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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
50
FEBRUARY 1, 1919
ISSUE SERVICE VERSION OF ANTHEM
"SINGAPORE" GOING BIG
CENSORING MUSIC IN ITALY
d i v e r Ditson Co. Publishes "The Star Spangled
Banner" in Revised ForW '•• i »«»'™ 1 **"'"*'
Maxwell Silver Reports Big Demand for Latest
Hit From Gilbert & Friedland Catalog
Officials Feared Spies Would Convey Informa-
tion to Huns
BOSTON, MASS., January 27.—The Oliver Ditson
"Singapore," which is a novelty number that
Co. has put on the market a service version of
is popular both as a so.ig and an instrumental
"The Star Spangled Banner."
This version selection, is, according to Maxwell Silver, man-
embodies the work of a committee of twelve, ager of Gilbert & Friedland, Inc, the publishers,
comprising the following: John Alden Carpen- having a large sale in ail sections of the coun-
ter, Wallace Goodrich, Walter E. Spaulding and try. He states he never saw a number create
F W. Converse, all representing the commit- a demand for itself in so short a time. Usually
tee on training camp activities; Peter W. Dyke- songs gain popularky tirst in the Hast, and as
man, of the University of Wisconsin; Osbourne the professional singers travel West a demand
McConathy, of North Western University, and is created for the numbers they sing. In this
Hollis Dann, of Cornell University, represent- case, however, the popularity of "Singapore''
ing the National Conference of Music Super- has often preceded the professional appear-
visors; and C. C. Birchard, Carl Engel, William . ance of singers. This is the result of the num-
Arms Fisher, E. W. Newton and Arthur E. ber's popularity with the dance orchestras.
Johnstone, representing the music publishers.
In their work of standardizing the anthem,
the committee considered and studied it from TRIANGLE CO. FEATURING TWO HITS
the standpoints of melody, rhythm and har- "That's Got 'Em" and "I've Done My Bit for
monization.
The result of their joint effort
Uncle Sam" Receiving Big Demand
was to add dignity to the ordinary version and
to offer the country a more musical form of
The Triangle Music Publishing Co. are now
its national anthem.
featuring two numbers in their catalog, an in-
The new version of playing the hymn is be- strumental rag called "That's Got 'Em," by
ing used at all its concerts by the Boston Sym- Wilber Sweatman, composer of "Down Home
phony Orchestra, to the delight and interest of Rag" and "Bogie Rag," and a song, "I've Done
its hearers. This version will undoubtedly also My Bit for Uncle Sam" (Will You Do Your Bit
be the one exclusively used in the schools. for Me?), by Sailor Joe Davis and Bandmaster
This is the version used in the Army and Navy Geo. F. Briegel, of the U. S. Navy.
Wilber
Song and Band Book.
Sweatman and his orchestra will record both
of the above numbers for the Columbia Grapho-
phone Co.
NEW NUMBERS FOR FORSTER
Chicago Publisher Buys Several Songs From
Echo Catalog
Forster, Music Publisher, Inc., Chicago, 111.,
has purchased the publishing rights to the fol-
lowing popular numbers from the catalog of
the Echo Music Publishing Co., of New York
and Seattle, Wash., "Home Again," "Your Love
and Yours Alone," "Hearts of the World,"
"Every Time She Hears the Band Play," "Sun-
set Dreams," waltz; "Old Love Letters" and
"My Hawaii."
POPULAR IN THE MIDDLE WEST
"When I Come Home to You," the ballad suc-
cess from the catalog of Huntzinger & Dilworth,
is having much popularity in the Middle West,
according to the reports of R. L. Dilworth, of
that firm, who is visiting the trade in that ter-
ritory. He states that it is leading the. cat-
alog in point of sales.
FEATURING MORRIS NUMBERS
Florence Wallace, the well-known prima
donna, now on concert tour, is featuring two
numbers from the Joe Morris Music Co. catalog.
The songs are by Arthur J. Lamb and Irving
Cortland Sanders and both numbers appear to
have much promise, as they are now among the
leading sellers in the above firm's high-class
catalog.
