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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1920 Vol. 70 N. 22

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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MAY
29, 1920
DEALERS READY FOR CONVENTION
—a waltz sensation
by OLIVER WALLACE
Sheet Music Retailers of Twin Cities to Attend
Meeting in New York and Will Endeavor to
Garner a Larger Share of the Profits
ST. PAUL, MINN., May 24.—Watch for the
composer of
con-
vention of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers, for there is blood on the moon,
—that is, figuratively speaking. The retail deal-
ers want a more equitable division of the emolu-
ments of the sheet music trade and they are
going to the convention to get it or learn the
reason why, according to Paul A. Schmitt, for-
mer vice-president of the Association. Mr.
Schmitt, of Minneapolis, H. R. Skeath, of W. J.
Dyer & Bro., J. A. Simon, of the Metropolitan
Music Co., and H. P. Blakestad expect to attend
the big meet and help promote the cause of the
retailers. Of course they are not going down
in a bellicose mood, but they expect to learn
why they are not getting greater profits.
"We long have felt that the publishers have
been getting the long end of the margin of
profit," explained Mr. Schmitt. "All the dealers
are of one mind on this subject, but we have
failed to obtain results largely because there has
been no unity of action in approaching the sub-
ject."
Sheet music is not moving any too rapidly.
The slow season is on, when the young folks
are thinking more of outdoors than of indoor
amusements, and the many teachers and their
pupils have scattered for the Summer for rest
and recreation.
HINDUSTAN
CHARLEY
STRAIGHT
picked it for Imperial Rolls.
HE KNOWS.
Sweeping the Far West like
a prairie fire—OUR BEST
SELLER.
DANIELS & WILSON, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
New York Office:
145 W. 45th'St.
RAINBOW ISLE
B> BETTY BENTLFY and JAMES W. CASEY
Feature theme in D. W. Griffith's New South Sea Island Picture. "THE IDOI. DANCER." now
• hown in every town.
A WALTZ SONC THAT WILL SURELY SWEEP THE COUNTRY
:;; TK s UNDER WESTERN SKIES LITTLE JO DOWN KENTUCKY WAY SANDY
Order Direct or From Your Jobbei
ECHO MUSIC PUB. CO.,
Peoples Bank Bldg.,
SEATTLE, WASH.
'ALL FOR A GIRL" IN REHEARSAL
Percy Wcnrich is the composer of a new
musical comedy entitled "All for a Girl," now
in rehearsal, which will enter New York in the
near future. The book and lyrics of the piece
are by Raymond Peck and the cast includes
Ray Raymond and Dolly Connolly, the wife
of Mr. Wenrich.
AN UNUSUAL WALTZ NOVELTY
L & H. FEATURE THE "CROCODILE"
AUGUST 1 SET AS FINAL DATE
Window Display Advertises Song Hit in Sheet
Music Form and on the Records—Novel Jun-
gle Setting Attracts Much Attention
Composers who wish to compete for the prize
of $1,000 for the best string quartet, offered by
the Berkshire Music Colony, must send their
scores and also separate parts before August 1
to Hugo Kortschak, whose address after July 1
will be in care of the Berkshire Music Colony,
The new Irving Berlin, Inc., number, "Croco-
dile," is apparently one of the most successful
Described as a novelty of novelties, Fred
Fisher, Inc., have just issued a number entitled
"Way Down Barcelona Way." It is an unusual
waltz melody with a Spanish accompaniment,
and from all indications it appears to be a dis-
tinct pleasure for the various orchestras to
render it.
Fox-Trot Ballad Hit
Looks Like a Sensation
Introductory
Price
Chicago
15c
McKinley Music Co.
New Y.rk
Window Display of "Crocodile" at Lyon & Healy Store
of this season's instrumental numbers. Its popu-
larity has been so great that the various talking
machine record and other mechanical recording
companies have made a special feature of it.
The trade, too, has given it much recogni-
tion in both sheet music and talking machine
record form, and it has come in for some
prominent displays.
Herewith is reproduced a recent window dis-
play in the Lyon & Healy store, Chicago, 111.,
one of the leading music houses of the country,
and distributors for the Victor Talking Ma-
chine Co. The display in this instance features
both the Victor record of "Crocodile" and the
song in sheet music form. The setting was most
artistic and owing to the fact that it represented
a jungle scene and had a tank in which sev-
eral crocodiles appeared it attracted unusual
attention.
NICE & CO.'S FORCE ACTIVE
Carl Albert, the sales manager of B. D. Nice
& Co., who recently returned from the Pacific
Coast, has again departed for a visit to the
Western trade. Billy Hueston of the same firm
has just returned from the South where he states
the firm's number "Wond'ring" is having great
popularity, and that the novelty number "Do a
Little This—Do a Little That" is showing up
well.
South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. The jury of
award consists of Ernest Bloch, Louis Svecen-
ski, Ugo Ara and Emmeran Stoeber of New
York and Felix Borowski of Chicago.
George Gershwin has been selected to write
the music for the musicalized version of "The
Misleading Lady," which will be presented dur-
ing the coming Fall.
Get This Right
"ALABAMA
MOON"
Is a Real Hit
A Crooning, Moon
light Song
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MAY
THE
29, 1920
MUSIC
TRADE
73
REVIEW
JACK NELSON WRITES NEW BLUES
New Member of Riviera Music Co. Staff Con-
tributes the "Empty Cellar Blues"
Pull Together!
Did you ever see a team of BIG, rOWEB-
FUL,, WELL. TRAINED horses pull a heavily
loaded wagon out of a mud hole?
