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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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'TWAS A GREAT GAME OF BALL
Music Publishers and Dealers Prove That Hits
on the Diamond Are Easier Made Than Hits
in the Regular Line of Business
At the animal outing of the Greater New
York Publishers' and Music Dealers' Associa-
tion held at Glenwood, L. 1., last week, the
ball ^amc proved to be the most entertaining
affair on the program.
The final score of the game, 20 for the El-
lerts, and 19 for
the G. Fischer's,
shows in itself that
the game was thor-
oughly fought from
start to finish. The
Fischer's f o u g h t
bravely to over-
come the advan-
tage their oppo-
nents had gained
near the close of
the
s i x inning
game.
Walter
Eastman, a mem-
ber of the Fischer's,
who claimed it was
his first game of
H. L. Dupont and L. El- ball, proceeded to
lert, Winning Battery
raise a doubt on
that score when he hammered the ball to
different
parts of the lot, his batting
average for the day being a little over five
hundred. Michael Keane, in a belated effort
Some of the Ball Players
to bolster up the score of his team,
stole several bases, but only succeeded in
raising his season's average. It was thought
SOME OF OUR SUCCESSES
"There's a Rose in Old Erin
That's Blooming for Me"
"I Ain't Got Nobody and Nobody
Cares lor Me"
"Only You," Waltz Song
"O Those Blues"
" I Love the Name of Dixie "
"You Are the Image of Mother,
That's Why I Love You"
" One Wonderful Night"
" In the Land of Love with the
Songbirds "
" O, How 1 Want You "
" Sing Me the Rosary "
" La Danza Appassionata "
(Passion Dance), Fox Tango
"La Seduccion," Fox Tango
" Tambourines and Oranges "
Fox Trot
by many that the battery of Weippert and
Roach would have won the game if they had
been given proper support in the earlier innings.
Jerome Keit substituted for G. Fischer at first
base at the end of the fifth inning and played
the initial sack creditably.
Weippert tried
hard to win his own game, making several very
hard drives, including a home run, which
proved to be one of the longest hits of the
day.
Among those who attended the outing were the
following: H. L. Dupont, John Blaetz, C. A. Kel-
ler, C. T. Fischer, W. H. Kretschmcr, F. Kraft,
B. Welling, E. L. Hoffman, J. A. Glassmacher,
Vic Kewell, Walter Vaughn, Robt. H. Cowdrill,
Hamilton A. Gordon, V. D. Walsh, B. N. Beck,
W. A. Walling, Wm. R. Teller, Louis Weippert,
F. Gray, J. T. Roach, Geo. Fischer, Walter
Eastman, Jerome Keit, Maurice Richmond, C.
C. Church, A. J. Stasny, A. W. Barbelle, Michael
Keane, J. A. Cantor, Lawrence Ellert and Wm.
Fort.
JEROME H.RElilCK&CO.S
^Sensational Son^ Hits
"On the Old Dominion Line"
' I n 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"
A. J. STASNY CO. OPENS OFFICES
Has Interesting Catalog of Songs and Instru-
mental Numbers Ready for Market
The A. J. Stasny Music Co. is now located
in its new quarters at 56 West Forty-fifth
street, New York. The new home is one of
the best appointed publishing offices in the
country and has every modern facility for car-
rying on office work efficiently.
The catalog of the Stasny Co. has several
numbers that are at present having good sales,
among them being: "I Found You Among the
Roses," "Why Should I Give My Heart to You?"
"Where Rolls the Oregon" and "Rose Dreams,"
a vocal and instrumental number that is being
well received. The last number is written by
Mr. Stasny himself. A beautiful Hawaiian song
published by the company is called "Luana, My
Hawaiian Queen."
The Stasny Co. will shortly have for deliv-
ery a catalog of 30-cent song numbers for the
better trade, which will also include several
25-cent instrumental numbers.
