THE
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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
OCTOBER
6. 1923
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YODEL SONGS NEVER SEEM TO LOSE THEIR POPULARITY
Characteristic Tyrolean Style of Singing Steady Favorite With the Music-buying Public-Yodel
Attractive Feature of New Belwin Waltz, "Merry-Go-Round"
Sam
A famous poet once said, " Lov e is old, but
ye t ever new." Th e same phrase could ju st l)
be applied t o the old Tyr olean s tyle of singing
"The Yodel."
Reviewing th e va riou" yode l son gs which ha ve
ga ined popularity in the United State s in the
past t\v enty-five ye ars, w e may say that out
of the m any of these which the American so ng
market offered one or two di s tin c t yodel m e l
o dies have ga ined popularity a nd have estab
lish ed th emse lve s in the grace of the American
publi c to an exte nt that no matter wh e n and
why th ey are publicly produced they meet w ith
approval..
The yodel song, popular in /\m er ica to-day.
is o f a characteristic natur e, su ch as "Sleep.
Baby, Sleep," "Emmet's Lullaby" or " Hi Le,
Hi Lo," e t c., although the yodel has bee n
used effe ctively as a m inor part of a song. At
the tim e these older yode l songs were in vog ue,
lhe sa xop hone, Amcrica's famou s dan ce orche s
tra in s trum en t, was pra c ticall y unknown. With
the popularity of th e saxop hon e so tre men
dously es tabli s hed an d cons idering the po ss i-
bilit ies th e charac teri s ti c yodel offers from a
Illusical s tandpoint, we beli eve th at the time ha s
now come when th e yodel has a right to be com
mer ciali zed in a more modern form.
Belwin, Inc. , has re ce ntl y publi shed a walt z
<.;ntitled "Merry-Go -Round." It is a character
is tic, melodious wa ltz number with an ori g inal
verst and lyr ically developing th e yo de l in a
sens ible manner. The fir st four bars of th e
c horu s are a yodel, the nex t four bars are lyr
icall y translating what this yodel m ea ns and so
on throughout the entire c horu s of th e flew
J.>e lwin number.
Th e dance orchestration is ar rang ed with a
yode l inte rlude, g ivin h: the saxo phon e an oppor
tlmit y to· perform in a manner neve r heard of
by th e American dance public. The possibili
ties which thc saxophone offers in this par
ticular field ar e wide.
Every yo d el is of a m e lodiou s nature and
sho uld be we lcom ed by the ,\mcri can dan ce
orchestra, as we ll as by the public, as it con
stitutes an inno va tion and a d epa rtur e from
the pr ese nt-d ay dan ce mu sic .
AK RO N, 0., Oc tober J.- ·One of the most novel
and complete music s tor es in thi s se ction of
the cit y was opened a t 81 So uth Howard stree t,
thi~ c ity, r ece ntly by Sa rn Smolin under the
titl e of the Entertain e rs Song S hop .
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Smolin is an accomplished musician a nd has
ap peared frequently in va ude v ille with hi s or
chestra. .'\ complete stoc k of the .l atest popu
la r s he et mu sic, as well as orchestrations and
the re cog ni zed clas s ica l edit ion s, is han dled in
the sto re, which is a lread y winning a full meas
ure of su ccess.
NEW VIOLIN DUO ISSUED
IRVING MILLS IN CANADA
The New Yo rk Co urier is th e publi s her of a
" Duo for O ne \ ' iolin," adapted on the th e me
of Yradirr's "La Paloma" and dedi ca ted to Frit z
Kreisler. In its original manus<:ript form as
dedic a ted to Fritz Kreisler the author did not,
of co urse, employ an y s pecial s igns or s ugg est
any partic ular fingering as relating to it s per
fo rman ce, but since its publication for general
distribution the composer ha s added a very
det ai led fingering syste m, s ipls, indi ca tion s, etc..,
whi c h appear o n tlt e inn e r front co \'er. To
those intereste d in a n unu sua l work . this "Duo
for O ne Violin" has unu s ual possibilities.
Irvin g- Mills, vice-president of Jack Mill s,
Inc., is aw ay on a trade trip which will include
a ten weeks' trip throu g h Canada and th e
:vliddle We<:t of th e U nited Sta t es. While a\vay
he will feature "Love Is Ju s t a Flower,"
"Havana," "Just a Gid That lvlen f.'orget" a nd
., Down-hearted Blues."
"YAWNING" AND ITS RESULTS
In
"Ya w nin g," the new Tr vin g rerlin, Inc., nov
elty fox-trot written by ~Iilt Ha gen and .'\l ex.
Gerber, was r ece ntly tried o ut in va ud evi lle ,,,ith
peculiar re su lts. The so ng is, in reality, a yaw n
set to music and a yawn 's co nta g iou s, with th e
result that th e act singin g the song ha d mo s t
of the audience in yawns. The ya wn was, how
ever, followed by applause.
Cora ' ". H a rrin gto n, Win s ton-Sal elll , N. c.,
is the composer and publi s her of "Th e re ssa."
"KEEP TURNINC';: DON'T HESITATE
LONG To DECIDE; .
KEEP TURNI N6, No MATTER
WHAT THE MUSIC STAY DIGNIFIED.
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NEW SONG SHOP IN AKRON, O.
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(;onfrcy'~ con ce ptions o( some or the
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Smolin, Well-known Orchestra Leader,
Opens the Entertainers Song Shop
BERLIN NUMBER WINS ATTENTION
There wa s r ece ntly added to the catalog of
Ir ving Be rlin, Inc., a new song e ntitl ed "No
body Ca n Love M e Like My Old Tomato Ca n,"
w hi c h ha s made an impression with a number
of dramatic crit ics on New York daili es , in
cludin g S. J ay Kaufman, who writes a column
for the Evening Te le g ra m. In his co lumn, in
on e of th e re cent is s ue s of the Telegram, he
car ried a [ull chorus of the above song and
made so me ve ry po intrd comm e nts regarding
the poss ibilitie s and the popularity of thi s iss ne.