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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
A ballad of love and Spring and robins will in
a few days be an appropriate and timely issue
from the house of Chas. K. Harris. Its title is
to be "It's Always June When You're in Love."
That it will have a promising start is assured by
the well-known efficiency of the Harris profes-
sional and distributing forces. New Harris bal-
lads always arouse interest among professionals
and the trade, for the very good reason that in
the past some of the most popular ballads in the
country have been issued from the house of this
publisher-composer. The lyrics of the latest Har-
ris ballad are graceful and rythmic. The chorus,
copyrighted, 1910, by Chas. K. Harris, runs as
follows, the refrain being in waltz time:
It's always June when you're in love
And she's in love with you.
For June was made for honey bees
And roses wet with dew.
No wint'ry day, up clouds of gray
Can change a love that's true—
It's always June when you're in love
And she's in love with you.
"Happy Nights," the new two-step published by
Jerome H. Remick & Co., has been made the
subject of a display of verbal pyrotechnics by
Mose Gumble's professional department, which
has touched off the following rhetorical sky-
rockets: "Did you ever hear spicy music? It has
csme. Maurice Levi wrote it. You will sit up
and listen when you hear it. It's a feet agitator.
It has a haunting, stay-with-you melody, and
when the Remick coterie say they are going to
make a hit it's all over with the 'can't do it'
bunch. Oh, yes, the name: 'Happy Nights Two-
Step,' original also with Levi. He and his band
had packed houses on their last tour. Ever see
a prairie fire? 'Happy Nights' will be one."
Henry I. Marshall, assistant general manager
of Shapiro's, has just completed a novelty song
which Katherine Miley, who has scored a distinct
success as a singing comedienne, is to sing at a
local vaudeville theater next week. The name of
the song is withheld until then. The number
will be published by Shapiro.
Shapiro is sending out a talk on "confidence"
to the trade this month. "Confidence is the first
rule of business," he says, and goes on to tell
about the "confidence givers" which his house is
offering. "We have learned by experience that
our patrons have the utmost confidence in certain
writers," he continues. "And they are right in
maintaining this stand. We have been taught
this by our customers and we thank them. This
month, therefore, we have gotten together nine
numbers by the greatest popular song writers the
country has ever known." Among the new Shap-
iro numbers cited as "confidence givers" are
"Good Bye, Rose," by Addison Burkhart and Her-
bert lngraham; "My Black Eyed Susan," by
George (Honey Boy) Evans; "George Cohan Rag,"
by Geo. M. Cohan; "Schlitz," a German beer song,
by Harry Breen and Fred Fisher; "Moonlight
Molly O," by Edward Madden and Dorothy Jar-
don; "Darkey Moon," by Stanley Murphy and
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Jones & Deeley; and "Gee, But You're a Wonderful
Girl," by Edgar Leslie and Al. Piantadosi.
Not to be outdone on the "Chantecler" craze,
the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. have
published a new song which involves a distinctly
original idea along this line. It is "The White
Folks Call It Chantecler, But It's Just Plain
Chicken to Me." The title is a laugh in itself,
and the Von Tilzer house proves again that it
intends to be outranked by none in the matter of
producing novelty numbers.
songs for Eddie Foy, who accepted both a t the
first hearing.
THAT Joseph M. Gaites and the Witmarks are
to provide new backing for "The Seventh Daugh-
ter" and that rehearsals will soon proceed in
Chicago.
THAT increasing business has compelled Joe
Harris, the Chicago manager for Chas. K. Harris,
to rent another suite of offices in the Grand
Opera House Building in that city.
THAT "Cubanola Glide," which is played on a
harp in a vaudeville act, is the first novelty
number to achieve that distinction this season.
