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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 81 N. 24

Page 136 Text:

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THE
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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
DECEMBER 12, 1925
Sam Fox Go. Achieves
Success by Meeting Demand
By Catering to All Classes of Trade Cleveland
Company Has Won Secure Place in Industry
—Some Latest Offerings
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Proqrams Of The
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Almost any one can enter the music publish-
ing business (and a lot of them do) for, to
acquire the name of publisher, it is only neces-
sary to write a song and invest in the plates
and the printing of the same. In every decade
there are hundreds who start as publishers only
to discontinue with the issuance of their first
print. Others continue in a struggling way for
a period of years with more or less success. A
few only achieve the distinction of becoming
a music institution.
A publisher whose business develops perma-
nence joins the ranks of a select few and in
order to reach this important place in the in-
dustry he not only must publish meritorious but
essential works over a long period, and con-
tinue to contribute constructive ideas and pub-
lications for the needs of not only one division
of the market but practically all of them, includ-
ing the general public, the teaching, singing,
photoplay and various other channels. Those
are the earmarks of a national music publishing
institution. With all of this a certain responsi-
bility must be assumed, and it is the shouldering
of such responsibility that sets the music insti-
tution apart from the rank and file of publish-
ing organizations.
It is a long and tortuous road that must be
traveled before the publisher becomes the re-
sponsible organization and is looked to by the
teachers, the schools, the conservatories, the
colleges, concert artists, theatres and others
for their much-needed material. His must be
a long period of service.
Of the younger organizations that have
achieved the distinction of becoming national
music institutions none is more important than
that of the Sam Fox Publishing Co., of Cleve-
land, O. It has run the whole gamut of expe-
riences necessary to attain that end, served its
apprenticeship and has generously contributed
to the needs of the music world.
A catalog of the Sam Fox Publishing Co.
is, of course, one evidence of its national im-
portance. It contains thousands of items, all of
them important ones for some particular need.
Each year it makes considerable additions to
this catalog rounding out its influence. The
success that these new issues achieve shows
not only their merit, the care and importance
of selection, but knowledge of the requirements
of the particular phase of the music industry for
which they are produced to serve.
While the Sam Fox Publishing Co. is ac-
cepted as a national institution its importance,
as is that of all institutions, goes even further.
Music, it is said, knows no country, is re-
sponsible to no government. Once a publishing
organization attains the position of an institu-
tion its influence is naturally reflected inter-
nationally. In England it is represented by
Keith Prowse, Ltd., who operate numerous
branches throughout the British Isles. It has
outlets in other European centers. In Aus-
tralia a whole company is given over to the
exploitation of Sam Fox publications. There
it is known as Sam Fox Proprietory.
Of the newer publications added to the Fox
catalog that should be mentioned here is the
"English Ballad Series." The outstanding num-
ber of these new offerings is "My Song of Love
for You," closely followed by "Unless I Know"
and "To Sing Awhile."
In the popular field "Neapolitan Nights," a
love song by Harry D. Kerr, set to the music
of J. S. Zamecnik, is one of the most successful
of the Fall offerings. In the standard popular
numbers they have the well-loved "Indian
Dawn" and "Nola," which is popular both as a
piano silhouette and a fox-trot. In the latter
form it has appeared in several musical shows
on Broadway and elsewhere.
A Beautiful Ballad
In The New And
Distinctive
Sam Fox
English Ballad
Series
J/7/S Song
Is Sure 9o
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SamFoxQPubCo

