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A LIVE NEW JERSEY DEALER
Harry Appel Conducts Up-to-the-Minute Stores
Both in Hoboken and Jersey City—Features
the Century Edition of Music With Success
One of the most progressive music dealers
in northern Now Jersey is Harry Appel of
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Mr. Appel has recently made extensive altera-
tions in his store in order to provide more
space for the several departments and permit
of better display. The accompanying photo-
graph shows a portion of the talking machine
departments as well as the sheet music counter.
Tt will be noticed that a display rack has been
placed on top of the talking machine demon-
A P R I L 24,
1920
ORIGIN OF JAZZ EXPLAINED
Englishman Endeavors to Offer an Explanation
of the Origin of the Term
There have been many attempts to offer a
logical explanation of the origin of jazz, par-
ticularly as applied to the "wicked" music of
the present day, but it has remained for an
Englishman in a London paper to offer an ex-
planation that is, to say the least, interesting.
According to the Englishman the word "jazz"
is a corruption of the name "Jasper," as used
by overseers on Southern plantations in ad-
dressing the colored men who deign to labor
in the fields. For convenience sake all negro
workers, says the writer, are called 'Jasper."
When the foreman is in a hurry he yells for
Jasper to speed it up. In other words, he
"Jasper's up" the work. The laborers have
shortened the term to "jass up" the work, and
through faulty pronunciation we come to the
present-day term "jazz." We assume from the
explanation that jazz music is hurried music—
which it is, lo say the least.
LOUIS WESLYN HOME FROM WEST
Louis Weslyn, professional manager of
Daniels & Wilson, Inc., well-known publishers
of New York and San Francisco, writer of
"Send Me Away with a Smile," "Rose of
Romany" and "Sally" (Shame on You), and the
musical comedies, "Come Along, Mary," and
"The Million Dollar Doll," has just returned
to the New York offices of the concern after
a five months' stay on the Pacific Coast.
Interior of Music Store of Harry Appel, Hoboken, N. J.
Hoboken, N. J., who conducts in that city a slrating booth, where copies of the Century
music store that is a model of its kind and Edition of music are featured to great advan-
wherein he handles Victor machines, as well tage. Incidentally Mr. Appel features Century
as a substantial stock of all kinds of sheet Edition most successfully.
Mr. Appel also operates a most attractive
music store in Jersey City and there, too, gives
FOUR SONG HITS
special attention to stock arrangements and
window displays.
(I'LL SEE YOU IN)
"C-U-B-A"
"MY SAHARA ROSE"
(ED. WYNN'S CARNIVAL)
"WAS THERE EVER A PAL LIKE YOU?"
"THE CROCODILE"
Price for 30 days, 18c
IRVING BERLIN, Inc., 1587 B'way, N. Y.
Bert Williams, besides singing the new
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. number, "Somebody,"
in "Ziegfeld's Follies," is also responsible for
the introduction of the same firm's timely nov-
elty composition, "The Moon Shines on the
Moonshine." This song promises to be one of
the most popular of novelty numbers heard
this season. It has an up-to-the-minute lyric
by Francis De Witt and music by Robert Hood
Eowers, writer of "Chinese Lullaby," the song
hit from "East Is West."
Dear Heart
If You Would Care
for a Lonely Heart
You Know
My Castles in the Air
Are Tumbling Down
Sunshine Rose
Girl of My Dreams
Carmenela
Buddy
Al Jolson's Sensational Song HIT
C. C. CHURCH AND COMPANY
SUNG BY BERT WILLIAMS
"SWANEE"
By GEORGE GERSHWIN
Hartford
T. B. HARMS & FRANCIS, DAY & HUNTER
62 West 45th Street
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That Reach
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