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The Music Trade Review
MAY 8, 1926
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New York
New Sherman-Clay Numbers
by Portland Composer
"The Cotton Pickers" and "The Song of the
Night" Going Well in Music Stores of That
PORTLAND, ORE., May 1.—Two new numbers,
"The Cotton Pickers" and "The Song of the
Night," releases by Sherman, Clay & Co., of San
Francisco and other Pacific Coast cities, have
appeared on the retail counters in Portland.
The author is a Portland composer, Lena W.
Chambers. These publications are teaching
pieces designed particularly for the primary
grades.
Herman Kenin, director of the Multnomah
Hotel Indian Grill Orchestra, and James Taft,
the arranger of the' orchestra music, are the
writers of a tuneful fox-trot called "I've De-
cided That You Ought to Know." The num-
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ber has been programmed several times recently
with successful responses. In an interview Mr.
Kenin recently said that there is a great demand
for the orchestra to play the following num-
bers, "Talk About My Sweetie" (Feist),
"Always" (Berlin), "Give Me To-day" (Sher-
man-Clay), "Tampeako Blues" (Triangle) and
"Croon a Little Lullaby" (Sherman, Clay &
Co.).
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HORSES
SWEET HAN
WHAT A MAN
SITTIN' AROUND
SLEEPY TIME GAL
SYMPATHY WALTZ
HI DIDDLE DIDDLE
SOMEBODY'S LONELY
MY CASTLE IN SPAIN
PRETTY LITTLE BABY
THE SONG OF THE SEA
AFTER I SAY I'M SORRY
BY THE SIGN OF THE ROSE
LONESOME MELODY O' MINE
SO DOES YOUR OLD MANDARIN
SUPPOSE I HAD NEVER MET YOU
LET'S TALK ABOUT MY SWEETIE
FIVE FOOT TWO, EYES OF BLUE
SHE'S A CORN-FED INDIANA GIRL
DON'T WAKE ME IIP (Let Me Dream)
I'M SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD
TOO MANY PARTIES AND TOO MANY
PALS
SHE WAS JUST A SAILOR'S SWEET-
HEART
I NEVER KNEW HOW WONDERFUL
YOU WERE
Quincke Folio of
Band and Orchestra
New Publication of Los Angeles Sends Out
Folio Containing Sample Parts of This Cat-
alog
W. A. Quincke & Co., 430 South Broadway,
Los Angeles, Cal., which, in addition to some
very timely popular songs, have long been
known as publishers of distinctive standard ma-
terial for particular purposes, including numbers
suitable for photoplays, concerts, church and
school work, have just forwarded to the trade
a folio containing sample parts of their band
and orchestra selections. These sample parts
include such numbers as "It's Lonesome in
Bluebird Land," "Wonderful Dreams," "Mexicali
Rose"; numerous marches, waltzes and other
publications of merit.
Quincke & Co. also are publishers of the
Littig Method for Hawaiian steel guitar, tenor
banjo, ukulele, which includes a series of meth-
ods and folios instructive and entertaining in
character. There is a very interesting catalog
of steel guitar music and ukulele music by the
same firm.
C. E. Mills Appears
for New Vestal Bill
Advocates Abolition of Clause Relating to
Compulsory Licensing for Mechanical Re-
production
Write for Dealers' Price
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radio by Jones and Hare, the Happiness Boys,
and other artists.
Among those who will sing the still newer
offering "No More Liquor for Me" is Sophie
Tucker. It makes an ideal vaudeville number
and should be a great gang song.
Billy Fagan in Chicago
Billy Fagan, formerly associated with the
New York professional staff of Jack Mills, Inc.,
is now in full charge of the Chicago office of
this publishing house. He is making his head-
quarters in the Jack Mills office in the Woods
Theatre Building, of that city.
Mr. Fagan's many friends in the trade will be
glad to hear of his advancement and his new
responsibilities and will wish him success in
his present campaign on the Mills novelty, "So
Is Your Old Lady."
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 30.—C. E. Mills,
chairman of the board of directors of the Music
Publishers Protective Association and executive
member of the American Society of Com-
posers, Authors and Publishers, appeared before
the House Committee on . Patents to-day in
support of the Vestal bill, which provides for
general revision of the copyright laws. In voic-
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
ing approval of the proposed legislation, he ad-
The
Review. In it advertisements are inserted
vocated abolition of that phase of the bill re-
lating to compulsory licensing for mechanical free of charge to men who desire positions.
reproduction. The motion picture producers and
distributors of America also had a representa-
tive to voice favor to the Vestal bill in the
person of Arthur W. Weil.
Thorvald Selberg, register of copyrights, ex-
plained in detail the Vestal bill, House Bill
10,434, and the Perkins bill, House Bill 5,841,
both of which amend and consolidate acts re-
specting copyright, and permit the United States
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Broadway Corp. Has
Two New Novelty Songs
"That's Where I Met My Girl" and "No More
Liquor For Me," Both Likely to Have Wide
Popularity
The Broadway Music Corp., 723 Seventh ave-
nue, New York City, of which Will Von Tilzer
is president, has, in addition to its national bal-
lad success "Just Around the Corner," two nov-
elty songs, one of which is already going over in
a big way and another which should have no
trouble in advancing along to popularity follow-
ing its introductory period.
The new numbers are "That's Where I Met
My Girl" and "No More Liquor For Me."
"That's Where I Met My Girl" is already being
programmed by vaudeville acts played by prom-
inent orchestras and has been introduced on the
Everybody Worth While
both in
CONCERT AND VAUDEVILLE
Is Singing It
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