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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THREE FINE B00SEY & CO. SONGS
Ballads of the Better Order That Are Being
Featured by Such Artists as John McCor-
mack Included in Catalog of This House
At the present time Boosey & Co., New
York, prominent publishers of the better class
of music, have a number of unusually interest-
ing songs, the sales of which are influenced not
alone by their intrinsic value, but by the fact
that they are being featured by various promi-
nent concert artists. What is referred to as a
companion song to the great success "I Hear
You Calling Me," is "Mauvis," a song by L. A.
Lefevre and Harold Craxton, which occupies
a prominent place in the repertoire of John Mc-
Cormack, as does "What Shall I Say?" for
which Gerald Grayling composed the music
and Edward Teschmacher supplied the words.
A particular pleasing number in the Boosey
catalog is "When My Ships Come Sailing
Home," music by Francis Dorel and words by
Reginald Stewart. These are only three of
the numerous good things in the present Boosey
& Co. catalog.
"PRETTY BABT' GOING BIG
MUSIC PUBLISHER SUES BACKER
Bergman Asks Injunction on Sale of His Work
by Holder of His Notes for $25,000
The National Society of Music, Inc., filed suit
in the Supreme Court last week for an injunc-
tion against Clayton E. Bailey and others to re-
strain them from disposing of the books and
plates for "The Art of Music."
Rudolph Bergman, president of the society,
alleges he arranged with Bailey to borrow
$25,000 to publish the former's life work, for
which notes and the copyright on the book were I
given to Bailey. After Bailey advanced $22,0001
he stopped and foreclosed on the note, accord-
ing to Bergman. The property was then sold
and bid in by Bailey and his associates, says the
complaint.
Bergman claims "The Art of Music" is worth
$150,000, that $9,000 worth of the books have
already been subscribed for, and asks for a
receiver for the property.
^Sensational Son^ H i t s /
"On the Old Dominion Line"
"In Old Brazil' 1
"Down Honolulu Way"
"Welcome, Honey, to your Old
Plantation Home"
"The Whole World Loves a Lover"
"And They Called it Dixieland"
"Come Back to Arizona"
"Underneath the Stars"
"You'll Always be the same
Sweet Baby To Me"
"They Didn't Believe Me"
"On Lake Champlain"
"Memories"
"My Dreamy China Lady"
"You'll Find a Little Bit of
Ireland Everywhere"
NEED FOR A NATIONAL SONG
Some Music of a Native Character Needed to
Replace the "Star-Spangled Banner," Declares
One Writer—Tired of Patriotic Music of
Foreign Flavor and Cheap Sentiment
One of the big hits of the "Passing Show of
1916," now playing at the Winter Garden, is
In a letter to the New York Times Jennie L.
"Pretty Baby," published Chadwick, of Park Ridge, N. J., had some in-
by Jerome H. Remick & teresting comments to make upon the desira-
Co. This song is also be- bility of the new patriotic song for the United
ing used with equal suc- States. She said:
cess in "A World of
"Are we forever to be saddled with a national
Pleasure," which is hav- anthem that is of foreign make, that is unsing-
ing an extended run in able because of its extreme range of notes, that
Chicago. The lyrics are fails, therefore, in the first essentials of a patri-
by Gus Kahn and the otic song? 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is in-
music by Tony Jackson spiring when we hear it played, but it is next
and Egbert Van Alstyne. This song is proving to impossible for the- average person to sing it.
to be one of the best sellers of the summer The melody was once an old English drinking
song, and as- such is musically unsuited and
season.
from an aesthetic standpoint unfit for patriotic
purposes. It is not constructed for mass sing-
NEW SONG BY_ERNEST R. BALL
ing.
'My Country 'Tis of Thee,' as most per-
The Jatest effort of Ernest R. Ball and J.
Kcirn - % Brennan, the writers of "Good-Bye, sons appreciate, is a rather weak poem set
Good-Luck, God Bless You" and "A Little Bit to a foreign tune, and therefore does not fill
of Heaven," is a song called "Turn Back the the bill.
