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NOVEMBER 9,
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Leading Concert Artists Featuring "Forever Is
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NEW HARRIS BALLAD
Amy May Clark, who is in charge of the pro-
fessional and teaching department of Artmusic,
Inc., is very much enthused over the way the
leading concert artists are receiving the com-
pany's big ballad, "Forever Is a Long, Long
Time." There are over twenty of the very
highest class concert stars using the number at
present, and these are constantly being added
to by the professional department, who find few
obstacles in the way of placing this number on
the programs of concert singers. Other num-
bers in the firm's catalog which are meeting with
the approval of both the profession and trade
are the waltz, "Waters of Venice," which is
also issued in vocal arrangement under the title
"Floating Down the Sleepy Lagoon"; the patri-
otic ballad, "One for All and All for One,"
which has been adopted as the official song of
the Stage Women's War Relief; a novelty
number, "Oh, You Don't Know What You're
Missing" and "When the Sun Goes Down in
Flanders," which is one of the leading numbers
in the musical fantasy "Cupid's Mirror." The
fact that all of these numbers can be obtained
upon music rolls and talking machine records
is also evidence of their popularity.
IS PEEVED OVER "OVER THERE"
"Why Did You Come Into My Life" Already in Writer in British Paper Feels Hurt That Ameri-
cans Should "Rave" About Going to France
Great Demand
to Fight—His Comments Really Funny Al-
though
Intended to Be Deeply Satirical
Among the recent numbers added to the cat-
alog of Chas. K. Harris is a new ballad entitled
The Music Trades Review of London, Eng.,
"Why Did You Come Into My Life?" This num-
offers in one of its late issues some lengthy
ber is from the pen of Mr. Harris himself, and
comments as to popular music from "Our
from the reception it is receiving throughout the
American Correspondent," in the course of
trade and the singing profession, it promises to
which the correspondent takes occasion to re-
rank with any other ballads from the versatile
mark that although American laws are bad,
pen of this composer and lyric writer in view-
they are not to be compared to the so-called
point of popularity and sales.
"popular" song, and then he proceeds to com-
mence in a manner supposed to be biting, per-
RAGTIME SONGS^ALL DAY SUCKERS" haps, on the musical and lyrical value of "Over
There."
Different instruments and different kinds of
Apparently the writer is not as much worried
music have distinctive tastes, according to R. W.
over the intrinsic merits of the song as over
Stevens, director of music in the Chicago Uni-
the fact that it announces the coming of the
versity, who says: "The music of the oboe is
American Army. He says in part: "The Yanks
acidy, acrid, like the lemon or persimmon, and
are coming all right, and they are not going
the tone of the flute is crystal sugar. Popular
back until it's over, but why rave about it?"
music and ragtime is a simple syrup of equal
He seems quite peeved that Americans prefer
parts sugar and water." Irving Berlin's songs
such songs to the "gasconading songs of the
he calls all-day suckers and speaks of Bach as
French, or the heroic songs of the Italians."
the topnotch of taste, so far as things musical
Judging from the. character of the article the
are concerned.
writer has been in America only long enough
to gather surface impressions of the type that
made Dickens' story of his travels in America
a volume of rich humor to all except those
Anglo-Saxons whose bump of humor is a dent
THE SONG THAT TOUCHES EVERY HEART and
who accept American slang literally.
The fact that some millions of Americans
have seen fit to purchase copies of "Over
There," and many more millions, including prac-
tically the entire personnel of our armed forces,
have accepted it as their own popular song,
apparently carries no weight. Perhaps the
Yanks should have gone across, silent and
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abashed, and sneaked up on the Germans in a
semi-apologetic manner as, for example, on the
Marne recently. Perhaps if the writer would
take occasion to get in touch with his own
country and secure from London copies of some
of the war-time songs in the music halls, he
would feel in a mood to apologize to George
M. Cohan, hat in hand. The writer took occa-
sion to remark of "Over There": "The gifted
author got 25,000 cold hard dollars for it, and
yet they shot Jesse James." He forgets to state
that the publishers who paid that price for the
number were such suckers that it took them
nearly six weeks to get the full amount back
and a small profit besides, to say nothing of
the income derived from the number for the
following several months.
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GILBERT AND FRIEDLAND RETURN
Well-Known Song Writers and Publishers Back
From Extended Vaudeville Trip
Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland, the pop-
ular song writers and publishers, have just re-
turned from a long tour over the Western
vaudeville circuits. Upon their recent trip they
took part in many of the Liberty Loan drives
in the various cities in which they were play-
ing. The crowds were very large in many of
the cities and especially so in Denver, Colo.,
where twenty-five thousand people at the City
Hall in that city heard them sing "While You're
Away/' one of the latest numbers from their
pens.
This song is quite popular with the vaudeville
artists, and among those who have placed it in
their repertoire are Dorothy Toye, Lillian Teece,
the Duncan Sisters and Bobby Nash.
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