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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
FEBRUARY 28, 1925
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Hinds, Hay den & Eldredge, Inc., Publishers, New York City
trot for the first time and later it was one of
their features by radio. This quickly estab-
lished "Nola" as a dance number and the pub-
lisher immediately forwarded orchestrations in
Composition by the Late Felix Arndt Continues fox-trot time to the leading orchestra leaders
to Grow in Favor Despite Long Time Since in all parts of the country. It undoubedly be-
came the outstanding instrumental hit of 1922
Published
and the early part of 1923 and, of course, con-
"Nola," which has found such favor as a fox- tinues to maintain much of its popularity.
In 1923 Adelaide and Hughes, Florence Wal-
trot with dance orchestras, theatres and in pho-
toplay houses during the past season and also ton and Maurice and Lenora Hughes took up
a? a solo number by concert artists and in other "Nola" as a special feature dance number. This
brought further popularity to this offering.
Bill Baker used it in the Music Box Revue for
a full season. George Carey, xylophone soloist
of Sousa's band, and the popular pianists, Roy
Bargy, Frank Banta, Joseph Daily, as well as
Frederick Fradkin, the solo violinist, played the
number with unusual success. The latter also
recorded the number with his own original ar-
rangement for Brunswick records. Jascha
Gurewich, the saxophone virtuoso, has pro-
claimed this number the greatest instrumental
novelty ever written and many other outstand-
ing artists seem to have a similar opinion.
The publisher is firmly of the belief that
"Nola" has not reached its peak and is antic-
ipating that before the year is over the demand
and sales for this charming composition will
have increased double to what they are at the
present time.
"Nola" Popularity Is
£
Still on the Increase
Felice Arndt
Book of Songs for Ukulele
Issued by Witmark & Sons
New Volume Contains a Number of Excellent
Selections Taken From the Witmark "Black
and White" Series of Songs.
M. Witmark & Sons have issued an attractive
book of songs arranged for ukulele that is likely
lo prove a quick and substantial seller. The
collection comprises a number of the greatest
New Quincke Go. Numbers
Among the new compositions by Western
writers, published by W. A. Quincke & Co., of
Los Angeles, Cal., is "Regular Fellows," a fox
forms, and which has had national popularity, trot ballad by Jack R. Tenney, composer of
is the work of the late Felix Arndt. As a piano "Mexicali Rose." Judging from the early re-
silhouette it was recorded on the Victor records ceptions this number has received it bears indi-
in 1915 and was first released in sheet music cations of being another Pacific Coast hit. An-
form by the present publisher, Sam Fox Pub- other of these issues is "Thine and Mine Alone,"
a semi-classic ballad by Opal McDevitt, the
lishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, at that time.
The popularity of the number was immediate, composer of "Portland." This number is being
demonstrating that the public, while favoring exploited extensively by the Quincke concern.
popular music, appreciates compositions of the There have also been added to the catalog three
better type. The original sales on this number little teaching pieces by Perry Burton Arant
were also produced by the renditions of pian- entitled "In the Meadows," "Valse Tendre" and
ists who gave it its initial popularity and who "Longing."
successfully presented it in the same manner as
that of the composer.
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In 1922 Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Penn-
sylvania Orchestra rendered "Nola" as a fox-
BOSTON
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old and new ballad successes of the famous
"Witmark Black and White Series." They have
all been specially edited by no less an authority
on the ukulele than May Singhi Breen. The
volume, which retails at 50 cents, is attractively
gotten up, and the arrangements for ukulele
a r e splendidly presented, t h e engraving
throughout being on a high plane of excellence.
The fact that the cover of this book bears
the inscription, "No. 1," carries the suggestion
of similar collections in the. future. Ukulele en-
thusiasts will welcome such old and new favorites
as "My Wild Irish Rose," "Sweet Adeline,"
"Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin', Caroline?," "Be-
cause," "Where the River Shannon Flows,"
"Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing,"
"Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder,"
"Let the Rest of the World Go By"—and
such up-to-date successes as Penn's lovely
"Sunrise and You" and his lively "Sing Along!"
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