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THE
SONGS OF THEEAST AND WEST
Two New Numbers by Boosey & Co. Typical of
China and East India
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
DECEMBER 6, 1919
GOLDEN HITS FROM THE GOLDEN
WEST"
YOU'LL KNOW WHAT
IT MEANS TO BE
Boosey & Co. are the publishers of a new
Chinese song which is attracting much atten-
tion. It is described as "A characteristic, typi-
A song-ballad that ia appealing to the hearts of thousands—soon millions. Get it while it's new—TODAY.
cal Chinese song with all the fetching har-
The price may advance any time
monies and rhythmic quirks Western ears have
learned to associate with music of the Orient."
Another new song issued by Boosey & Co. is
"Delhi," a composition built up and founded
on traditional East Indian melodies, which the
author, Miss Florence Parbury, collected dur-
A Gypsy Ballad Beautiful by Neil Moret, composer of " MICKEY." and Louis Weslyn, writer of "SEND ME AWAY WITH
A SMILE." Sung with success by Henry Burr
ing her frequent sojourns in India. It is de-
scribed as a number "Insistently haunting in its THREE MORE GOOD SELLERS: "BOW WOW," an instrumental one-step; "WON'T YOU
direct sounding of the spirit of pompousness,
COME BACK TO TOKIO," a novelty, and "SUNSHINE MARY," ballad
parade and pageantry so loved by the Eastern
peoples."
NEW YORK OFFICE
NEW LOVE SONG BY WILBUR WEEKS 145 WEST 45th STREET
San Francisco
ROSE OF ROMANY
DANIELS & WILSON, Inc.
The E. T. Paull Music Co. has just issued a
NEW RICHMOND DISPLAY SIGN
new high class love song, "Just Because I
Want You All the While." The words are by Large Electric Sign Features Richmond Songs
in Theatre District
Wilbur Weeks and the music by M. Alexander.
The number has been placed in the standard
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catalog of the house and while it is distinctly
Jack Robbins, general manager for Rich-
a high class song it has a most popular appeal mond the Publisher, who opened up professional
and is a number that without doubt will have
popularity. The publishers have given it an
artistic title page which readily lends itself to
display purposes. The song should be popular
as both stage and demonstration number.
TWO GORDON CHRISTMAS CANTATAS
The Estate of Hamilton S. Gordon are espe-
cially featuring at this time two Sunday school
Christmas cantatas: "The Child of Bethlehem,"
a beautiful Christmas tableau cantata by S. S.
Compton, and "The Birth of Christ," another
Christmas cantata by W. A. Ogden.
SONG WRITERSW>EN IN BOSTON
The new publishing firm organized by Jack
and Aaron Neiberg has opened offices at 228
Tremont street, Boston, Mass. The above men
were formerly connected with the Walter
Jacobs Co.
sign has attracted much attention, as it is in the
heart of the theatre district and the professional
singers are constantly reminded of the new
Richmond song hit, "In Your Arms." The
sign has border lights of various colors, with the
title of the song in white glass letters with
semi-indirect lighting effects. The sign is in
RICHMOND
MUSIC
PUBLISHER
THE BIG SONG HIT
"IN YOUR ARMS"
Electric Sign Featuring New Richmond Hit
offices at 1552 Broadway some months ago, re- the line of vision of thousands of people and
cently had a large electric sign installed in a can be seen for several blocks in both direc-
very conspicuous place on their building. The tions on Broadway.
WHITE CO.'S CHICAGO OFFICE
SOAP TO ADVERTISE MUSIC
James S. White Co., Inc., Boston, Mass., have
appointed James Altiere their Chicago repre-
sentative. Mr. Altiere is located in the Ran-
dolph building, 145 North Clark street, where
he will look after the professional work and
handle the James S. White Co.'s catalog, laying
particular stress on the following numbers: "Hot
Coffee," featured by Wilbur Sweatman's jazz
band; "Oh Danny, Love Your Annie," and "My
Pretty Little China Maid," featured by Libonati
the Great, and 100 other vaudeville acts.
MEYER COHEN RECOVERING
"My Pretty Little China Maid" is by James
Meyer Cohen, who has been confined in a (Slap) White, who has written numbers of hits
hospital for the past two weeks where he un- for the McKinley Co., and Will Rossiter.
derwent an operation on his hand for blood
poisoning, is now convalescing and will shortly
A POPULAR MUSIC SALESMAN
resume his duties.
One of the most popular music salesmen in
G. Schirmer, Inc., have just issued and for- the Eastern trade district is J. Blynn Welden,
warded to the trade a little pamphlet under the of C. C. Church & Co., Hartford, Conn., whose
title "Christmas Music," being appropriate selec- personality has made for him many friends in
tions from their catalog for the holiday season. this section of the country.
Joseph George is the latest addition to the Recently the Memphis Blues Band, headed
music publishers of New York, with offices at by W. C. Handy, of the firm of Pace & Handy
Music Co., Inc., gave a concert at the Man-
442 West 125th street.
hattan Casino and in order to advertise the af-
fair Pace & Handy distributed 5,000 bars of
soap, announcing the appearance of the Mem-
phis Blues Band, as well as the latest Pace &
The melody of this song is used eight
Handy Music Co.'s song hit, "Think of Me,
times at each showing ol this
Little Daddy."
great tllm
Paramount Picture Song
BE SURE TO GET
'DRIFTING ON"
That Waltz Song success by those hit writers
Howard Johnson and Jos. H. Santly
-AND-
"WITH YOU, MY OWN"
A Beautiful Ballad Fox Trot by
[jimmie Flynn and W. M. Oreslj
Very Popular Ballad, 7 Cents
ci.ic.go McKinley Music Co.
New York
" Special prices (or the next 30 days'to dealers ^
i who will feature them.
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