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MUSIC TRADE
Haunting , Dreamy, Sensational Ifl S~
REVIEW
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28, 1919
JUNE
If! Waltz Song Succes~
HAWA"AN MOON L(GHT
Chicago
IT WASN'T BARGAIN DAY
FIRST MUSIC COMPOSED IN AMERICA
Remick & Co. Refuse Big Order for " I'm For
ever Blowing Bubbles" at Less Than Price
"My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" and
Other Numbers First Published in 1759 Re
vived at Recent Concert in New York
''I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," one of th e
newest additions to th e high -class catalog of
Jerome H. Remick & Co., is a lready among the
leading numbers, in point of sale, in that fi rm 's
issues. Recently a ge n e ral letter was sent to
the trade and jobbing orga ni za tions by the pub
li shers, stating that for one order they wou ld
accept a certain price per copy, after which
time there would be a rai se in. th e wholesale
figures. A jobber, sensing the situat ion, and
feeling that " Forever Blowing Bubbles" w ill be
one of the biggest hits o f th e year, offe red the
publishers a hundr ed-thousand-dollar order at a
price a cent lower than their quoted figure.
This latter was r efused. A ll of which gives
some idea of the s uccess of this song,
"MOTHER" SONG STILL SELLING
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McKINLEY MUSIC COMPANY
Meyer
Cohen 's "That's What God Made
For" is still a big se ller despite the
fact th a t it is over eight een months old. This
is quite a lon g li fe for a p opu lar-priced song.
The .Meyer Coh e n Mu sic Co. are rushing into
print a new ballad e ntitled , " If I Had Yo u"
(I'd F ee l Li ke a Milliona :re). T he song is
from the pens of Harry Pease a nd Edward N el
son and should be li sted as amo ng the best.
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PUBLISH "TUMBLE=IN" HIT
Jos. 'N. Stern & Co. are the publishers of an
interp·o lated number in the musical show
"Tumble-In," now playing in New York. The
song is entitl ed "The Argent ine , the Portug uese
and the Greek." It is a novel number origi
nally introduced by Herb er t Corthe lL
Kathryn Lee, the wel l-kn own sop ran o, w ill
sing at Willow Grove Park, N. ]., July 15, and
will us e among ot her numbers the latest ba llad
of Charles Huerte r, " Will You Remember," pub
li shed by Harold Flammer, Inc.
An event worthy of more than passing note
was the revival at an open-air concert in Cen
tral Park on Wednesday even ing, May 28, of
the first mu sic composed in America. This was
a little song, "My' Days Have Been So Won
drous Free," which (wit h. half a dozen compan
ion pieces) was first p·ublished in P hil adelphia
in 1759. Both words and music were written
by Francis Hopkinson (1737-91), a lawye r , poet
a nd patriot, who, though he practiced his pro
fession in the City of Brotherly Love, had a
home, which is still standing, at Bordentown,
K ]., and signed the Declaration of Independ
e n ce as a re presen ta ti ve of New Jer sey.
The fact that American music bega n wi th this
publication was re vealed by Oscar Sonneck
when Chief of the Music Division of the Na
tional Library at Washington . Learning of it
fr om Mr. Sonneck, Harold V. Milligan, organ
ist of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church: took
the 'matter up and l:earranged the so ngs for
modern instrum e nts, alld whe n th e fi rst of the
ser ies wa s sung by Miss Moncrieff as a sop rano
so lo the other night his . orchestration was
adopted by the Symphony Society, w hi ch ac
companied the singer.
Thousands of New Yor.kers were in attend
ance, for it was a perfect summer nig ht, and
among the invited guests were Mr. So nneck and
Mr. Milligan, the Mayor of New York, the
President of the Board of A lde rm en and the
City Chamberlain, Mr. Berolzheimer, an ardent
amateur, whom Mr. Hylan has put in charge of
th e city's musical activitie s.
There were present also by special invitation
Professor Arthur Hobson Qui .n, Dean of the
Universi ty of Pennsylvania (Hopkinson's alma
mater), who made an excellent little hi stor ical
add re ss, and a baker's dozen of the composer's
lineal descendants, for, unlike a certain othe r
o ld family of my acqu a intance that figures con
spicuously in the history o f Penn's A merican
"plantation," the Hopkinsons are in no imm e
diate danger of dying out.
It is an interes ting and unusual fact that
the practi ce of law and th e cu ltivati on of music
THE Sensational Oriental Intermezzo
"Arabian Nights"
Song
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hav e come down hand in hand in this family
for nearly, if not quite, two centuries. To this
day th ere has bee n absolutely no break in th e
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tradition.
One of th e guests at the al fresco celebratio n
(E dward Hopkin so n, a Philadelphia attorney a r '
la w) possesses a CoP) of the o ri ginal edition,
printed just 160 years ago, and has often played
th e charming, ·old-fash ioned songs on his violin.
.\nother (Florence Scovel Shinn, t he well-known
ht!morous illu st rator) owns the original manu
script of score and text, for tbe compos e r wrote
the words as we ll as the music of his songs.
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vVhen Elsie Janis returned to New York .:'
some time ago the Keith's Boys Band m et her in
the harbor.
E. S. Tracy, the bandmaster.
a sked Mi ss Janis what she would pr efe r them ..•
to play and ber answer was "E lsie From '
Che lsea," an old favorite of hers. Besides the
above t he ba nd played "Ke ntucky Dream," "O h
H elen" and " \"' ait and See." All· the numbers
are pub lished by Jos. W. Stern & Co.
PUSHING NEW STASNY SQNG
A. J. Stasny, of t he A.J. Stasny Music Co.,
re turned late last week, after spendi ng a nUln
ber o f days ill Chicago inau g urating a publicity
campaign in behal f of the firm's new son g,
"Girl of Mine." The number was purc hased
some time ago after Mr. Stasny made a fast
trip to Baltim o r e to bid for the publishing rights.
It is published with a six-colo r titl e page and
is one of th e most beautiful wo rk s of its sort .
iss ued this season.
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