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THE
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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
HAWAIIAN MUSIC IN THE WEST
NEW FEISTJDANCE FOLIO
HE HAD A LOT OF SENSE
Wonderful Demand for That Class of Music
Still Continues, Declares Edward P. Little,
Who Is on a Trip Through the East
Leo Feist, Inc., has prepared a new dance
folio which contains a numb.er.of the recent
Feist hits, carefully arranged as dance music.
The list of selections in the new volume is as
follows: One-step, "Mother"; waltz, "When
You're in Love with Someone"; fox-trot, "You'd
Never Know That Old Home Town of Mine";
one-step, "Come Back Dixie"; fox-trot, "Those
Good Old Days Back Home"; march, two-step,
"In the Glory of the Moonlight"; one-step, "Nor-
way*'; one-step, "Beatrice Fairfax"; fox-trot,
"You Can't Get Along With 'Em or Without
Em"; one-step, "Sweet Cider Time"; one-step,
"Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You"; one-
step, "Siam"; one-step, "There's a Broken Heart
for Every Light on Broadway"; waltz, "Valse
Celestia"; one-step, "Wake Up, America."
By E. F. Mclntyre
There was an old geezer and he had a lot of
sense. He started up a business on a dollar-
Edward P. Little, manager of the sheet music
eighty cents. The dollar for stock, and the
department of Sherman, Clay Co., San Fran-
eighty for an ad brought him three lovely dol-
cisco, struck New York the other day on an ex-
lars in a day, by dad!
tensive business trip, and reports big doings
Well, he bought more goods and a little more
in the West on Hawaiian music. Sherman, Clay
space, and he played that system with a smile
are pushing this increasingly popular vogue in
on his face.
music, and indications are that the Hawaiian
The customers flocked to his two-by-four and
craze is backed up by a genuine public appre-
soon he had to hustle for a regular store. Up
ciation. The two biggest sellers now are "On
on the square, where the people pass, he gobbled
the Beach at Waikiki," and "Aloha Oe," the lat-
up a corner that was all plate glass. He fixed
ter written by Queen Liliuokalani, but several
up the windows with the best that he had and
newer songs are coming along very fast, among
told them all about in a half page ad.
them, "My Honolulu Tomboy," by "Sonny"
He soon had 'em coming and he never, never
Cumha; "Drowsy Waltzes," by Jack Ailau; "She
quit, and he wouldn't cut down on his ads, one
Sang 'Aloha Oe' to Me," by Joseph B. Carey,
jit. And he's kept things humping in the town
NEW CHAPPELL SONG SUCCESS
and "Fair Hawaii," by J. F. Kuntz. Henry
ever since, and everybody calls him the Mer-
Kailimai, who wrote the music of "On the Report has it that the comparatively new chant Prince.
Beach," has turned out three more excellent Chappell song, "Laddie in Khaki," is proving so
Some say it's luck, but that's all bunk—why
popular that there is danger of not one, but sev- he was doing business when the times were
Hawaiian songs.
Sherman, Clay have seized the opportunity eral additional printings. This number rouses punk!
to publish three books of practical, authorita- a patriotic sentiment, not so much by a sudden
People have to purchase and Geezer was wise
tive instruction on the playing and singing of stirring appeal to the surface emotions, as by a —for he knew the way to get 'em was to adver-
Hawaiian music. These are "A Practical Method more substantial appeal of good music.
tise.—Associated Advertising.
of Self-Instruction on the Ukulele," by N. B.
Bailey; "Ukulele Solos," edited by Bailey and
Keoki E. Awai, and "The Peterson System of
Playing the Guitar with Steel," edited by Bailey.
WARERO0MS, 6 0 5 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
A circumstance which aids materially in selling FACTORY AND OFFICES, NEW HAVEN. CONN.
these books is the association of the name
Bailey, with "Old Bill Bailey," who played the
Progressive dealers have
ukulele in the recent popular song. It's not the
found them to be most
same man.
profitable.
Mr. Little says that James Casey, who wrote
FACTORY, Southern Boulevard and Trinity Avenue, NEW YORK
the one-time big success, "Sing Me a Song of the
Sunny South," is selling thousands of copies of
the Hawaiian songs in his Echo Music Store,
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