Music Trade Review

Issue: 1919 Vol. 69 N. 24

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THE
DECEMBER 13, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
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SETTING HIT WRITING RECORD
Kendis and Brockman Have Put Over Seven
Big Successes Thus Far This Year
Probably no team of song writers in the his-
tory of the music business has written so many
sensational successes in so short a space of time
as the two "James Boys," Kendis and Brock-
All the numbers listed below are played by the Memphis Blues Band, Inc., now touring
the country—other orchestras play them everywhere in Theatres, Cabarets, and Motion
Picture Houses.
A long list of professional singers feature them — they are Jazz —
successful Jazz and Blues.
Think of Me Little Daddy
That's the Fellow, (Rube song)
A Good Man is Hard to Find
I'm Going Back to my Used to Be
I Never Had the Blues (Till I left Nightie Night (Lullaby)
Ringtail Blues
old Dixieland)
Big Chief Blues
Oh You Darktown Regimental
Suez, (Oriental Novelty)
Band
Most of the Above Are Big Successes on the Records and Rolls
James Brockman and James Kendis
man, and certainly none has done so this sea-
son. They are writing songs with great reg-
ularity, and their numbers are invariably excep-
tional successes. A continuance of such writing
success over any longer period will establish
a record that will be almost impossible for any
other team to attain.
During the past seven months they have writ-
ten and had published seven real big hits, ''I'm
Forever Blowing Bubbles," "I Know What It
Means To Be Lonesome," "Golden Gate," "I'm
Climbing Mountains," "I'm Like A Ship Without
A Sail," "Sunny Weather Friends," and "For
Ev'ry Door That Closes Another Will Open
For You." All the above numbers, with the
exception of the last mentioned, for which they
Remember "Yellow Dog Blues"
Victor Record No. 18618
Send this ad and get Special Offer on Sheet Music
PAGE & HANDY MUSIC CO., Inc., 1547 Broadway, New York
have already received several offers, have been
taken over by the larger publishing houses, and
each has met with success
The money involved in these purchases has
always been quite large, and it is understood
that for at least one of the numbers the sum in-
volved was as large if not larger than any ever
before paid for a song.
In speaking of their successes, one of the
members of the firm recently said: "Our success
illustrates the uncertainty of the popular song
A Distinctive Novelty
dreaminess
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15c. PER COPY
water
tured in
sway
tlxngljy
melod
game. Before we sold 'Bubbles' for $10,000 we
were spending a great deal of our time each day
studying personal economy. Then 'Bubbles'
broke and started us on the road to a new pros-
perity and success has followed since. As a
result we will in all likelihood be the biggest
winners in the song game of 1919, for we still
hold a royalty on several of the songs we have
turned over to other firms."
Kendis and Brockman are both still young
despite the fact that they have been writing for
a good many years. Much of their success is
due to the fact that they understand and ap-
preciate the value of good team work. When it
comes to the business they do not allow anything
to interfere with the common cause, success.
They are a well balanced team in every respect,
James Kendis having much experience in the
writing and publishing field, and understanding
fully the public's likes and dislikes as well
as its fickleness. James Brockman on the other
hand was for years a successful vaudeville en-
tertainer, and of course he understands what will
appeal to the average performer. In addition
both of the boys are possessed of good common
sense, and this, with their ability and a little of
the gambling instinct, which apparently is neces-
sary after all in the popular publishing field, all
serves them well.
Despite their great successes neither of the
boys has allowed himiself to become in-
toxicated with his own importance. They real-
ize that they are not the only song-writers that
have great possibilities and their knowledge that
in order to continue to be a successful song
writer it is necessary to make good regularly
should serve them well, and be the incentive
that will carry them through at least several
seasons.
ARTHUR FIELDS TO PUBLISH
It is understood that Arthur Fields will short-
ly open up a publishing office, he being the au-
thor of several songs which he intends to ex-
ploit under his own firm name. Arthur is very
enthusiastic over his new compositions and ex-
pects to be known as a "hit publisher" in a
short space of time.
THREE BIG HITS
2 S o n g s — " My Garden that Blooms in the Night "
" M r . Moon-Chaperon"
1 Instrumental—" Jolly Shriners " march
ORDER OF YOUR JOBBER
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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
DECEMBER 13, 1919
SOME NEW BOOSEY NUMBERS
Boosey & Co. Announce First Issues for the
New Season of 1919-20—Some Promising
Songs Offered to Trade and Public
Boosey & Co., the well-known publishers of
standard music, who during the war period and
for the season just past curtailed their new is-
sues to a minimum, have just announced the
first issue of new songs for the season 1919-20.
In giving publicity to the numbers Boosey &
Co. have divided the releases into two classes,
"songs composed in America" and "English
Songs."
American compositions include "Mother My
Own," words by Miriam Teichner, music by
Edward R. Caldwell; "Teach Me To Do Thy
Will," words by Avery Werner, music by Vernon
Evillc; "Lonesome," words by Avery Werner,
music by Gustave Ferrari; "When Phyllis
Smiles," words and music by Louise Ayres
Garnett.