THAT a man and woman in a sketch at the
Tivoli in London have been "putting over" a
popular song, written in Russian for the Rus-
THAT the North star continues to attract local sians, that is expected to develop into a hit.
music publishers, so far as Broadway is con- THAT on May 22 "The Midnight Sons" (Har-
cerned.
ris) will complete a run of a year without inter-
THAT with the coming removal of the E. T. ruptions, and on the afternoon of that day the
Paull Music Co. to Forty-second street the end of women of the company will play the men's parts,
Twenty-eighth street's halcyon days as a popular while the mere men will essay the feminine
music center for many publishers has come.
roles.
THAT publishers are by no means a unit in
hoping that the Woolworth stores will establish RECITAL OF WITMARK SONGS GIVEN.
sheet music departments.
THAT if these stores should insist on selling Selections from Standard Catalog of That Firm
music at five cents a copy and not at ten, those
Sung by Pupils of Joseph Baernstein-Regneas.
publishers who are now "rooting" for the re-
ported move would decide that they had been
The pupils of Joseph Baernstein-Regneas, one
altogether too hasty.
of New York's most prominent vocal teachers,
THAT the biggest hit in Willa Holt Wakefield's gave a notable recital on the afternoon of Thurs-
act in local vaudeville is a song at least five or day, March 17. On this occasion the program
six years old—"He's My Pal."
was composed exclusively of standard songs se-
THAT as the half dozen or so other songs she lected from the catalog of M. Witmark & Sons.
sings at each performance are all new, further The recital took place at Mr. Baernstein-Regneas'
proof is given that publishers nowadays are too large and beautiful studios, which were complete-
deeply immersed in a state of perpetual hurry.
ly filled. The titles of the songs which were
THAT Burt Green has developed into a first heard on this occasion, and the names of those
class "plugger," his efforts in this line being who sang them, are as follows:
devoted to "Red Head Rag," while waiting for
Miss Cleo Gascoigne, soprano—"Awake, 'Tis the
Irene Franklin to change costumes.
Dawn" (Annie Andros Hawley) ; "Could I Love
THAT the publisher, Leo. Feist, thus gets some Thee More?" (Reed Miller); "My Sweetheart's
real benefit while he, too, waits—for the other Only Three" (Eleanor Kent).
songs to be released.
Mrs. Stephen Maley, soprano—"Gay Butterfly"
THAT there have been some weird song titles (Annie Andros Hawley); "All the World Sings
concocted this season, but "Moonface" looms up Summer" (Sadie Harrison); "0, Wondrous Night
as the bright particular champion.
in June" (Fleta Jan Brown).
THAT in a parody the use of "Moonface" as a
Miss Flora Moran, soprano—"Du Blst Wie Eine
term of endearment might bring a laugh where Blume" (Joseph Heinus).
the song was really expected to be funny.
Mme. Sara Anderson, soprano—"Who Knows?"
THAT Daisy Harcourt offers $25 reward for (Ernest R. Ball); "Lily of the Valley" (Reed
proof of anyone using her songs. A bit stingy, Miller); "I Gave a Rose to You" (Arthur A.
but it allows her to say "thieves" and "pirates." Penn).
THAT "Tillie's Nightmare" (Harris) is sched-
Andrea Sarto, baritone—"Wild Rose," "My
uled for a New York opening in the near fu- Dear," "In the Garden of My Heart" (Ernest R.
ture.
Ball); "A Ki?s" (Harry Patterson Hopkins);
THAT Jerome and Schwartz, author and com- "Toreadors Love Song" (G. J. Couchois); "Come
poser of "Bedelia," and, more recently, of Back" (Ernest R. Ball).
various Remick successes, have written two new
A feature of the recital was the singing by the
well-known dramatic soprano, Sara Anderson, of
Ernest R. Ball's ballad, "Who Knows," as a
special compliment to the composer, who accom-
panied her. It is needless to say that this num-
ber was particularly well received, although all
"MOLLY LEE"
"KITTY GRAY"
were rendered in excellent taste, and showed the
"HE'S A COLLEGE BOY"
splendid training of Mr. Baernstein-Regneas.
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