Music Trade Review

Issue: 1919 Vol. 69 N. 17

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THE MUSIC TRADE
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REVIEW
CONNORIZED NOVEMBER LIST
BIG YEAR FOR WAINWRIGHT CO.
Monthly Bulletin in Mimeographed Form Con-
tains Some Interesting Selections
Marietta, O., Concern Enjoying an Unprecedented
Volume of Business—Handles an Excellent
Line of Pianos, Players and Victrolas
The Connorized Music Co. managed to over-
come the effects of the printers' strike in New
York, in a certain measure at least, by running off
the November list of Connorized rolls on a
mimeograph in order that the retailers might
have a list upon which to work. The regular
printed bulletin for November will be issued at
a later date, when conditions permit.
The November list in itself is well up to the
usual Connorized standard, and contains a score
or more of the hits of the day, as well as some
hymns and novelty numbers. The popular songs
on the Word Rolls include, "I Used to Call Her
Baby," "Poor Little Butterfly Is a Fly Gal Now,"
"That's Worth Waiting For," "Freckles," "Give
Me the Sultan's Harem," "Tell Me Why," and
other selections of equal interest.
GEO. W. POUND STARTS TRIP
OCTOBER 25, 1919
meier and Mildred Butts, have recently attended
the Victor Co.'s school of salesmanship in Cam-
den, N. J., and report that they have profited
greatly by the course.
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BELIEVES IN ADVERTISING
O., October 20.—The Wainwright
Music Co. of this city announces that its fiscal Fulkerson Music House Realizes Value of Clean
Advertising in Smaller Towns
year, which closed on September 30th, was the
most successful in a business way the company
As an example of what some of the music stores
has ever enjoyed, both in volume and quality of
sales. The company handles the Chickering, in the smaller districts are doing might be mentioned
Mehlin, Hardman and Milton pianos and players the Fulkerson Music House, Carbondale, Pa., which
and the Apollo and Gulbransen player-pianos, is a progressive organization and believes in adver-
together with Victrolas and has managed to keep tising to the fullest possible extent. To this end a
a fair stock of goods on hand although not quite series of five ads has been prepared for appearance
as many as could have been wished. The demand in the local papers. These ads are characterized by
is particularly strong for instruments of the better their straightforward statement of facts and make
grade, and the percentage of cash sales has been an effective bit of advertising both from the stand-
most gratifying. Marietta is located outside the point of truth and forcefulness. The Fulkerson
steel district, and has therefore not been affected Music House carries a large stock of pianos, among
by the general strike of the steel workers, as have them being the Knabe, Estey, Autopiano, Kohler &
Campbell, Schubert and others. Musical instruments,
other localities.
Two of the clerks in the Victrola department of small goods and talking machines and records are
the Wainwright store, Misses Estella Kester- also in stock.
MARIETTA,
Left Sunday Night to Attend International Con-
ference at Atlantic City—Speaks to Music Deal-
ers in Several Southern Cities
i .
George W. Pound, general manager and counsel
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, left
New York on Sunday night for Atlantic City to at-
tend the International Trade Conference as a rep-
resentative of the music industry. This conference
is made up of representatives of Great Britain,
France, Belgium and Italy, and is being held under
the auspices of the United States Chamber of Com-
merce.
On Wednesday Mr. Pound was in Richmond, Va.,
where he spoke to the music dealers of that section
on the vital questions at present facing the industry
and the part every dealer must play to bring about
the desired end. From Richmond he went to Nor-
folk, Va., on Wednesday and addressed the dealers
there. Friday found him in Charleston, S. C, carry-
ing out his schedule which appeared in The Review
last week.
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WITH
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Of course you do! Then you want, above any other,
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CAPT. H. S. KINGWILL'S NEW POST
Former Associate Manager of The World in Chi-
cago Will Represent E. L. Bill Publications
with Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio
Capt. H. Scott Kingwill, formerly associate man-
ager of the Western office of the Music Trade Re-
view and the Talking Machine World in Chicago,
recently received his release from active duty with
the United States Army. For nearly two years he
has been serving with the famous Fourth Division
and saw much active fighting at the front with the
infantry.