The English songs include "The Greeting of
the Day," words and music by Douglas Grant;
"Come Away," words by J. Lewis MSlligan,
music by Katie Moss; "A Little Prayer for Me,"
words by Fred E. Weatherby, music by Kennedy
Russell; "The Rose of Perfect Love," words by
Fred C. Bowles, music by Wilfrid Sanderson;
"When Swallows Fly Low," words by Alan
Herne, music by Wilfrid Sanderson; "Into the
Dawn to Be," words by Longfellow, music by
T. Wilkinson Stephenson; "Until," a duet by
Wilfrid Sanderson.
In presenting the above numbers to the trade
the house of Boosey feel they are offering a
class of works which, while they are of the
Boosey high standard, also have, without doubt,
a popular appeal.
One of the moves made by the publishers in
behalf of thuse new issues, which shows how
high they value their salability, is to inaugurate
a big campaign among the professional singers
and teachers.
GOLDEN SONGS FROM THE GOLDEN WEST"
YOU'LL KNOW WHAT n
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A song-ballad that is appealing to the hearts of thousands—soon millions. Get it while it's new—TODAY.
The price may advance any time
ROSE OF ROMANY
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
THREE MORE GOOD SELLERS: "BOW WOW," an instrumental one-Btep; "WON'T YOU
COME BACK TO TOKIO," a novelty, and "SUNSHINE MARY," ballad
DANIELS & WILSON, Inc.
NEW YORK OFFICE
145 WEST 45th STREET
San Francisco
Interchurch Movement is the organization
through which the various Protestant bodies
Missionaries State That Use of Church Music in this country are co-operating.
Is Showing Its Influence in Changing the
The deputation, among whose members are
Character of Native Music There
President M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr
College, and President Ellen F. Pendleton, of
The use of Christian hymns is causing a revo- Wellesley College, was organized by the
lution in the music of the Orient, according to Women's Federated Council of Foreign Mis-
reports received from American missionaries sionary Societies.
by the Interchurch World Movement of North
Miss Ramsey and her social service commis-
America, whose national headquarters are in sion of the deputation will give special study
New York City.
to means of building up community choruses
The squeaky notes of the average Chinese and in the villages of India, China, and Japan,
Japanese orchestra and the "bull-in-a-hardware- methods of training Oriental musicians and choir
shop" noises of a Mongolian band are giving directors and the translation of Christian hymns.
place to the strains of "Rock of Ages" and
"Onward, Christian Soldiers," the Interchurch
World Movement learns. Christian hymns are TO SUPPRESS MUSICAL BOLSHEVISM
sung and played even by Orientals who are not Jazz Music Unpleasant to French Ears and
Christianized. Missionaries state that it is al-
Society Has Been Formed to End It
ways easy to draw a crowd with a baby organ,
no matter how antagonistic the members may be
Parisians have suddenly reversed their former
toward the Christian faith.
decision and have placed a ban on jazz music.
Growing popularity of Occidental hymns is Indeed the feeling is so strong that a society
ELLIOT SHAPIRO'S NEW JOB
similarly found in India, it is said. The recent has been formed for the purpose of rooting
Elliot Shapiro, of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., coronation procession of a maharajah in that it out, if such a thing is possible.
Inc., will hereafter look after all the mechanical country marched to the stirring strains of Amer-
Negro jazz bands lately have been growing
royalty contracts made with the various repro- ican gospel hymns played by the potentate's in popularity and these negro bands are in
ducing companies for his firm. Mr. Shapiro has brass band. Christian music is said to have great demand. One of the Paris newspapers,
some very original plans and intends to give the reached its highest development in Burmah, the Presse de Paris, says:
various recording companies his most earnest where Baptist converts among the natives have
"The negro jazz band, with its tempestuous
co-operation.
been trained for the past century in vocal and music and its cacophony, is a kind of musical
instrumental work.
Bolshevism, and the French have signified in
the last election that they have no use for
An Englishman traveling in the foothills of
Burmah during the Burmese robber wars tells Bolshevism. It is necessary to modify the jazz
of sighting the torchlight flares of a large crowd band as well as political Bolshevism, for cer-
of natives. He and his companions were pre- tainly Paris cannot become a Timbuctoo."
paring for an attack when they heard the famil-
iar strains of "Lead, Kindly Light," coming
from the natives, who turned out to be Burmese
Christians.
THS SENSATIONAL SONG SUCCESS
So important is music considered as an evan-
OF THE YEAR
gelizing factor in the Oriental mission field that
a commission of prominent American women,
The Words by J. WILL CALLAHAN
headed by Miss Josephine Ramsey, a specialist
The Music by FRANK H. GREY
in community music, is on its way for a six
months' investigation of the -question. The
Need We Say More ?
commission is part of an interdenominational
To 6000 McKINLEY Agents:
deputation of thirty well-known American
women, who will study all phases of the mis-
sionary field in the East, and its findings will
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be used by the Interchurch World Movement
in the formulation of its world program. The
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