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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
OCTOBER 26,
1918
MUCH PUBLICITY FOR "MICKEY'
SINGING CONTESTS FOR SAILORS
SHEET MUSIC PLEASES SOLDIERS
Daniels & Wilson Number Being Featured
Strongly on Records and by Other Means
Boys at Pelham Bay Training Station Take
Great Interest in Daily Songfests—Winners
Get Extra Leave and a Prize Cup
War Correspondent Makes a Strong Plea for
Music for Men in France
Daniels & Wilson are being congratulated
throughout the trade on the co-operation they
are receiving from various sources in giving
their song "Mickey" publicity.
The number
was written for the motion picture of that title,
produced by the W. H. Productions Co., in
which Mabel Normand is featured. The strains
of "Mickey" run throughout the score of the
specially written music, and orchestrations have
been sent to over 7,500 orchestra leaders in
motion picture houses. The Columbia Grapho-
phone Co. have produced a double-faced record
of the song and they have sent their dealers
much advertising material to be displayed when
the picture is shown locally.
Other record
manufacturers are to issue the song in their
early catalogs.
Daniels & Wilson have also
been promised by the syndicate stores and other
sheet music dealers to make special displays
during the weeks the picture is being featured.
"TILL WE MEET AGAIN"
Remick & Co. Featuring New High-Class Num-
ber by Egan and Whiting
Jerome H. Remick & Co. recently published
a song entitled "Till We Meet Again," and it
seems to have created an immediate demand.
The professional department of the firm is now
making a big drive to give it publicity and it
will be heard on the vaudeville stage often dur-
ing the remaining months of this year. "Till
We "Meet Again" is a ballad with a lyric and
melody which stamps it as a song of the bet-
ter class. Raymond B. Egan wrote the words
and Richard Whiting the music, and in this,
their latest song, they have produced a number
which will probably rank among their greatest
successes.
JOIN PACE & HANDY STAFF
Chas. Smith and Harry Troy have joined the
writing staff of the Pace & Handy Music Co.
Two new numbers from their pens will be is-
sued at once, "Who Is the Husband of Aunt
Jemima, the Mother of the Gold Dust Twins?"
and "I Got You Where I Want You."
J. Russell Robinson, author of "Tish-O-Mingo
Blues" and "Ringtail Blues" and who is well
known for his recordings on music rolls, has
also joined the Pace & Handy staff.
C. C. CHURCH & COMPANY
60 ALLYN ST., HARTFORD. CONN.
Succeasors to CHURCH, PAXSON & CO., New York
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
"The Song the Sunny Southland Sings"
"A Good ManTliard to find"
and
"Beale Street Blues"
SEND FOR CATALOG
PACE & HANDY MUSIC CO., Inc.
1547 Broadway (Gaiety Theatre Bid*.). NEW YORK
The importance ascribed to music in the vari-
ous Xaval Training Stations is well indicated
in the methods followed at the great Pelham
Bay Station, near New York City, for encour-
aging, by every means, the interest of the men
in singing and in music generally.
Contests
are held weekly between various regiments of
young seamen, and in order that each unit may
put forth its best efforts, the winners of the
contests not only secure a claim on a prize
cup, but incidentally, and what is more impor-
tant to the individual sailor, secure extra and
special liberty as a reward for their efforts.
The singing contests are special features, but
each evening in the various sections of the
camp singfests are held just before the call to
colors. The sailors favor the popular songs of
the day, which may be indicated by the fact
that the contest won by the Second Regiment
was due to their singing the song "Just Like
Washington Crossed the Delaware, General
I'ershing Will Cross the Rhine." Percy Hemus
is musical director of the Pelham Bay Camp.
"AFTER YOU'VE GONE" A SUCCESS
".After You've Gone," one of the biggest sell-
ers in the catalog of the Broadway Music Corp.,
is increasing in popularity with the professional
singers. The recent reports from the various
branch offices of the above company show that
it has been placed in the repertoire of a large
number of high-class stars. Another indica-
tion of its popular appeal is the fact that the or-
chestras play it often.
PUBLISHING TWO REAL HITS
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., October 18.— Kdward P.
Little, in charge of the sheet music publishing
department of Sherman, Clay & Co., says that
the company has two of the best hits it has ever
had in "Mummy Mine" and "Bring Back the
Belgian Babies." The latter has been going
but about six weeks, but it bids fair to over-
take the great popularity of "Mummy Mine."
Make your quarters grow.
Buy Thrift Stamps.
TWO BIG SUCCESSES
"SEND ME A CURL"
"CARRY ON"
By GEOFFREY O'HARA
High Voice
Th« camp long f.Torite
By N. F. W00DBURY
Low Voict
Destined to be the most popalar of war tongs
Frank J. Taylor, correspondent for the United
Press, wrote the following from France recently
regarding the part music played in the life of
the soldiers and why it was desirable to supply
them with all the latest sheet music possible.
He said:
"The boys want music over here in the
trenches. If you want to make a hit with a
soldier boy, send him some of the latest song
hits, so that he and his pals can try to 'har-
monize' on them during the long evenings they
spend in the trenches or among the ruins or
somewhere in the woods.
"European officers say the American army is
the most musical in the world. The boys are
always going about their work, whether it's
marching into the trenches or filling up a shell
hole in the road, with a song.
''A song to sing is a great thing. It boosts
up the spirit and the morale, and makes a man
forget the things he doesn't like. The fellows
in the army who can't sing always whistle.
Somewhere in every group is an instrument of
some kind, often nothing more than a couple
of strings over a cigar box with handle on it—
but something that will make a tune.
"The boys usually get near a 'hut' that has
a phonograph now and then and try out the
songs. But they want new ones, the latest ones
from America, the soldier songs that take so
long to drift across the sea, unless some one
sends sheet music.
"So if you want to make a hit with a 'dough-
hoy' send him some sheet music, the latest thing
you can get from Broadway. The best way to
send it is in an envelope, sealed tight, as first
class matter, for otherwise it may be lost."
FEIST TO PUBLISH THE SCORE
Mr. and Mrs. Coburn produced last week at
the Greenwich Village Theatre "The Better
'Ole," a great London success. This is the
work of Captain Bruce Bainsfather, the famous
English cartoonist, and Arthur Eliot. The
music is by Herman Darewski, Percival Knight
and others. Loo Feist, Inc., publish the score.
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
T. B. H a r m s & Francis, Day A Hunter
62 West 45th Street
NEW YORK
HUNTZINGER & DILWORTH
159 West 57th Street
NEW YORK
WHEN TAPS ARE
SOFTLY BLOWING
WATSON'S NEW
WAR BALLAD
A MESSAGE OF
GOOD CHEER
TO THE
MILLIONS OF
"KHAKI BILLS"
IN FRANCE
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regular jobber
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