Universe and Give Me Yesterday." The pro- "The question arises: What is necessary for
fessional copies for this number have already the adoption of a song by the people of the
been released and M. Witmark & Sons, the United States as a national air? Mere govern-
publishers, claim that it is already receiving mental approval without popular petition would
be vain. If we wait for a song to be 'born of
favorable attention.
the occasion' we will have no better music than
'Tipperary' or 'Yankee Doodle;' if it must be
strictly 'in the spirit of the times' it will be-
The "Best" Is Always the "Cheap-
come
a monotonous relic a decade hence.
est"—Still 200 Per Cent Profit!
"Our national anthem should be good music
—not only inspiring in melody and harmony,
Do you belong to the big army of
but dignified in workmanship and, above all,
Satisfied Dealers that handles so
set to a noble poem. The lines of 'The Star-
Spangled Banner,' because of their local char-
profitably the
acter and queer phraseology in spots, fall far
below the standard. What a mouthing sentence
for a lyric: 'Whose broad stripes and bright
stars,' to which must be added 'thro' the per-
ilous night, o'er the ramparts we watched, were
so gallantly streaming.' ?
"Although there are many attempts to pro-
vide a new national anthem, most of the con-
tributions are very feeble. Either the verse is
idle, with a familiar setting of rocks and rills,
sentimental stuff, or purely imitative, or the
music lacks the qualities of spiritedness and
permanency. One evening at a concert at the
Waldorf-Astoria given by the Schumann Club
of New York I witnessed the strange sight of
an entire audience rising during the singing of
All of the Best Reprints and more
a patriotic American song. Apparently a new
Big' Selling Copyrights than any
composition, it was the most inspiring tribute
I have ever heard. I should like to know more
other 10 Cent Edition.
of this thrilling song, and I wonder why its use
Better Music, Better Paper, Better Titles
is evidently restricted to hoiol concerts.
"If it is true, as modern music authorities
Free catalogues with stock orders. We pay
inform us. that talent in this country is as great
for your advertising. Our music is as staple
as in Hurope, why cannot it produce that first
as wheat.
Write for samples.
ami simple requisite, a good national anthem;
or, if it has actually been written, why cannot
Chicago McKINLEY MUSIC CO. New York
all be privileged to hear it and to learn it? In
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these troubled days, when the sterner emotions
are felt to the ends of the earth, and when our
own country is war-threatened, perhaps a song
as good as those of other lands will come to
us."
ENTER, A NEWJRISH SONG
A new song called "Ireland Must Be Heaven,
Because My Mother Came from There," from
the pens of Howard Johnson and Joe McCarthy,
has been received so favorably that the pro-
fessional staff of Leo Feist believe they have
got another winner. Chas. Brice, of the team of
Brice and King, is now using it in his new single
act, and the number of professionals that have
made application to do so shows that it is due
to receive more than passing notice.
TO ESTABLISH UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC
Mrs. May Tait Keon, a wealthy New York
society woman, who was a close friend of Lil-
lian Nordica, is reported to have secured a site
at Harmon, N. Y., for the establishment of an
American University of Music. This project
was strongly urged by Mine. Nordica during
her life. The site and buildings which have
been secured are together said to be worth
$150,000.
LEAVES ON WESTERN TRIP
Chas. R. Warfel, traveling representative for
Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, Inc., left on July
17 for a trip through the entire West. Mr.
Warfel will call on dealers in every locality and
will not return until the latter part of Oc-
tober.
SUCCESS ON JXWCERT TOUR
Walter J. Pond, the blind composer, who
wrote "We're All For Uncle Sam," has written
to the publishers of the above number, the
estate of Hamilton S. Gordon, that his song has
met with favor on the concert tours he is now
making through Connecticut.
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1547 Broadway
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VALSE SUBLIME
Great Waltz Hit
FLOWERLAND WALTZES
W. C. Powell's 1915 Hit
SPRING TIME REVERIE
Fine Teaching Piece
BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF ERIN
Big Song Hit