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800 Newspapers to Be Used in Link-up
With "Footloose," a New Sam Fox Number
Song Takes Title From New Story, a Sequel to "The Flapper Wife"—Song to Be Featured hi
Connection With Serial in Campaign More Varied and Larger Than the Former One
"TfOOTLOOSE," a fox-trot song, has been
*• selected as the musical hook-up to the story
of the same name announced as the successor
to "The Flapper Wife." This story is also by
Beatrice Burton and the NEA Service, Inc., and
association of eight hundred newspapers in the
United States have arranged a program for the
exploitation of both the song and story which
appears to be the last word in co-operative pub-
licity campaigns in which newspapers through-
out the country and a popular publishing organi-
zation combine their particular interests for
mutual advantage.
The experience and knowledge obtained from
"The Flapper Wife" campaign has been used
to further the "Footloose" drive. Thus the ar-
rangements are wider in scope, are more thor-
ough and from the preliminary details to the
bombardment of publicity, which accompanies
the height of the program, intense interest is
assured.
Of the many hundreds of newspapers lining
up on the "Footloose" story and song, most
of them were actively interested in the co-oper-
ative drive on "The Flapper Wife." The
former, while most successful, can, however, be
considered as an educational experience which
will serve to further the interests of both the
"Footloose" song and story.
As far as the campaign on "Footloose" proper
is concerned there is no relationship with the
one that preceded it on "The Flapper Wife."
While it is true that some of the newspaper
interests on the former story will be continued
on Beatrice Burton's sequel, the co-operative
publicity and exploitation drive will be entirely
apart and distinct. Indeed, while many of the
same channels of publicity will naturally be
used in exploiting "Footloose," the directors
of both the story and song campaign have added
many new channels and angles of publicity.
This applies to both the preparatory publicity
interesting readers in the story, the accompany-
ing publicity with the story itself, and the many
new connections hooking up the song with the
story and exploiting both.
The Sam Fox Publishing Co., New York and
Cleveland, Ohio, publisher of "The Flapper
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Wife," is also the publisher of "Footloose."
Carl Rupp, who did the music for the former
song, is also the composer of "Footloose" and
the words have been contributed by Hal Coch-
ran.
Ned Wayburn, who for many years was re-
sponsible for the alluring and spectacular dances
in the Ziegfeld Follies and who has often been
referred to as the dance king, has devised the
"Footloose" strut. This undoubtedly will later
be added as one of the dance features of a
current musical production.
The first record of "Footloose" has been re-
leased by the Victor Talking Machine Co. It
will be on sale starting with August 14. Paul
Whiteman and His Orchestra were selected by
the NEA Service, Inc., and the Victor Co. to
make this initial musical number. A vocal ver-
sion of the song by Billy Murray appears on
the same record. So "Footloose," in both song
and instrumental form, is available at almost the
start of the campaign. The Sam Fox Publishing
Co. will release the piano copies of the number
on August 5 and orchestrations are also made
available.
The song will be sung by more vaudevillians
than was "The Flapper Wife" because both of
the singers who took part in the previous pub-
licity and many more will co-operate in the
current campagin on "Footloose."
The newspaper publicity assures co-operation.
More dance orchestras, more photoplay houses
and more radio entertainers and orchestras will
be booked for the "Footloose" campaign. In
a short time "Footloose," in both song and
instrumental form, should be available on every
word roll and every record.
For the sheet music dealer, the roll dealer
and the retail music store there will be extra
title pages, window strips, hangers, cut-outs,
and a wide variety of other attention arresters
and sales creators. These will undoubtedly be
put to good use by retailers everywhere because
the publicity in all other directions will arouse
interest and create a desire for the song and
the posters and other material will only serve
to close the sale. Later there will be a "Foot-
loose" week and throughout the whole of the
campaign there will be national activities that
will serve to keep the purchasing public in a
buying mood.
What is of more importance to the dealer,
however, are the hook-ups that he will receive
through the newspaper in his city, from the local
orchestra renditions, from the radio and through
the appearances of vaudeville stars in his local-
ity. The dealers are urged, of course, to do
their share in co-operating not only with the
publishers of "Footloose" but with the local
newspaper exploiters. In every instance where
orchestrations are needed, or other material is
desirable, prompt shipment of the publicity mat-
ter will be made. Altogether the "Footloose"
story and campaign will be somewhat longer
than that given to its predecessor. The interest
throughout should be much more intense
through the numerous additional moves that are
to be made.
On the song the newspapers will print a
thematic of the chorus, will run pictures of
Carl Rupp, the composer, Ned Wayburn, the
deviser of the "Footloose" strut, and of Paul
Whiteman and Billy Murray, who made the
first Victor record. The Wayburn "Footloose"
strut will also be given to the newspaper read-
ers with diagrams and descriptions of how to
dance to the music. The lyric of the chorus
will be given wide publicity in several issues
in which the thematic does not appear. The
various vaudeville performers as they appear
locally and sing "Footloose" will be given write-
ups by the local dailies. All of the radio per-
formers will be given publicity which will help
add to the interest and special presentations of
the "Footloose" theme will be made by many
photoplay houses.
Before the height of this campaign is reached
with the eight hundred newspapers and the
many other avenues of "Footloose" propaganda,
this compound word will undoubtedly be the
most freely used in American history. The
name given the story lends itself so readily to
publicity purposes that the lure to use it cannot
be thrown aside. It will appeal to preachers,
those in charge of our courts, police authorities,
probation officers, traffic police, and all those of
the older generation who predict the flapper and
the cake-eater about to go to perdition. The
younger generation on the other hand will take
to it because it is the most apt description of
this new freedom which they have so hastily ac-
cepted. When it comes to dancing to the "Foot-
loose" strut, they will glory in it because it
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