Music Trade Review

JUNE
THE
14, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
15
WHAT ONE LEADER SAYS ABOUT
DEAR HEART
"Used it the other night for a Grand Bail and had requests for it
at least six times and nothing doing but they would stand ' i~
the m;ddle 01 the floor apd yell 'DEAR HEART,' so 1 can
truthfully say that it is one of the best hits out this season,
and I'm sure it will last, too"
F . L. LAMBERT, Glens Fails, N. Y.
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C. C. CHURCH & CO., Hartford, Conn.
A DOZEN NEW HARRIS BALLADS
Charles K. Harris Announces That He Will
Shortly Issue Twelve Ballads-Plans to In­
augurate Big Publicity Campaign to Feature
the Same-Ballads in Great Demand
C ha rles K. Harris, who each yea r is in the
habit of issuing several ballads from his pen,
Chas. K. Harris
surprised the publishing world last season by
failing to publish even one number of which
h(, was the an thor. H e ass igned no reason for
it, but at the same time he took two young
song writers und e r hi s wing, published their
l1l'mbers and ga ve much publicity t o their works.
Thes e t\\'o boys , Engen e \1\7 est and Joe Gold,
due to hi s efforts, were ena bled at the end of
the season to name five or six successful songs
of which they were the authors. Among these
were "Everybody Shimmies Now," " Mother
Love" and "Why Did I Waste My Time on
' You ?"
It is now understood, however, that with the
ope ning of the fall season Charles K. Harris will
announce tw elve new ballads of which he is the
author.
These are all to be issued s imulta ­
neously and a big campaign will be put into
fo r ce immediately to give them unu sual pub­
licity.
In a recent talk with The R evie w Mr.
Har ris stated th a t no doubt the de mands for
b;.dlads during the corning season would be
g r eater than a t any time in the history of th e
music industry. and that he, in making th e de­
cision to issue thi,s large number of works at
one tim e, did so after studying the s ituation
carefully and reali zing that the mov e undoubt­
edly would be a most success ful one .
Charies K . Harris has been w riting songs so
long that mo s t people have forgotten how man y
years he ha s been at it, and they can by no
mean s nam e a third of the numbers that hav e
been issu ed from his pen , but all of tbem kn ow,
without questi on, sl1ch successful songs as "A fter
th e Ba ll ," "Always in the Way," "B.reak the
News to Mother" and other songs o f his that
have becom e stan dard s.
STANDARD CO. FEATURING HIT
The Standa rd Music Roll Co., Orange , N. ].,
are making a featur e of the] erome H. Remick
& Co.'s . song, "I'm F oreve r Blowing Rubb les."
While it will appear in the regular July list of
the above firm's catalog the y made special de­
li verie s of the roll s in June.
ACTIVE DEMAND IN PHILADELPHIA
Sheet Music Dealers Report Good Season, With
Excellent Prospects for the Summer
FH1LADELPH1A, FA"
June 9.-The sheet music
dealers in this ci ty have been having a most
profitable spring, and it 10Qks as if business
was go in g to k ee p active during the year. There
have bee n an unusual num ber of fine music a l
shows her e this sp'r in g and th e sale of the lead­
ing llumbers has helped th e trade materially.
Olle thing that has bee n 1110st gratify ing is
th e 'way the handl ers of shee t music have been
ab le to keep up th e prices, and the only devia­
tion has bee n th e Snellenburg sheet music de­
partment, which has been running a sp ecial
sale ev e ry Frida y, in whi ch th e 30 and 3S-ce nt
numb ers a·re s o ld at 23 cents.
Th e r e ha s not been a g reat amount of music
published here thi s s pring and ther e seem to
h av~ hee n few d evelopm e nts in thi s lin e wo rthy
of se rious consi der a tion on the part of the pub­
[·s hers. A numb er of Philadelphians have writ·
tell wa r so ngs- a natural te ndency-but they
have had to pay for their pu b li ca tion, and to th e
credit of t he Philadelphia publishers they have
be en very frank to these writers in telling them
o f th e hazardous ta s k of the att empt t o make
s uch songs popul ar.
A surve y of th e field shows that th e bes t sell­
e rs are "Chong," "Friends," " I'm Forever Blow­
ing Bubbles," "I' m Always Chasing Rainbows,"
"How 'Ya Go nna Keep 'Em Down on the
Farm ," a nd Ba ll 's latest popular success, "You'r e
Making a Miser of Me." The best success of
any of 'the Philadelphia publications is Emmet
W 'elch's "Two Eyes From ·Dixie."
IMPORTAN'T ' NOTICE
Chappell & Co ., Ltd., wish to call attention to the trade that the following songs taken from the standard
catalogue constitute quite an array of good sellers. Kindly see that your order clerk carries a plentiful
supply of these songs, as the demand is CONSTANT, INSISTENT and LASTING•
. BECAUSE-Guy D'Hardelot
BELLS OF ST. MARY'S-A. Emmett Adams
CHRIST INFLANDERS-Ward~Stephens
GRAY DAYS-Noel Johnson
HOMING-Teresa Del Riego
KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING-Ivor Novello
KHAKI LAD-Florence Aylward
LADDIE IN KHAKI-Ivor Novello
LAND OF THE LONG AGO-Lilian Ray
LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST-Hermann
Lohr
LOVE'S GARDEN OF ROSES-Haydn Wood
LOVE WILL CALL YOU HOME-Bayly Ransom
MATE 0' MINE-Percy Elliott
MOTHER 0' MINE-Frank E. Tours
CHAPPELL &
NEW YORK
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LONDON
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG AND
SMILE, SMILE, SMILE-(By Arrgt. with Messrs. T.
B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter)
ROSE IN THE BUD-Dorothy Forster
ROSES OF PICARDY-Haydn Wood
SONG OF SONGS-"Moya"
STAR OF MY LIFE-Lao Silesu
SOME DAY WAITING WILL END-Ivan Caryll
THEN YOU'LL KNOW YOU'RE HOME-J. Winne
WHEN THE GREAT RED DAWN IS SHINING-
Evelyn Sharpe
WAIT TILL THE COWS COME HOME-IvanCaryll
WAKE UP!-Montague Phillips
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WHERE MY CARAVAN HAS RESTED-Her~
mann Lohr
co.,
LTD.
TORONTO
MELBOURNE