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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
A BALLAD THATJiAS MADE GOOD.
MUCH INTEREST IN FEIST CAMPAIGN.
"Sweet Kentucky Lady," One of the Leading
Numbers of the Witmark Catalog, Being Fea-
tured Prominently in Vaudeville.
Featuring of Free Pictures with Music Makes
Strong Appeal to Dealers,
The special campaign advertised in The Review
We reproduce herewith the title page of one of last week by Leo Feist, Inc., for the purpose of
the ballad successes of the season, "Sweet Ken- creating a demand for the dealer for the two late:t
tucky Lady, Dry Your Eyes," which has been fea- numbers published .by that house, "Down Among
tured strongly and with excellent results by the the Sheltering Palms" and "If We Can't Be t'.ie
Same Old Sweethearts," has met with an unusual
publishers, M. Witmark & Sons. The lyrics, from
the pen of William Jerome, are among the best amount of interest from the trade, and the demand
ever turned out by that popular writer, and the for the music and the special pictures to accompany
same has been of sufficient volume to wipe out the
music, by Louis Hirsch, is also unusually good.
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first
supply and necessitate the hurried ordering of
Among the many prominent vaudeville acts
using "Sweet Kentucky Lady" are Jack Wilson more pictures and also music.
The dealers realize that the music and the pic-
tures alone should serve to create a local demand
for the music without counting on the back-cover
advertisement in The Natonal Sunday Magazine,
at a cost of $-5,000, and which will appear in con-
nection with leading newspapers in all sections of
the country on Sunday, May 10.
Attractive cards bearing the titles of the songs
featured and copies of the p'ctures that will go
wit l them have been prepared by the Feist house
and sent to dealers interested in the campaign for
use fur window and counter displays.
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MYSTERY IN_FREE MUSIC.
Young Man Who Claims to Represent Big New
York Publisher, but Doesn't, Discovers 100
Copies of Big Hit to Oblige Store Manager.
and company, Rill Priutt, the "Cowboy Caruso";
Marx Bros., Lady Sen Mai. the Chinese prima
donna; Al G. Fields' Greater Minstrels; Grace
Fisher, George Evans' Seven Honey 'Boys and
others.
The eminent composer, Alexander Nicholaevich
Scriabin* died in Moscow April 27 from blood poi-
soning. Scriabin was born in 1S72 in Moscow and
was the prize pupil of Moscow Conservatory in
1892. He made a long tour as a pianist later, but in
1003 gave up this work and devoted his time to
composing.
McKINLEY SUCCESSES
SONG HITS
One Wonderful Night (You Told Me
You Loved Me)
The Kiss That Made You Mine
Roll Along, Harvest Moon
In the Evening by the Moonlight in Dear
Old Tennessee
I'll Return Mother Darling to You
The Hours I Spent With Thee
They All Sang "Annie Laurie"
Sing Me the Rosary
In Honolulu by the Sea
I Long to Hear the Old Church Choir
Again
Sue of the Cumberlands
DANCE SUCCESSES
Original Fox Trot (Klickman)
Daddy Long Legs Hesitation Waltz
Dream Waltz from "Tales of Hoffmann"
One Wonderful Night Hesitation Waltz
Hesitation Waltz (Klickman)
Publishers of the
"FAMOUS McKINLEY TEN CENT MUSIC"
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
Chicago
New York
A certain ten-cent store in the .Middle West,
handling sheet music in quantities, has had a hun-
dred copies of a very popular number for which
no bill has been received and probably will not be
received, and there is a young man connected with
the case that makes for a real mystery.
The young man in question entered the ten-cent
store and stated that he represented a prominent
New York music publisher. The manager wel-
comed the visitor with open arms for he needed
a hundred copies of a song published by that par-
ticular house imm;diately. The visitor went out
and soon came back with the desired copies and
then disappeared. Inquiry proved that the young
man had no connection with the publisher he was
supposed to represent and there was no record of
extra copies being sent to the store. The result was
that someone apparently was out 100 copies of
music. The "salesman" received no money and
asked no favors of the ten-cent store manager
and just where his profit came in on the deal is
still a mystery.
*
The number of men who are going about the
country representing themselves as agents for pub-
lishers is surprisingly large and once in a while,
where he is too active, one of them is caught, but
the vacancy is soon filled.
TWENTY=FIVE_YEARS MARRIED.
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., May 3.—It is of more than pass-
ing interest to chron'cle the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the marriage of Banks M. Davison and
Mrs. Davison, which occurred recently. In honor
of the occasion Mr. Davison was presented with a
watch by his wife. The watch was su'tably en-
graved with the initials "B. M. D.," being accom-
panied by a monogramed charm. Mr. Davison is
well known in the music pub'ishing field through
his association with the White-Smith Music Pub-
lishing Co.
SAINT=SAENS^]N AMERICA.
Camille Saint-Saens, the distinguished composer,
arrived late this week from France. He will visit
the Panama-Pacific Exposition and will conduct a
spec'al "omposit : on which he has written in honor
of America. He will also act as a representative
ONE MILLION COPIES
will be told of these 3 big instrumental hits. We picked
then as our "Big" ones for 1915 and we are going after
"good and forte." You know what that means.
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SILVER FOX
FOX TROT
An instantaneous sure fire Raggy Fox Trot I
hit by Henry Lodge. We are having ealls for
it everywhere.
A LA CARTE
ONE STEP
Abe Holzroann's jingling, tingling, ringir
one step. A sensational instrumental nunsoe
GERALDINE
VALSE HESITATION
The catchiest, most aielodious and charming
waltz published. A musical masterpiece by
Henry Lodge.
JEROME H. REMICK & CO.
THE HOUSE THAT MADE INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC FAMOUS IN AMERICA
.DETROIT, MICH.
NEW YORK, N.
of the Conr'te France-Amerique, which will raise
funds in the United States for sufferers from the
A BUSY BOSTON PUBLISHER.
Walter Jacobs has his hands full these days be-
tween issuing his monthly periodicals and getting
out new music of the popular order. "Stop! Look!
and Listen!" called a railroad fox-trot by Thomas
S. Allen, is one of the latest to be issued from this
house. Two other numbers are "Ken-Tuc-Kec,"
a fox-trot, by A. J. Weindt, and "Got 'Em," a
descriptive march by Thomas S. Allen. "The
Cadenza" each month is full of good things; Hie
latest number including four new piano so'os,
some solos for mandolin orchestra, for banjo anil
guitar.
STANLEY MURPHY'S
TWO LATEST SONG SENSATIONS
ONE LITTLE GIRL LIKE YOU
OK! THAT BEAUTIFUL BAND
MASTERPIECE BALLAD
A SNAPPY RAG SONG
SOME OF OUR OTHER BIG HITS
LOUISIANA ("I'm Coming Back")
A Beautiful Southern Ditty
YOUR DADDY WAS A BASHFUL BEAU
A Wondorful Comady Song With a "Punch"
THE DEAREST GIRL IN THE WORLD
An Appealing Mother Ballad
THE WERBLOW-FISHER GIT.
MUSIC PUBLISHERS
Strand Theatre Building
47th Street and Broadway, N.Y.
PHONE BRYANT 3090