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FIRST TO USE "ROSES OF PICARDY"
Linnie Love and Lorna Lea Among the First
Artists to Sing That Popular Ballad
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
time they have featured it, both as a song and
as a duet on all their programs. While a great
many artists and singers waited for the song to
Now that the refrain of "Roses of Picardy" is
being heard in practically every city in the
United States, in concert halls, cabarets, the-
atres and dance halls, as well as through the
medium of thousands of music rolls and talking
machine records, it is interesting to know that
two of the first artists to sing the song were
the charming little duetists, Linnie Love and
Lorna Lea, whose pictures are reproduced here.
Shortly after copies came over from London,
Lorna Lea
become popular before programming it, these
little singers had the courage of their own con-
victions to pick the song from the counter of
the music dealer.
The largest advance sales of almost any rec-
ord ever made have been secured for Charles
Harrison's record on the Columbia. Chappell
& Co., the publishers, have prepared a big ad-
vertising campaign in connection with the song.
Linnie Love
Miss Lea purchased a copy of the song from
one of the New York stores and since that
C. C. CHURCH & COMPANY
60 ALLYN ST., HARTFORD, CONN.
Successors to CHURCH. PAXSON & CO.. New York
TWO BIG SUCCESSES
"SEND ME A CURL"
"CARRY ON"
By GEOFFREY O'HARA
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Th« camp ionf f.yorite
By N. F. WOODBURY
Low Voic.
Destined to be the most popular of war foncs
HUNTZ1NGER & DILWORTH
159 West 57th Street
WAR SONG SHORT ON HISTORY
Collier's Comments Editorially Upon the Num-
ber "Just Like Washington Crossed the Dela-
ware, General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine"
The Feist song, "Just Like Washington
Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will
Cross the Rhine," had the distinction of being
commented upon in the editorial columns of
Collier's last week, the editor gravely calling
attention to the fact that Washington crossed
the Delaware in 1778, but it was not until 1783,
or five years later, that the war came to an
end with the surrender of Cornwallis at York-
town. The editor likewise expresses the hope
that when Pershing does cross the Rhine it will
mark the end of the-war and not the beginning
of the last five years of it. Perhaps the millions
who have sung the song so lustily were not his-
torians, or cared little for historical facts.'
NEW YORK
OCTOBER 12,
1918
"LIBERTY SINGS" IN PHILADELPHIA
Liberty Sing Commission Carrying on Excellent
Work in That City in Keeping Up Spirits of
the People Through Medium of Music
PHILADELPHIA, PA., October 7.—The Liberty
Sing Commission of the War Camp Community
Service, this city, is at present doing a great
work in impressing upon the public generally
the great value of music in maintaining the
spirit of the population during this time of war.
The Commission is featuring a number of
"Liberty Sings" in this city at which the
choruses of the popular war songs, such as "The
Star, Spangled Banner," "America, Here's My
Boy,"- "Good-bye Broadway, Hello France,"
"Keep the Home Fires Burning," "Over There,"
"There's a Long, Long Trail," "K-K-K-Katy,"
"My Belgian Rose," etc., printed on special
folders are distributed free to the crowds who
then sing under competent leadership. "Sing
for Liberty" is the slogan of the Commission
and its plan for "Liberty Sings" provides that
every family write upon a card the name of its
boys in the naval or military service of the
country and.,that .daily, after each, lpeaj, mem-
bers of -the family gather together,, read-the
names and sing a patriotic song. It is also
suggested that once a week all the families in
the block gather together at a central poiitt for
a "sing" and that once a month they gather in
larger groups in the form of a Community
Chorus for a more general expression of their
thoughts in song.
The Commission states: "We have found by
experience in Philadelphia that the 'Liberty
Sings' are wonderful levelers, uniting all races
and creeds and kinds of people into one com-
mon purpose—win the war, regardless of cost."
SOME FEIST NEW ISSUES
Among the new issues Leo Feist, Inc., are
publishing are "Some Lonesome Night," "An
Irishman Was Made to Love and Fight," "In
the Land of Beginning Again," "When a Blue
Service Flag Turns to Gold," "And I Ain't Got
Weary Yet" and "You'll Find Old Dixieland in
France," by Percy Wenrich and Howard John-
son, authors of "Where Do We Go From Here,
Boys."
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
DARN THOSE PROOFREADERS
The Song of the Moment
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
('Till the Boys Come Home)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
NEW YORK
Pace & Handy, originators of the "BLUES,"
specialists in rags and Southern ballads, offer
"A Good Man Is Hard to find"
and
"Beale Street Blues"
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1547 Broadway (Gaiety Theatre Bid*.). NEW YORK
"Fifty thousand persons joined Enrico Caruso
in singing 'Over There' at z. public moonlight
concert in Central Brooklyn, in his eighty-sixth
year, from the effects of injuries received in a
trolley car accident in Asbury Park," says the
New York Tribune.
"WHEN TAPS ARE
SOFTLY BLOWING"
T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter
62 West 45th Street
NEW YORK
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