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FEATURING HITS FROM "FOLLIES"
PLAN TO TEACH SOLDIERS TO SING
TANNER WROTE THE FIRST WAR SONG
"That's the Kind of a Baby for Me" Placed in
Production Catalog of Artmusic, Inc.
School to Be Opened in New York to Train
Instructors Who Will in Turn Conduct the
Singing at the Army and Navy Camps
The "Tipperary" of the Soldiers of the Revolu-
tion Just Brought to Light—Original Was
Written on Piece of Leather
There is something new under the sun—even
in music. This time it is one of the most
unique schools in existence, the school which
Harry Barnhart will direct in New York this
winter for the men who are going to conduct
singing in the army and navy camps which have
been established in this country.
The new song leaders are being selected by
Lee F. Hanmer, of the War Department Com-
mission on Training Camp Activities, and their
development for the highly specialized work
for which they are volunteering will take place
at 130 East Twenty-second street, where the
National Committee on Army and Navy Music,
which is co-operating with the War Department
commission, has its headquarters. Methods of
handling large groups of men, songs of the army
and navy, company and regimental singing and
problems relating to the army bands, will be
among the questions which will be given con-
sideration.
Mr. Barnhart took charge of the singing at
Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I., on October 1.
During the summer he conducted songs in the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station and in the
Syracuse mobilization camp. Buffalo and New
York both heard their soldiers sing under Mr.
Barnhart's leadership, in song and light festi-
vals, in which the soldiers and civilians partici-
pated heartily.
As there are in operation this fall sixteen
camps where the men of the new national army
are in training, sixteen camps of the National
Guard, nine officers' training camps, and twenty
mobilization camps of the regular army, in ad-
dition to the naval training stations, it will be
seen that the need for song leaders is much
larger than the supply. Men who feel that they
have the necessary qualifications for this work
should communicate with Mr. Hanmer, who is
heading the committee that is selecting leaders
to serve in this capacity.
A red-headed, wooden-legged psalm singer,
William Billings by name and a tanner by
trad*e, was responsible for America's first war
song, the "Tipperary" of the soldiers of the
Revolution. It has been brought to light re-
cently by Dr. M. L. Bartlett, of Des Moines,
who gives the words of this Revolutionary song
as follows:
One of the most successful numbers in this
year's "Ziegfeld's Follies" show, and one which
is also becoming very much in demand by the
vaudeville artists is "That's the Kind of a Baby
for Me," published by Artmusic, Inc. This
song, from the present outlook, seems destined
to be one of the song hits of the winter sea-
son. Eddie Cantor recently recorded the num-
ber for the Victor Talking Machine Co. and in
many other ways "That's the Kind of a Baby
for 'Me" is showing it is in the hit class. The
Artmusic, Inc., have placed this song in their
"Production Edition."
BACK IN STANDARD CATALOG
Chas. K. Harris to Place "Break the News to
Mother" Among His Standard Numbers
Chas. K. Harris announces that after January
1 "Break the News to Mother" will again be
placed in the standard catalog of the house,
wholesaling at \2y 2 cents. Owing to the pa-
triotic wave that swept over the country on
the declaration of war, Mr. Harris placed the
number in his popular catalog, also giving it
a new title page of very artistic design. It
would appear a number that has been selling
for nearly twenty years should be bought freely
by the dealers at the popular price.
PROVING A STRONG BALLAD
"Are You From Heaven?" Being Featured by
Gilbert & Friedland
The Wolfe Gilbert-Anatol Friedland ballad,
"Are You From Heaven?'' is fast becoming one
of the most popular ballads of the season. Gil-
bert & Friedland have entered the publishing
field by giving the public one of the best songs
they have ever written. The immediate response
this new firm received from the professional
singers speaks much for their personal popu-
larity, as well as for the recognition they enjoy
as successful .song writers.
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
Winn's Practical Method of
Popular Music
and Ragtime Piano Playing
Book N o . 1
Book N o . 2
Standard Numbers that Sell on Sight at
"50% Profit for the Dealer"
A Trial Order From Your Nearest Jobber
Will Convince You
WINN SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC
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62 West 45th Street
NEW YORK
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
8 Bosworth St.,
BOSTON, MASS.
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Correspondence Solicited
Let tyrants shake their iron rod,
And slav'ry clank her galling chains;
We fear them not, we trust in God,
New England's God for evermore.
The foe comes on with haughty stride,
Our troops advance with martial noise;
Their vet'rans flee before our youth,
And gen'rals yield to beardless boys.
What grateful off'rings shall we bring,
What shall we render to the Lord?
Loud hallelujahs let us sing,
And praise His name on ev'ry chord.
Here is Dr. Bartlett's description of the au-
thor of the above song:
"He was a Boston tanner by trade. His hair
was fiery red, standing up straight without part,
order or regulation; besides, he wore a wooden
leg. He was a natural musician with an unerr-
ing instinct for musical form and harmony. He
was running over with piety and patriotism, in-
dependent and conceited. With no musical
education, except such as he picked up here and
there outside of his trade as a tanner, and
without opportunities to acquire one; with no
musical instrument to 'try over' his music;
with clerical opposition to everything that
smacked of buoyancy, rhythm and life, he cer-
tainly accomplished wonders. As Abraham
Lincoln 'ciphered' on the back of a shovel, Wil-
liam Billings worked out his harmonic prob-
lems on a piece of leather."
THREE WONDERFUL BALLADS
"A TEAR, A KISS, A SMILE"
"THAT'S WHY MY
HEART IS CALLING YOU"
"THE KINGDOMJjF MY HEART"
Music b y OTTO MOTZAN
KARCZAG PUB. CO., Inc.
62-64 W. 45tta St., 7th Floor, New York
CHAS.K.HARRIS'
The Song of the Moment
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
(Till the Boys Come Home)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
NEW YORK
Big Ballad Hit
"Love o'Mine"
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The Favorite Song of the National Army
"EB'RY ROSE
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