Among the
songs that will be seen in the above catalog
will be: "Just a Kiss," with music written by
Geo. A. Regg, Jr., and words by Con Berth;
"One Happy Day," and "That's Why I Call You
Dear," are also included. One of the best in-
strumental pieces in the new catalog will be
"Dance of the Wood Nymphs," described as an
instrumental dance caprice.
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JEROME H. REM1CK & CO.
ZI9 WEST 4 6 " S T . Nra^bm CITY |B7 WEST FORT ST.DETW>rr|ftuESTic Mm. DLMCHICAOO
VARIOUS HIT=MAKING SYSTEMS
Different Publishers, All Successful, Have Own
Methods for Putting Songs Over
There are gentlemen in the music publishing
business who will tell you with all the earnest-
ness of conviction that chance and the lucky
hit has a thousand times more to do with suc-
cess or failure than any amount of business
acumen. On the other hand, there are gentle-
men of equal experience who will tell you with
equal conviction that the business faculty can
build success where potential hits might never
earn half the popularity they deserved on merit.
There are music publishers who have built up
big business on the trade instinct that can put
things over if they are reasonably good, whether
or not their instrinsic merit strikes a high level.
Advertising and capalje management seem re-
sponsible for such commercial success. Houses
that develop thus put out hits that might push
themselves into the front rank anyhow; but
they also boost numbers that on their actual
merits might lie in living death on dusty shelves.
The selling of thousands of copies of these lat-
ter is not an injustice to the public, which buys
them often because the titles have become
familiar to the ear. No one is obliged to buy a
popular song.
NEW SAM FOX CO. PUBLICATIONS
Then there are other successful publishers
who have developed on the basis of hits or
Three New Numbers of Unusual Interest Issued nothing—as nearly as possible to the rather un-
By Cleveland House
certain nature of music publishing in general.
Possibly if we are to analyze and pick the popu-
Among the latest publications of the Sam Fox
lar music business to pieces, we would award
Publishing Co., Cleveland, O., each supplied
the medal to the second class of publisher;
with a title page of the unusual and attractive
but a good look behind the scenes might con-
sort such as characterizes the Fox Co.'s publi- vince us that this hit-or-nothing man would take
cations, are an "Operatic Nightmare," composed a chance pushing the doubtful song if he were
by Felix Arndt and known as "A Rag Classic" confident in his backing or wanted to take the
or "Desecration No. 2"; "Simplicity," a delight- well-known sporting chance. Business is said
ful number for the piano by Dorothy Lee, com- to be business. Hits are hits, once in a while.
poser of "One Fleeting Hour," and a reverie The only answer to the frequently repeated
called "Aloha Sunset Land" by loane Kawelo, question "How is it done?" is this: It is done
which is also offered in the form of a song with by selling to the public what the public wants,
words by J. R. Shannon.
thinks it wants, or can be persuaded to think
it wants; and if the public keeps on buying what
it has been persuaded to think it wants rather
BERGMAN IN BANKRUPTCY
Rudolph Bergman, of 160 West Eighty- than what it really wants, why, leave that to
seventh street, New York, formerly treasurer the psychological-conscience-business-ethics ex-
of the National Society of Music, and president perts. Any man has a- right to sell popular
of the Bergman & Harris Publishing Co., has music if he can. Once he succeeds in selling
filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities a lot of it, he is termed a successful publisher.
Is there any one in the audience who will ad-
of $6,000 and assets of $253.
vance any theories, criticisms or suggestion on
How It Is Done?
ADDITIONS TO CENTURY CATALOG
The Century Music Publishing Co. will have
its latest additions to its catalog ready for de-
livery on September 1. The new additions in-
clude piano solos, violin and piano, piano duets
and vocal numbers, in all covering a wide range
of compositions.
The Hardc Publishing Co., Inc., New York,
has been incorporated with capital stock of
$10,(XX) for the purpose of publishing and circu-
lating folk songs of all nations. The incorpora-
tors are :. C. A. Oberwager, H. Huessler and H.
Mueller, all of New York.
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