RECOVERING FROM OPERATION
PORTLAND, ORE., January 25.—Mrs. L. W. Lewis,
wife of L. W. Lewis, manager of the music de-
partment of the Woolworth store here, is now
convalescing from a serious operation.
We Are the Publishers
of the Tremendously
Popular Ballad
"WAITING"
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th Street
NEW YORK
347 Yonge Street
TORONTO, CAN.
"SEE YOU LATER" IN CHICAGO
A dispatch from Rome under recent date says:
To Italy belongs the distinction of being the
only one of the allied countries that established
a strict censorship on music during the war.
Exportation of printed music from Italy is so
great and the opportunity for clever spies to
utilize it as a means of conveying information
to the enemy is so unlimited that Italy organized
an entirely separate censorship for surveillance
of all exportations of music.
The work was carried on in three Italian
cities. Milan censored all music and musical
manuscripts destined for Switzerland; Genoa
performed the same functions for the American
market, and Bologna had the censorship of
music for all the other neutral countries.
TO FEATURE TWO SONGS
Oscar Loraine has just placed a song with
Al Piantadosi & Co., Inc., entitled "True Love
Never Runs Smooth." This new number, to-
gether with the song "And That Ain't All,"
which is being featured in vaudeville by Jack
Norworth, is to be given much publicity dur-
ing the coming months.
SOME NEW FEIST NUMBERS
Among the new songs published by Leo Feist,
Inc., are "You'd Better Get a Girl Before the
Boys Come Home" (Or You'll Never Get a Girl
At All), "Chong" (He Comes From Hong
Kong), "I Want To Shimmie" and "Please
Don't Take My Harem Away."
The Elliot, Comstock & Gest new musical
comedy, "See You Later," recently opened in
Chicago and from reports the show is meeting
TO VISIT TRADE IN THE WEST
with success. The book and lyrics are by Guy
Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse and the music is by
Edward Christy, traveling representative of
Jean Schwartz. The most successful numbers Artmusic, Inc., will leave early in February on
in the show appear to be "Isn't It Wonderful" a short trip visiting the trade in the Middle
and "In Our Little Paradise." The music is West.
published by the T. B. Harms Co. by special
arrangement with Jerome H. Remick & Co., and
the latter company are the distributers.
THE Sensational Oriental Intermezzo
USING ARTMUSIC NUMBERS
Ann Gray, the harpist and singer now appear-
ing in big-time vaudeville, is featuring the Art-
music, Inc., song, "Oh, You Don't Know What
You're Missing." Leo Beers, the entertainer
now on the Pacific Coast, is whistling "Waters of
Venice,"* from the same catalog, and the Court-
ney Sisters are singing the ballad number pub-
lished by the above firm, "Forever Is a Long,
Long Time."
"Arabian Nights"
Song
Intermezzo
By
One-Step
M. DAVID and WM. HEWITT
Published by
T. B. HARMS & FRANCIS, DAY & HUNTER
HAUNTING HAWAIIAN LOVE SONG
C. C. CHURCH & COMPANY
Sweet Hawaiian
Moonlight
60 ALLYN ST., HARTFORD, CONN.
Succeuors to CHURCH. PAXSON & CO., New York
(Tell Her of My Love)
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
Song or Waltz
Very Popular
7 C McKINLEY MUSIC CO. 7 *
Pace & Handy, originators of the "BLUES,"
specialists in rags and Southern ballads, of fer
TWO SENSATIONAL HITS
The Kaiser's Got the Bines
(He's Got Them Weary Blues)
By BROWN and HANDY
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
SEND FOR CATALOG
PACE & HANDY MUSIC CO., Inc.
1547 Broadway (Gaiety Theatr* Bldg.). NEW YORK
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music Engravers and Printers
311 West 43d Street
New York City
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON ^Ushers
WALTER JACOBS
t Bosworth St.,
Publisher
of
BOSTON, MASS.
"See Dixie First"
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music
Dealers
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.