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THE
SOUTHERN SONGS STILL POPULAR
L eo Feist, Inc. , Add Still Another of That T ype
to Their Present Catalog
Southern so n gs a lways a ppear to have a good
demand , and wh ether it is easier to w rite such
lyr ics and melodi es or not, still eac h season vve
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but with the signing of the armistice they again
werr Ilumb e red amollg the lead in g songs .
Le o Feist, Inc ., are the pub li shers o f thr ee
s uc h son gs, although one of th em is a compara
tively recent release, ",\. Iabama Lullaby." The
other two, both big se ll ers, wer e "Everything
Is Peache s Down in Ge orgia and "Everything Is
N ice if it Comes From Dixieland."
" '\Iabama Lullab y" is describ ed as a unique,
drea m y So uthern so n g, a nd whatever its d e
scription it c ertainly proves popular w he r ever
it is heard. The numb e r has bee n rec orded by
prac ticall y a ll the larger ta lking ma chin e record
manu factu rers, as well as the pla ye r roll con
cerns, and ii, s heet music form is o n e of the
most popular ill the Feist ca talog. Herewith is
reprod uced the ver y artistic title page o f "Ala
b;, m a Lu ll aby ."
ANTHEM INSPIRED BY POSTER
N otice Posted by Mayor of Strassburg in 1792
Said to Have Inspired the Autho r
Title Page of "Alabama Lulla by"
have at lea st on e or two Southern numbers rank
ing amo n g th e song suc cesses. During the war
period they fail ed to arrive at suc h fre quen t in
tervals as was their wont in seasons gone by,
Pace & Handy, originators of the "BLUES,"
speciali"h in raga and Southern ballads, offer
"The Song the Sunny Southland
Sings"
"Satan, . I'm Here"
"Oh! Death Where Is Thy Sting"
"RingtaiJ Blues"
"Hooking Cow Blues"
"Who Have You Been Loving
Since I Went Away"
"Remember"
"The Kaiser's Got the Blues"
]t is a n interesting bit of histor y, in view of
the importance o f posters as an inspirati on and
in terpretat ion of patriotis m, that the fam ous
"lVarseillaise " was illspired by a contemporary
pester. Th e va lue of th e poster whi ch to -day
is recogniz ed in ev ery line of wo rk was a lso
k,!o wn as far back as 1792, w hen th e Mayor o f
Strassburg issned a proclamation and had it
d i,p layed throughout the city, under the cap
tion "To a rms, citizens!"
Posted on the city
wall s . the words of the proclamation dir ec tl y
illspired l~o u get de Lisle to write . the fam ous
words of th e " Marse illaise," or as it was first
called, "Th e vVar Song of the A r mies of the
Rhine ."
Later th e convention at Paris cn
titled it th e "Hymn of Marseilles," but th e pub
lic promptly ch an ged it to "La ;'farsci ll aise."
It might almost be sa id that this g reat nation a l
SGng r(;ally set the May or 's poster to mu sic.
THE Sensational Oriental Intermezzo
"Arabian Nights"
Song
Intermezzo
One-Step
M. DAVID and WM. HEWITT
T. B. HARMS &FRANCIS, DAY &HUNTER
We Are the Publishers
of the Terrific
Song Success
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Featured b y JOHN McCORMACK
PACE & HANDY MUSIC
co., Inc.
1547 Broadway (Gaiety Theatre BldK.) . NEW YORK
WINN SHAW USING "MOTHER" SONG
¥
"iN ell-Known
S inger Meeting With
Witmark Number
, .~Using
'-':'l~t" .
Success
_ _
V/i,n n ,Shaw is one of th e bi ggest boo sters of
the M. vVitmark & SOilS publication s in the
busines s, having featu r ed their numbers exclu
s ive ly for the past thr ee years.
Ju st now he
is having goo d success with "Th at \Vonderfu l
:i\10th e r of Mine," a song h e sings at a ll his per
forman ces and which is greeted enth usiastical
ly.
He rece n tly wrote (he pub li s h ers that th e
num ber is one of th e bes t s ongs o f its kind ever
heard by any audience.
NEW RAG ANNOUNCED
"'nagg in g the C ho ps ti cks" is the title o f a ne w
no \'elty song a nd fox -t rot. publi s hed by L eo
F e is t, Tnc. _\rc hie GottIe r and Abc Frankl are
the a uth o rs.
ENTERPRISE CO. BALL
The employe s of the Enterpr is e Music S upply
Co, w ill hold an e n tertainme nt and ball at the
McA lpin Ho tel on Monday even in g, June 9.
C. C. CHURCH & COMPANY
60 ALLYN ST., HARTFORD. CONN.
Successors to CHURCH. PAXSON & CO., New York
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
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3 ~ 1 West 43d Street
New York City
Published hy
Roses 01 Picardy
SEND F OR CATALOG
7, 1919
Music Engravers and Printers
By
By BROWN and BANDY
(He's Got Them Weary Blues)
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