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OCTOBER
THE MUSIC TRADE
16, 1920
REVIEW
63
He turned to me and with a broad, wholesome
smile replied: "O! just to get there."
"Yes; but where, where?" I insisted with Autograph of Babe Ruth Himself on the Title
Geo. Hamilton Green Secures Some Excellent
Publicity Through Article Appearing in Many curiosity tuned to a high pitch.
Page of "Grieving for You"
For a moment he blew rings of smoke* from
Newspapers Telling of His Achievements
his cigar, then slowly whispered: "To success."
It is somewhat the usual thing nowadays for
Needless to say 1 was more puzzled than ever. "jazz combinations" to appear in the role of
Herewith is reproduced a fine piece of pub-
licity for Geo. Hamilton Green, the well-known What had the success of "Alabama Moon" to writers of popular songs, and Joe Gibson, Joe
composer and pianist, his song, "Alabama do with him? And I quizzed and pumped, Riband and Joe Gold, known as the "3 Joes,"
Moon," and the publisher of that work, the Sam nagged and begged, until I finally drew from
Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland, O., sent out by him the following story:
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
"You see, it's mine," he said. "Yep! and I
Music under the caption, "Has the New Com- wrote it one night when I was musing about
poser a Chance?" and which has reached thou- the good old times—the times when I left
Signature of Babe Ruth
sands of readers. It is an interview Mr. Green Omaha as a kid and struck out for myself look-
had some time ago with Laszlo Schwartz:
ing for success. My first success was to get a a successful trio, are no exception. They are
No one will be more surprised than George job in Chicago at a dollar a day. Well, I plunked the authors of a new song published by Leo
Hamilton Green when he reads these lines, for away at my xylophone at a dollar per until I Feist, Inc., entitled "Grieving for You."
The trio played a Summer season's engage-
the chances are he has almost forgotten the fel- tired of the glory of it. You can imagine with
low who joined him at the table in a fashionable a dollar a day there was hardly anything but ment at the Bal Tabarin, in Hartford, Conn.,
New York hotel on the night when he first had glory and scant meals in holding down that job. and while there the New York Yankees played
his "Alabama Moon" tried.out by the orchestra.
"Then I struck out for New York. I made an exhibition game in Hartford. During the
He surmised just as little that I was a scribe as up my mind that I'd be one of the best in my evening the ball players visited the Bal Tabrin,
I did that he was the composer of the plaintive profession. But I didn't stop at that—I also where the "3 Joes" were featuring their own
melody which had set the audience a humming. made up my mind I'd let the world know about compositions. Babe Ruth, of the Yankees, was
so impressed with the song "Grieving for You"
As I was humming the contaminating refrain it.
"Well, when I got to the top of my profes- that he insisted upon having several copies of
my glance fell upon the fellow opposite me.
The beautiful strain of melody unwound itself. sion I says to myself: 'Green, you can't stop it, which he autographed for his friends. A fac-
The stranger's face went through a whole gamut here; you're done with this job; now tackle simile of Babe's signature is shown herewith.
Leo Feist, Inc., by the way, could, without a
of emotional expressions. The wild applause of something else.'
stretch of imagination, sub-title the above num-
the dancers seemed rudely to awaken him from
"And so I did. I began to write songs.
his musings. The next moment he exclaimed:
"I tell you it takes a sincere and deep study ber as "Babe Ruth's Favorite Song."
of mob psychology and the fullest appreciation
"Gee, but it's great to get there!"
and understanding of the spirit of our times
"Get where?" said I in surprise.
ART HICKMAN SIGNS UP
and its complex tendencies for a fellow to write
a successful popular tune. Some fellows hit the Head of Famous Band to Write Exclusively for
bull's eye once—then never again. Make up
W., B. & S.
your mind if a fellow can repeat success in this
game it's no accident. It's the grand total of
Art Hickman, head of Art Hickman's Jazz
many years of experimenting, many years of
Band, now playing on the Ziegfeld Roof, and
sorrows and keen disappointments."
Ben Black, co-authors of "Hold Me," have
Meanwhile the orchestra had repeated the signed a contract to write exclusively for Water-
lulling waltz twice in succession and yet the son, Berlin & Snyder. Following this announce-
crowd was clamoring for more and more. ment it is understood that the Art Hickman's
Green's face lit up again with a beaming, boyish Orchestra is to confine its future activities to
smile. Caressingly he blew a fantastic figure Eastern territory.
into midair and added: "But, by jove, it is
worth all the hard knocks—wheji you finally get
there."
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