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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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E. T. PAULL CO. BUYS OLD SONG
SAYS AMERICANS ARE SENTIMENTAL
"SUWANEE RIVER" CHEERS TROOPS
Weil-Known Music Publishers Secure Rights
to "Say Au Revoir, But Not Good-bye"
Emmerich Kalman, the Composer, Declares
Fact is Proven by His Own Experience and
by the Class of Music That Is Popular Here
First Contingent of American Soldiers in France
Led to Their Camp to the Strains of Old
Melody Played by Sixteenth Infantry Band
The E. T. Paull Music Co. announced this
week that they had purchased the rights to
Harry Kennedy's old-time ballad success, "Say
Au Revoir, But Not Good-bye," which, although
written nearly twenty-five years ago, is still
fresh in the minds of many people.
The Paull Co. is now preparing a new edition
of this famous song, with music revised and
brought up-to-date by E. T. Paull, and it is felt
that in its application to present day condi-
tions the tenor of the song should serve to re-
vive its popularity. The new words by Maud
Kennedy Wilbert, daughter of Harry Kennedy,
refer to a soldier leaving for the front and bid-
ding farewell to his sweetheart, and the theme
of "Say Au Revoir, But Not Good-bye" is
cleverly worked in. In view of the revival of
other ballads of former days, s the prospects for
"Say Au Revoir, But Not Good-bye" are bright.
According to Emmerich Kalman, composer
The power of music in war has seldom been
of "Sari," "Her Soldier Boy" and other suc- more graphically described than by Robert
cesses, the frequent statement that Americans Davis, a Red Cross representative, in a speech
as a class are not inclined to be sentimental is at a luncheon of the Merchants' Association of
disproved by his own experiences as well as by New York last week in which, while describing
the class of American music that is most in the landing of the first American troops in
demand. In a recent letter to the Shuberts France, he said:
"Their uniforms were brown, their faces, were
Mr. Kalman wrote:
"I have always been told that you Americans covered with dust and sunburn, and then, by
are so practical a people that you have no time one of those exquisite chances—more exquisite
for sentiment. Indeed, a very good American than some of our own division—the leader of
friend of mine has recently told me with some that Sixteenth Infantry Band, as he turned into
heat that Americans despise sentiment and sen- the field to take up the business on the conti-
timentalists. He advised* me, therefore, to omit nent of Europe, began to play 'Suwanee River,'
all sentimental themes in my music intended for the one tune that we Americans can be trusted
the American public and to instruct the libret- to know by heart wherever we meet around the
tists who work for me to do likewise. I am globe. And they all sung, these young re-
indeed sorry to disagree with this opinion, but cruits, three-fourths of them of less than three
months' standing. Most of them had been down
T must.
"History has made it perfectly clear that, in- South with Pershing—men recruited from
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Will Handle Publications of E. T. Paull Music stead of detesting sentiment, Americans are the And they came in singing:
most
sentimental
of
all
peoples.
They
may
in-
Co., After January 1, 1918
When shall I hear the bees a-luiniming,
herit this from their dominant blood strain,
When shall I hear the banjos strumming,
The E. T. Paull Music Co., New York, an- which is, of course, British, or it may be due
Far from the old folks at home?"
nounce that they have appointed the Plaza Music to the admixture of races, the climate, or a
Co., 18 West Twentieth street, New York, as dozen other causes.
general distributor for the sale of all the Paull
"What is true is that Americans are genuinely
NEW MUSICAL_SHOWS COMING
publications, the new arrangement to become sentimental, highly, positively, overwhelmingly
Among
the new musical comedies opening out
effective on January 1.
sentimental, but they conceal this fact by every o"f town and which will be seen in New York
The E. T. Paull Co. catalog is an especially device. Therein is their only fundamental dif- later in the season are: "Say When" by Bolton,
valuable one, in that it contains a great number ference from the people of, say, my native Kern and Wodehouse; "Girl of Mine" by Philip
of standard steady selling instrumental pieces Budapest. We are frankly sentimental, and we Bartholomew, with music by Frank Tours, and
of the popular type, issued in attractive form.
are not ashamed to admit it.
"Here's Looking at You" by Bolton, Kern and
E. T. Paull, head of the company, has long
"If you doubt my correctness consider your Wodehouse.
been prominent throughout the country as a popular songs, always an admirable index of
composer of march compositions. He entered the true emotions of the masses. What are the
Consult the universal Want Directory of
the field twenty-three years ago, and since that themes of the songs that have the greatest pop-
The
Review. In it advertisements are inserted
time has contributed many notable marches, ular appeal? Songs of sentiment, frankest sen-
among them: "The Ben Hur Chariot Race," timent! Home, mother, sweetheart—these are free of charge for men who desire positions.
"Burning of Rome," "Xapoleon's Last Charge," the notes that strike home the most deeply,
THREE WONDERFUL BALLADS
"Midnight Fire Alarm," "Battle of the Nations," even, I will say especially, in America."
"Battle of Gettysburg," etc.
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
"ATEAR,AKISS,ASMILE"
"THAT'S WHY MY
HEART IS CALLING YOU"
"THE KINGDOMOF MY HEART"
Winn's Practical Method of
Popular Music
and Ragtime Piano Playing
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Book No. 2
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