He has just rejoined the staff of Edward Lyman
Bill. Inc., as manager of the Cleveland office, and
will represent the K. L. Bill publications through the
mid-western territory, including Ohio, Indiana, etc.,
making his headquarters in the city of Cleveland.
1920 FOREIGN TRADE CONVENTION
7-
L Schulz Co. Player-Piano
The M. Schulz Co. P layer-Piano is
by all odds the "Easiest to Play": as
we have been saying for five years.
It is also unsurpassed for durability,
satisfactory service y and very low main-
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We Can Usually 'Take Care of Worth-while
Representatives
San Francisco to Be the Scene of World Confer-
ence of American Foreign Traders
One of the important features of the Seventh
National Foreign Trade Convention, to be held
at San Francisco, Cal., May 15-20, 1920, will be
the world conference of American foreign traders,
according to preliminary announcements just
mailed to American firms represented at previous
conventions, who are requested to have their
representatives, living or traveling abroad, time
their visits to this country so as to take advant-
age of the valuable opportunities afforded by this
convention.
Three special steamers, chartered for the ac-
commodation of delegates from abroad, will be
provided for the ports on the Pacific Ocean.
Another steamer starting from New York will go
by way of the Panama Canal, to accommodate
delegates from the East.
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OCTOBKR 25,
THE MUSIC TRADE
1919
That the music-roll should be classified among
what are sometimes called "season goods" does not
at first seem possible. But a little thought will show
that although music rolls of some kind sell during
every month of the year, there is a distinct season-
ableness, as it were, in the supply. Naturally enough
one might suppose that the vacation months would
produce a demand for the lightest of music, and the
winter months for the heaviest of jazz. Jazz can
certainly be heavy enough too. Really, however, the
manufacturers need not be so careful in discriminat-
ing between the kind of fare they offer us in January
and that which they think we should have in August.
Girls, we know, dance as well when the temperature
outside is 100 degrees Fahr. as when it is—-10 degrees
according to the same renowned scale. Obviously,
then, dance music of the heaviest sort is a good at
music of the heaviest sort is as good at one
time as at another. - It is questionable whether a
more effective for femininely vampirish purposes
when used during the hottest heat of August to the
strains of a badly played ukelele in a boat under a
tree by the river's side, than when the soft strains
of the player-piano float over to the davenport where,
before the crackling fgas) log, young love's dream
is softly whispered, or words to that general effect.
We say, we doubt whether it works one way a bit
better than the other. Wherefore, it should seem,
the music-roll bulletins may as well present a much-
of-a-muchness during twelve months of each calen-
dar year.
The development of the word-roll might appear
to present a surprising phenomenon, were it not true
that it is essentially a part of the popular music
craze. The music which forms the backbone of the
roll business is mainly published for use both as song
and as dance. In consequence, the word-roll is a
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MUSIC ROLLS
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natural development, and there seems no reason why,
in due course, all rolls of the sort should not have
the words as well as the music on them. But while
this is all very well, one may rightly ask why it is
that the manufacturers are plainly neglecting oppor-
tunities to make the player-piano and its rolls a part
of the equipment of every voice-teacher. Let the
purists complain as much as they like, the fact re-
mains that the voice-teachers do teach with the piano
and that many of them are rather indifferent accom-
panists. The number of men and women who like
to sing good music to the best of their ability is sim-
ply legion, and it is too bad that the quantity of
reasonably good song music rolls with words is so
very small, comparatively speaking. There have
been laudable and highly interesting experiments of
various sorts made along these lines, with apparently
great success. What a pity that the roll makers
should be short-sighted enough to cast aside a wea-
pon so useful and powerful.
