NOVEMBER
TIlE
24, 1923
MTTSIC
TRADR
63
REVIEW
LYMAN RECORDS ARE POPULAR
MARKS IN NEW YORK THEATRES
Western Orchestra Recordings on Brunswick
Catalog Meeting With Popular Demand
Publishing Firm Arranges "Songwriters' Festi
vals" in the Local Theatres
That ;i ll good things an d w ise do not cOlll e
out of the East is pretty we ll proved by the
uninter ru pted ca re er of s ucces s of Abe Lyman
and His Orchestra. A yea r or so ago, when A be
Frank, the we ll- k nown hotel man, wa s place d
in char ge of th e .\mbassador Hotel in Los A n
ge le s, he made every effort to s ecure the best
possi bl e music for th .e no w famous Coc oanut
Grove ball room that is to-day the dancin g
~{ ecca of all filmdom a nd every bod y else of
co nseq uence in the Southern Ca lifornia city.
c\be Ly man, then playing with a seven-piece
orchestra at the Ship Cafe in Los Angeles, was
chosen, and, increasin g hi s pe rsonn el to twelve
me n, he and hi s band ha ve fo r ei g h teen months
been ma ki n g thin gs hum there. A few weeks
~ince,
lh e Brun s wick R ecord in g Exped ition
mad e its first trip to the Coast to r ecord the
bi g dancing orchestra s like Paul As h 's in Sa n
Francisco, Abe Lyman's in Lo s Ange le s, and
s o on . The first stop in Los Ange les netted
tbe record people sixtee n numbers recorded by
Abe Lyman's aggregation, a nd eve ryone of
the sixteen numbers re cord ed was prono unced
perfect. Among Lyman's fir s t num ber s for re
lease was "M idnig ht Rose," the tremendou sly
popular ball ad fox -trot hit that is being dance d
to from coast to coast. This · recordin g has
certainl y set the pace and the subseq uen t re
leases of the Lym a n numbers, "No, No, N ora"
a nd "Cut Yo ur self a P iece of Cake," have proved
of like merit.
Sheet music, phonograph rec o rd a nd piano
ro ll deal e rs are bei ng give n an exce ption a l
aTllount of co -op eration by thr E. B. Marks
Music Co. in all lo ca liti es in )Jew York by the
arrange me nt of a series of "Songwriters Fes ti
\ a ls" in va ri olls theatres. The wr iters of "O h
Didn 't It Rain," "Ki ss Me vVith Yo ur Eyes,"
"That's a Lot of B unk ," "Just for To-night,"
"March of the S iamese" and other E. B. Mar ks
nu mb ers a r e brou gh t to the theatres on t hes·e
ni g hts after bei n g billed a week in adv a nce and
g ive a program of their late st n um bers in ad di
tion to a revu e of t heir former hits.
One theatre in ev ery section of New York
ha s been selected for th ese nights, in c ludin g
· Inwood, \V ashi n .t; ton Heights, Ford a m, the mic1
~ e c tion of the I\ ronx, lower TIron x, Yorkvill e,
Harlem, t he East Side and four theatres in
vario us parts of Brooklyn. Thus all the num
bers on th ~ )\'larl
Two of the se nights have a lready be en held
wit h th e resu lt that the dea lers' in thes e sec
tions had calls fo r the num ber s su ng by the
pat ron s of the th eatre on th ei r way home. This
made itse lf apparent by the orders which came
into t he office on the followin g day s.
VON TILZER IN NEW OFFICES
Occupies Entire Third Floor in Building at
1587 Broadway, New York
TWO NEW SAXOPHONE NUMBERS
NEW SHERMAN. CLAY & CO. SONGS
Am ong the new son gs a dd ed to the cata log
of Sh erman, Clay & ' Co. are "O ut of Sig ht, Out
of Mind ," by H arry 0\ven a nd Vin (c nt Rose,
a nd "Sle ep," by. Earl ,·Lcbeig. The N ew York
offices of this publi'S hin'~~~f;ous e are introducin g
th e num ber to the orcb'c~tras in 'its territory and
bot h numbers are fi'i cli'ls:'Javor in many pro
grams. It is und ers to o~J ;tna t both of th ese
is sues are booked for early ie'lease.
]. R. Jones has written the wo rd s and Edward
C McCormick th e mus ic of a new ba llad en
titled "Out in the Dese rt Wa y," published by
.\1a ck's Song Shop, Pa lestine, Ill. It has a l
ready ac hiev ed some popula rity.
The Harry V on Tilzer Music Publishing Co.
has leased the en tire third floo r at 1587 Broa d
way, so uth west corner of Fo·rty-eighth stre'e t,
for a term of years . This floor was the ori ginal
horn e of the Na tion al Vaudevi J].e Artists and
is an ideal loc ation for a popul ar m usic pub
lisher.
This move to much la r ger space by the above
h ouse is furthe r evidence of the gr eat progress
made by the Von Tilzer o'rganization si nce its
reorgan izati on. Its present catalog ha s been
most active and some n ew issues are shortly t o
be announced. P lans for making the Von Tilzer
o rganizatio n one of th e lead ing houses in the
pop ular publish in g field ar e quite extensi ve and
th e n ew home, making possible lar ge pro fe s
s ional ro oms, is one of th e first.
Richmond-Robbins, Inc., Publishes Dornberger's
" Valse Leone" and "Saxophone Scandals"
C ha rlie Dornberger, saxop honist w ith George
vVhit e's Scanda ls, has composed two saxophone
so los, e ntitled "Va lse Leone" and "Saxophone
Scand als," which Ric hm ond-Robb in s, Inc., are
publishing. Mr. Do rnbe rger is a distinguished
a rti st on \he saxopho n e and has been lea din g
an orchestra of his own. He appea r ed with the
1922 production of George Vi hi be's Scandals a nd
is now w ith the 1923 unit. His work in the
orches tra is an outs tandin g- feature. The Rich
mond-Robbins cata log of sa xophone solos now
includes the works of Rud y Wiedoeft, world 's
prem ier saxophonist, and Clyde Doerr, as well.
and ",ak. your own condltlon. hut"ad of bel,..
at the mercy of them.
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