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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JANUARY 10, 1920
Remarkable Waltz Song Success. On All Records and Rolls
Chicago
WILLOW I>AN€
McKINLEY MUSIC COMPANY
New York
Emerson December Record
Victor November Record
MME. PATTI LIKED NEQRO SONGS
Famous Prima Donna Was Always Enthusiastic
Regarding the Melodies of the South
Mme. Adelina Patti, the world-renowned
prima donna of half a century ago, recently
passed from the living world of song into the
silent realm, leaving behind her a wealth of
golden, vocal memories. But who ever would
dream of linking Patti with the popular—Patti,
the glorious and marvelous, probably the great-
est operatic cantatrice who ever charmed Amer-
ican audiences, and who might well have been
termed the vocal "pearl of great price." Who—
that ever had heard the great Adelina (the "di-
vine diva") warble in tones of liquid gold "Ah!
non credea," "Ernani involami," "Ahf forse e
lui," "Casta Diva" or Arditi's famous "II Bac-
cio"—who that ever heard these and other num-
bers drop from her lips in pearly tones to the
accompaniment of superb orchestras, would im-
agine her caroling popular coon croons of the
day supported only by a banjo and guitar? And
yet that is exactly what she did, according to
the following story in a recent issue of the New
York Sun.
Adelina Patti, on one of her visits to San Fran-
cisco, was the guest one evening at the home of
some people who were her intimate friends and
had been her guests at her home in Wales. An-
other guest on that Sunday evening was an
ambitious young tenor who, at Patti's request,
sang and nearly expired in the excitement of
the occasion, although he was generously praised
by the great artist.
Then Patti discovered in the company two
young fellows she had heard on an overland
train singing to their own banjo and guitar ac-
companiment. To their confusion she demanded
that they must "oblige," and insisted that it was
just what she wanted to hear when they pro-
tested that they sang only darky songs.
Instruments were produced and the young
men began rather haltingly with the quietest,
most sentimental songs they knew. Patti was
not satisfied. "Those funny, lively ones," she
demanded. They, encouraged, gradually worked
into brisker songs, to Patti's undoubtedly gen-
uine pleasure. She hummed along with them
until they swung into a rattling medley, when
she joined with full throated voice in these
words:
Chillen, keep in de middle of de road,
Chillen, keep in de middle of de road!
Doan turn onto de lef,'
Doan turn onto de right—
Jess keep in de middle of de road!
Then, laughing and singing, she led the non-
sense when the medley came to these words:
Shame, shame, 'tis an awful shame!
Landlady's raised de rent, boadahs ain't to blame.
Chuck full of hungah,
Caint stay no longah—
Bye, bye, my honey, I'se a-gwine.
She sang these and other nonsense patter
until she had the youngsters gasping for breath.
Then she declared enthusiastically, "I never be-
fore had such fun singing. I wonder what a
concert audience would say if I gave them—
"Chuck full of hungah,
Caint sing no longah—
Bye, bye, my honey, I'se a-gwine."
Henry A. Ashmead, Toronto, Canada, is the
publisher of a song called "The Sweepers of
the Sea," dedicated by special permission to the
Navy League of Canada. All the profits from
the sale of the song are to be devoted to the
executive of the Navy League.
Specials, January Only, 15c
BY IRVING BERLIN
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Phil Ponce and W. C. Polla are the authors
of a new number entitled "You Know," pub-
lished by C. C. Church & Co., Hartford, Conn.
"WHEN MY BABY SMILES"
VOCAL FOX TROT
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"The august classics," says Judge, "are shaken
out of their exclusiveness in their adaptation for
or-e-steps, fox-trots, etc. 'Peer Gynt' is joyously
ragged into 'Peter Gink.' The 'Carmen' 'Ha-
banera' is appropriated for the opening of 'Rus-
pana.' Rachmaninoff's C Sharp Minor Prelude
is hustled into 'Russian Rag.' A rather recent
attempt to make a waltz of Massenet's 'Elegie'
proved a dismal failure, however. Odd, wasn't
it?"
Mel B. Kaufman, the well-known composer,
has signed a contract with the Sam Fox Pub.
Co., by which the latter will have the exclusive
publishing rights on his compositions for a
term of years. The popularity of his "Me-Ow"
and "Taxi" has brought Mr. Kaufman many
-offers from publishing houses, but he has de-
cided to remain with the firm with which he
has had so much success.
"NOBODY EVER"
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A French inventor is credited with devising a
system of music writing that does away with
the necessity of turning the music sheets. The
music is printed on a roll similar to the ordinary
type of player roll, which is kept in motion by
mechanical means so that the music bars ap-
pear before the player in rotation and at any
desired speed. The music of the accompanying
words is printed across the roll just as in the
ordinary sheet music.
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