Speaking of word-rolls, or song-rolls, there is an-
other point worth considering which we ought not
to overlook. The first song-rolls, or rolls with words,
were arranged on a staight-cut basis and when the
hand-played arrangements of the music were brought
out the improvement oppeared undeniable. There
is indeed no question that an accompaniment played
by a good pianist while the words are actually being
sung is better for many users of the resulting roll
than would be a mere straight-cut arrangement. But
the fact remains that very often the hand-played ac-
companiment does not at all suit the singer. Then
the task of modifying it is frequently annoying and
difficult. It should seem that the better class of
song-rolls, those which are built on the better type
of ballad, song and aria, should be arranged usually
with straight-cut music, direct from the score with-
out any sort of "interpreting." Of course when the
roll is, deliberately, a record of the interpretation of
a song by a singer and pianist acting in accord, that
is another matter. Rut apart from this, there is a
field of large size and much fertility to be cultivated
amongst those who would certainly not care for some
one else's interpretations when they can get their
own instead.
AEOLIAN CO.
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ONE
OF
SPECIAL
MERIT
ORDER NOW
Connorized Music Co.
144th St. and Austin Place, NEW YORK
1234 Olive Street, ST. LOUIS, MO.
A large and impressive list of Duo-Art music
furnishes the special feature of the Aeolian Co.'s
November bulletin.
Various works are in-
terpreted by Rudolph Ganz, Arthur Friedheim,
Felix Arndt and other artists of the Aeolian
staff. The usual lists of song rolls and Metro-
style-Themodist music are also included. The
whole may be read below:
SONG ROLLS
Title
.
Composer
Baby—"Oh. Uncle"—Fox-trot
Alstyne
Checkers—Ballad
Edwards
Evangeline—Ballad
Fisher
Give Me a Smile and Kiss—One-step
Sullivan
Honeymoon Waltz
Arden
I'll Be True to the Girl of My Dreams
Baker
I'll Be Your Baby Vampire—Fox-trot
Doro
Innocence Waltz—(Nevinny Valcik) Bohemian Edition. Vlach
In Siam—Fox-trot
Cooper
(Continued nn paqc 14)
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WORD ROLLS
NOVEMBER BULLETIN
(Composers' Names in Parentheses)
x
For Singing or Dancing.
988
x At the High Brown Babies' Ball. One Step.
Kt>y of K Flat.
(Ertlmnn) Gardner
990 x Down By the Meadow Brook. Waltz Song.
Key of G.
(Wendling) Daniels
987 x Hawaiian Lullaby. Waltz Song. Key of F.
(Bridges) Sloane
986 x Hawaiian Smiles. Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Earl) Daniels
998 x I Ain't Gonna' Give Nobody None o' This
Jelly Roll. Key of B Flat.
(Williams) Mackay
997 x I Am Climbing Mountains. Fox Trot. Key
of G.
(Kcndis & Brockman) Gardner
555 x I'm Like a Ship Without a Sail. Waltz
Song. Key of B Flat.
(Kendis & Brockman) Gardner
384 x In Your Arms. Ballad-Fox Trot. Key of C.
(Glaser) Goodwin
556 x I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep.
From "The Greenwich Village Follies."
(Sloane) Gardner
From "The Greenwich Village Follies."
992 x Lullaby Time. Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Freeman) Mackey
994 x Mandy. From "Ziegfeld Follies." Fox Trot.
Key of C.
(Berlin) Goodwin
999 x Moments. Fox Trot. Key of G.
(Kuhn) Weston
985 x Poor Little Butterfly Is a Fly Girl Now. Fox
Trot. Key of B Flat.
(Rubin-Santrella) Walter
995 x A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Fox Trot.
Key of G.
(Berlin) Morton
993 x Some Day You'll Want Me Back (Maybe I
Won't Want You.) Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Morgan) Daniels
989 x Sweet Kisses That Came in the Night. Fox
Trot. Key of G.
(Von Tilzer) Gardner
996 x They're All Sweeties. One Step. Key of G.
(Von Tilzer) Weston
991 x You Know What I Mean. Fox Trot.
Key
of B Flat.
(Rath) Morton
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