Did you notice how they leaned forward
in their collars, steadily, slowly, and pulled
together?
That's the way CENTURY Is pulling: with
you, but the goal we are aiming for cannot
be reached unless both of us keep abreast,
and our traces stretched.
The name of CENTURY'S Big, Powerful
horse in this pull for larger sales and greater
prolltH for you is—"NATIONAL. ADVER-
TISING"—the
name
of yours
is—"CO-
OPERATION."
LET'S
Pl'LL
You cant go
wrong with
any'Feist*
Jack Nelson, who recently joined the writing
staff of the Riviera Music Co., Chicago, 111., is
the composer of the musical comedy "For
Heaven's Sake." His first contribution to the
Riviera catalog is "Empty Cellar Blues," which
appears to be a number which will have much
popularity.
The Riviera Music Co. has just arranged to
publish "The Rose of China," a new number
from the pen of Paul Biese, the well-known
Chicago orchestra leader, whose organization
also does recording for the Columbia Grapho-
phone Co. It is understood that Clark Tyler,
leader of the Green Mill Orchestra of the same
city, assisted in producing the number. The
lyric, by the way, is from the pen of Rex
Lardner, brother of the well-known Ring Lard-
Song'
A New One by Bob Garleton,
Writer of "Ja Da"
" DOO-DEE
BLUES"
RICHMOND ANNOUNCES NEW SONGS
Write for Dealers' Prices
TOGETHER!
Century Music Pub. Co.
Successor to "La Veeda" Is Latest Release of
New York Publishing House
LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
Jack Robbins, general manager for Richmond,
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
the Publisher, following the sale of his firm's
number, "La Veeda," immediately started giving
CLEVELAND SHEETJVIUSIC TRADE BIG publicity to two songs from his company's cata-
Several Clevelanders are planning to attend log, "Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere" and "Gra-
the annual convention of the National Associa- nada," the former number from the pens of
tion of Sheet Music Dealers, in New York, June Louis Weslyn and Max Kortlander, and the
14-16. Cleveland sheet music dealers report latter from the pens, of Joe McKiernan and Nor-
the biggest demand in many months for sheet man Spencer. Like "La Veeda," it is described
music. The Robert L. White Music Co. and as a Castilian fox-trot.
The initial drive on these numbers will be
the McMillen Music Store each report unprece-
dented calls for popular pieces. The Cleveland arranged for the band and orchestra field. Other
department stores are more and more featuring numbers which appear are "Somebody," song
sheet music as merchandise. The five-and-ten- and one-step, and "My Cuban Dream," described
cent store managers say the calls this Spring for as a new rhythm fox-trot, all of which are al-
popular numbers and new songs are the heaviest ready in excellent demand.
on record.
Alch-Silverman, Inc., Dover, Del., has been
incorporated to enter the music publishing field
w.th a capital of $100,000.
150% Profit on
^ f AMOUS
McKINLEY
10 CENT MUSIC
RELEASED 1
1920 Novelty Song Sensation
•• THEY ALWAYS WEAR 'EM "
ttf.fi
Mid rf lhay
IM* M ,
Wl© (halt
Used by some of the best acts In vaudeville.
Dealen
and Jobbers write for sample and special prices on this
catchy number.
Take our advice—get plenty.
MUMME MUSIC PUBLISHER
Prompt Delivery
MUSIC PUBLISHERS PRESS
2 0 3 Wast 40th Street
1510 So. 8th St.. Quincy, III.
ALWAYS IN DEMAND
New York City
SECULAR
Evening Brines Rest and You
There's A Long, Long Trail
The Magic of Your Eyea
My Rosary for You
Mother Machree
Kiss Me Again
Starlight Love
Can't Yo* Heah Me Callln', Caroline
Ring Out! Sweet Bells of Peace
Spring's a Lovable Ladye
Dear Little Boy of Mine
Sorter Miss You
Smllin' Through
Who Knows f
Values
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••<
Remick Song Hits
"Hiawatha's Melody of Love"
"Your Eyes Have Told Me So"
'I'm Always Falling in Love"
and New Catalogs
(With the Other Fellow's Girl)
"My Isle of Golden Dreams"
"Venetian Moon"
"La Veeda"
"In Your Arms"
"When He Gave Me You"
Now Ready for 1920
YOU ARE SURE TO HAVE CALLS
Brtter Music, Better Paper, Better Titles
Chicaea MCKINLEY M U S I C CO. NewYork
Our
In any style or quantity. Our equipment insures best results.
Sample copies and prices submitted on request.
40 NEW NUMBERS
Free CH1HI()|)*> with stock orders. We pay
(or vnur advertising. Our music is as
staple us wheat.
Write for samples.
RELEASED!
—MUSIC PRINTING—
To 6000 McKINLEY Agents:
All of the Best Reprints and more
Big Selling Copyrights than any
other 10 Cent Edition.
On Sunday last the Jerome H. Remick & Co.
ball team played the National Vaudeville Ar-
tists' team at Dyckman field. The score ended
11—10 in favor of the National Vaudeville Ar-
tists' aggregation.
SACRED
Teach Me To Pray
I Come To Thee
The Silent Voice
A Little While
It Was For Me
Ever At Best
(Mother of Mine)
I "The Hen and the Cow"
4
'
(Only a Dream of the Past)
AND MANY OTHERS
'I'll Be With You When the
Clouds Roll By"
;: J E R O M E H . REMICK & CO. :
t
N E W YORK
DETROIT
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Haunting, Dreamy, Sensational' vg; Waltz Song Success
HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHT
Chicago
McKINLEY MUSIC COMPANY
New York

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