orean Smith.
C. L. PARTEE MUSIC CO.
23 East 20th Street
New York City