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THE
NEW PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Several Excellent Features Included Among the
New Ditson Offerings for February
Among the recent publications of the Oliver-
Ditson Co. is a most interesting volume of
"Modern Mother Goose,", by H. L. Cramm,
and including twenty-six well-known" "Mother
Goose" melodies, with lyrics that are strictly
up-to-the-minute, as per example, to take lib-
erties with the Ditson copyright, the modern
version of "Jack and Jill":
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FEBRUARY IS, 1919
FEIST HITS FEATURED IN KRESS STORE IN ATLANTA, GA.
Herewith is shown the music department of
the S. H. Kress store, Atlanta, Ga., one of the
most progressive in the South. During the
numbers, "The Land of Beginning Again," "The
Navy Will Bring Them Back," "Mother, Here's
Your Boy," "Ja-Da" and "The Kiss That Made
"Jack and Jill lived in a little flat,
She was a farmer's daughter.
They did not have to scramble up the hill
To get a pail of water.
Nothing was like their childhood days,
Of mutual work and laughter,
Till Jack fell down the elevator well,
And Jill came tumbling after."
The lyrics of the twenty-live other melodies
are along the same lines.
Another special volume in the new list is "The
National Songs of the Allies," arranged for the
otgan by James H. Rogers, and the separate
sheet music publications include: "The Little
Flag on Our House," words by William C.
Demarest, and music by Charles Fonteyn Man-
ney; a service version of "The Star Spangled
L'anner" and an impressive group of songs of
general interest by Lily Strickland, Ferdinand
Dunkley, N. Clifford Page, S. Coleridge-Taylor
and others.
For February the Ditson Co. have issued a
Attractive Display of Feist Numbers in Atlanta Department Store
very attractive novelty list in booklet form, in week the photograph was taken they were fea- Me Cry." The alert salesladies shown here go
which is included much musical news of general turing several songs from the catalog of Leo to prove the recent song hit, "Everything Is
interest. In a separate booklet there is offered Feist, Inc., including the nationally advertised Peaches Down in Georgia," was not far wrong.
some selling points for the dealer regarding the
new novelties.
TO KEEP EX=SOLDIERS SINGING
TO ENLARGE THEIR QUARTERS
C. ARTHUR FIFER TO VISIT WEST
Music Publisher Leaves for California to Work
With Collaborator on New Songs
Edward P. Little Believes Returning Soldiers
Should Be Organized Into Singing Bodies to
Preserve Their Love for Music
We have heard much of the "singing armies,"
and
of the fact that American soldiers and sail-
C. Arthur Fifer, of the C. Arthur Fifer Music
Co., Quincy, 111., left town February 12 for ors would come back to their homes with a well-
California for a month's rest. Before returning established demand for music generally, as a
home, however, he will spend some time with result of the musical training they received in
Harry D. Kerr, the lyric writer of Los Angeles, camps, under competent directors. At least one
music man is of the belief that to realize the
as these two men are collaborating on several most benefits from this love for music that has
new numbers.
been instilled in the lighting men it is necessary
The C. Arthur Fifer Music Co. have just to keep that love of music exercised through
launched their 1919 campaign and are concen- organized effort, preferably through the bring-
trating on "Clovertime," "Send Me My Girl," ing together in each town and village of the re-
"The Busted Blues" and "Quit Calling Me Hon." turned soldiers for the purpose of holding reg-
"Clovertime" is a brand new ballad, and from ular "sings." It is the development of the Com-
the start it has taken well wherever introduced. munity Chorus idea, but designed for the pur-
Many orchestra leaders are playing this fox-trot pose of reaching particularly ex-soldiers and
nightly.
their friends. Edward P. Little, of Sherman,
Clay & Co., who stands sponsor for the idea,
believes that if carried out it would stimulate
A NEW FAY FOSTER SONG
materially the demand for sheet music.
Fay Foster, composer of "The Americans
Come" and .numerous other high-class and
HAUNTING HAWAIIAN LOVE SONG
meritorious works, has recently written another
song which bids fair to be added to her many
successes. This new number is entitled "I'm
Glad I Went Over to France" and the publish-
ers are rushing it into print. It will be pub-
lished with fox-trot arrangement, for piano, or-
chestra and band. J. Fischer & Bro. are the
publishers.
Intermezzo
By
One-Step
M. DAVID and WM. HEWITT
Published by
T. B. HARMS & FRANCIS, DAY & HUNTER
C. C. CHURCH & COMPANY
(Tell Her of My Love)
Song or Waltz
Very Popular
Pace & Handy, originators of the "BLUES,"
specialists in rags and Southern ballads, of fer
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Successors to CHURCH. PAXSON & CO.. New York
James Casey, head of the Echo Music Pub-
lishing Co., will shortly close the New York of-
fices of the concern and make his headquarters
in Seattle, Wash.
"WAITING"
The Meyer Cohen Music Pub. Co. will in the
next few days greatly enlarge their quarters in
the Astor Theatre Building. They have made
arrangements to take over two additional rooms
on the same floor in which they are now located.
The new quarters will be occupied as soon as
alterations which are now under way are com'
pleted, and which will give the concern much
needed office space.
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