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THE
DECEMBER 12, 1925
Bert Feldman, British
Publisher, Returns Home
Takes Back With Him the European Rights to
a Number of American Successes for Exploi-
tation Abroad
Bert Feldman, the London music publisher,
recently returned home after a quest for nov-
elties for. our British friends across the water.
Mr. Feldman made his local headquarters at the
offices of M. Witmark & Sons, of whose many
publications he holds the European rights.
The Feldman firm handles both the strictly
so-called popular songs and also ballads of the
more substantial type, and, although Mr. Feld-
man confesses that for the nonce the English
seem to have no taste for anything that is not
jazz, he has had considerable success with many
of the leading numbers of the Witmark Black
and White Series.
Mr. Feldman takes back with him a number
of interesting American novelties that will
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assuredly feed the jazz fires that at present rage
in London. He also takes several standard bal-
lads that will with' equal surety find a welcome
over there. Among these is the well-known
American success, "The Lamplit Hour," which
has a special interest, apart from its intrinsic
merits, for Britishers, inasmuch as Arthur A.
Penn's beautiful setting is to a poem by one
of England's famous authors, Thomas Burke.
With these FEIST Songs
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NOVELTY FOXTROT
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Don't Say You
Have Not Got
The ever popular song
SILVER THREADS AMONG THE
GOLD
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The great Baritone song
A SON OF THE DESERT AM I
The popular "Ave Maria" songs and
MASSES BY HARRISON MILLARD
The universally used
BELLAK'S NEW METHOD FOR
PIANO
Cyxic iyLEWS WWUNG
yttusic
Bert Feldman
Many of Penn's American successes in the Wit-
mark Black and White Series have been dupli-
cated in England, notably, of course, "Sunrise
and You" and "Smilin' Through." One of the
most successful of the out-and-out "popular"
songs in England is "Horsey, Keep Your Tail
Up," which, though published here by M. Wit-
mark & Sons, had to cross the Atlantic to be-
come a real hit.
David Guion's Quick
Rise to Popularity
His Concert Songs and Negro Spirituals Are
Being Found in Many Notable Programs
Two volumes—75c—each
The name of David Guion figures on many
a concert program these days and his composi-
tions are well represented. A number of them
are published by M. Witmark & Sons. The
most famous singers, concert and opera, are
constantly featuring either a Guion song or
one of Guion's splendid collection of negro
spirituals. At present his newest success is in
the current repertoire of a number of concert
singers. This is his delightful "Howdy Do,
Mis' Springtime," with the lyric by Ben Gor-
don, published by Witmark. It is a musical
gem. Meantime, his spirituals are in great and
always increasing demand. This is not surpris-
ing, as they represent the careful, painstaking
and inspired work of a brilliant young musician
whose life has been spent in his native South.
The popular Violin Folios
EVERY DAY MELODIES—3 VOLS.
Violin Solo 60c—Piano Ace. $1.00
Oliver Ditson Go. Adds
to Series Publications
The Graded Course "par excellence"
GORDON'S GRADED PIANO
COURSE
Nine grades—50c each
The revised, improved edition
JOUSSE'S CATECHISM OF MUSIC
The new, enlarged edition
BEYER'S PRELIMINARY METHOD
The popular, easy piano folios
EVERY DAY MELODIES
Violin and Piano Music, First Position
FAVORITE MELODIES SERIES
Playable by C Melody Saxophone
Insist on the
GORDON EDITIONS
Catalogs on application
Hamilton S. Gordon
141-5 West 36th St., New York, N. Y.
RAY
ENDERSON
The Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., has
added to its "Series of Compositions for Violin
and Piano" Stephen C. Foster's "My Old Ken-
tucky Home," transcription of which is by Karl
Rissland. To its "Trios for Violin, 'Cello and
Piano" have been added "Fairy Tale," by Karl
Komzak, "The Dancers," by Cedric W. Lamont,
"Minuet" in G, by Ludwig Van Beethoven,
"Forgotten," by Eugene Cowles and "Mem-
ories," by Charles Wakefield Cadman. To its
"Series for the Organ" have been added "Ro-
mance," by Rimsky-Korsakoff, "By the Lake,"
by Gordon Balch Nevin, "Humoresque," by Pe-
ter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, and "Prelude Religi-
oso," by Carl Wilhelm Kern.
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