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THE
MUSIC TRADE
WINN METHODJN DEMAND
REVIEW
THE MIDSUMMER FOX TRAIL
MUSIC AIDS IN RECRUITING
Dealers Evince Growing Interest in This Prac-
tical Method for Piano Playing
Interesting House Organ of Sam Fox Co. Con- Trained Quartet Singing Feist Songs Helps to
tains Some Useful Information
Bring in 600 Recruits for Seventy-first Regi-
ment—Commanding
Officer Writes Letter
The Winn School of Popular Music, 155 West
The midsummer number of The Fox Trail,
125th
street,
New
York,
publishers
of
the
the
lively
house
organ
of
the
Sam
Fox
Publish-
;
The effect of music upon the soldier in train-
"Winn's Practical Method of Popular Music and ing Co., Cleveland, and which is dated to cover ing is well summarized by Lieut. Joseph Bar-
Ragtime Piano Playing," reports the number of the months of July and August, has just been rell, recruiting officer of the Seventy-first Regi-
dealers who have placed these books in stock issued and is a publication that is deserving of ment N. G., N. Y., who said recently: "I would
has been large since the advertising campaign more than passing attention. The main story rather start the boys off with a song than with
started by the firm almost a year ago. The is given over to Geo. A. Reeg, of Volkwein a hearty meal, and although this might sound
larger stores were always in the habit of han- Bros., Pittsburgh, who under the nom de plume strange .to a layman it is, nevertheless, true. I
dling the method, but the action of the Winn of R. G. Adams, has contributed "Dance of the have tried it, and I know what I am talking
Co. in placing the book's with almost every sheet Rain Drops" to the Fox catalog. There is also about. Start the boys, and especially the re-
music jobber in the country has added greatly reproduced an attractive window display of the cruit, with a grouch and the day's work appears
to their means of distribution. The Winn Co. Friedrich Music House, Grand Rapids, Mich., twice as hard. With a song all things seem
furnishes circular matter and offers much in featuring the Fox publication: "Valse Fascina- different, and this I suppose is the psychological
the way of co-operation to the dealer, and this, tion." The Fox Trail also offers the informa- effect of the war song."
together with the fact that the retail profit is tion that Sam Fox and his publicity man, R. O.
Lieut. Barrell and his squad found music a
50 per cent, in handling the publications, makes Weiss, are now on a business trip to the Pacific wonderful aid in bringing in 600 recruits to the
it worth while for every dealer to place them Coast.
regiment since war was declared.
in stock.
Leo Feist, Inc., who has just published
HERBERT AND KERNJO WRITE MUSIC "Good-bye Broadway, Hello France," and
ISSUE "THE KHAKI SONG BOOK"
For the second annual Dillingham-Ziegfeld "Where Do We Go From Here," offered to drill
Oliver Ditson Co. Publishes Volume of Familiar Century Theatre production, which is to be of- a quartet of soldiers for recruiting purposes and
Melodies for Use of Fighting Men
fered next month, the managers have contracted furnish a motor truck, piano and accompanist.
The truck went about the city day and night,
The Oliver Ditson Co. has just issued for the with Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern to write and crowds were attracted at every busy corner.
use of soldiers and sailors "The Khaki Song the score. Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse The quartet would sing the Feist songs, and
.Book," which contains over seventy of the old are at work on the book and lyrics. Lew Fields the recruiting officer would make a short ad-
'familiar songs that are easy to sing, starting is to be one of the comedians.
dress, with the result that recruits were plentiful.
•with "America," and including "Auld Lang
The
Lieut.-Colonel commanding the Depot Unit
PUBLISH NEW DIXIE SONG
Syne," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Carry
of the regiment sent an enthusiastic letter to
Waterson, Berlin & Snyder have just pub- Leo Feist, Inc., regarding the success of their
Me Back to Old Virginny," "Drink to Me Only
With Thine Eyes," "The Girl I Left Behind lished a new "Dixie" song entitled "I'm All co-operation.
Me," "Dixie," "Rocked in the Cradle of the Bound Round With the Mason-Dixie Line."
Deep," "Sailing," "A Stein Song," and a score The song, which is by Jean Schwartz, Sam M.
MOTZAN FINISHING NEW SCORE
or more of patriotic numbers and familiar Lewis and Joe Young, is said to be a Dixie song
hymns. Extracts from President Wilson's war with a brand new idea.
Otto Motzan, the well-known composer, who
message act as an introductory.
has been sojourning for the past several weeks
at Narragansett, R. I., has returned to town.
PUBLISHERS LIKE MASSAPEQUA
LIEUT. MEYERON FURLOUGH
A number of publishers who attended the re- Mr. Motzan has been finishing the score for his
Lieutenant Herbert L. Meyer, son of Felix cent outing of the Greater New York Music late operetta, which is to be published by the
Meyer, president of the Karczag Publishing Co., Publishers' and Dealers' Association at Massa- Karczag Publishing Co., Inc.
Inc., is at present in New York on a two weeks' pequa Inn, Massapequa, L. I., liked the place
Two Wonderful Ballads
furlough. On August 29 he will report at Ayer, so well that two automobile loads left for there
Mass., near Boston, where about fifty thousand on Monday for a three-day stay.
men of the new national army will be trained.
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
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
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