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JANUARY 16, 1926
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Song Accorded Recognition
After Nearly a Decade
Treharne's "Mother, My Dear," Now Sung by
John McCormack, Lay Dormant for Long
Period
How many song writers are attracted by the
lure of writing a successful song! Every now
and then some startling headline announces the
fortunes received from an "Over There," an
"Alexander's Rag Time Band," a "Rosary," a
"Road to Mandalay," etc.
The amateur immediately sets to work to
write, whistle, hum or strum a tune. Speaking
conservatively, one out of ten million of such
attempts receive recognition, the others are
consigned to the waste-basket.
Music publishing, no matter how carefully
planned, is at best guesswork. Previous ex-
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perience, data, musicianship, are all of little
avail when it comes to picking a winner. To
relate a typical instance:
Bryceson Treharne, whose songs have made
a strong impression on the musical public, went
from Australia to Europe in 1913 to study; first
to Milan, then to Paris, and in July, 1914, to
Munich to see the annual Wagner Festspiel
and also the Mozart Festspiel in nearby Salz-
berg. Instead, he saw Armageddon.
Warned too late of the outbreak of the war,
he, with a large party of English tourists, got
as far as Lindau in Bavaria, from whence one
can see the tantalizingly neutral hills of Switzer-
land, only ten miles away. The party was in-
terned and Treharne's health broke down com-
pletely. The doctors gave him only a few
months to live, and he was one of those fortunate
enough to be exchanged. After his exchange,
finding no outlet in England, he came to
America.
His many compositions were taken up by vari-
ous publishers and he was launched as an ac-
companist and composer.
Of all the songs
which he wrote, however, there was one to
which he did not wish to attach his own name.
The publishers hesitated to accept it and it was
not included in the group of songs presented
by those artists featuring his compositions.
This song, "Mother, My Dear," has since been
rendered by the greatest of artists. It has been
featured in moving picture palaces for weeks
at a time and now enjoys the largest sale of
any song written by Bryceson Treharne.
Each Mother's Day it is sung in concerts,
churches and homes. This year, 1926, nine
years after publication, it was taken up by John
McCormack, who made it his only encore num-
ber in the famous annual Victor Hour when
broadcasting on New Year's night.
This song shows a steady increase in popu-
larity and should be an inspiration to every
song-writer.
Witmark Entertainment
Material Catalog in Demand
Firm Reports Present Season Has Already
Reached High Mark in Demand for Such
Material
This is the busy season for the producers of
amateur shows and entertainments generally, in-
cluding, of course, that never-failing source of
pleasure and revenue, the minstrel show. And,
as usual, the Entertainment Material Catalog
of M. Witmark & Sons is a much-thumbed and
generally consulted medium. For years the
Witmark Entertainment Material Catalog has
been the standby with many amateur producers,
and the present season has already reached a
high-water mark in business along these lines.
The good old staple favorites are in as much
demand as ever, such as the unique Witmark
opening and closing choruses, the series of bril-
liant comic operettas and one-act musical pieces
by Arthur A. Penn, the Standard Joke Books
and other entertaining volumes of use to the
minstrel show manager, the skits and sketches
and playlets, the musical novelties and so on,
all down the line, not forgetting the material
for every kind of makeup, and James Young's
fine book devoted to that important art.
Among recent additions to the Witmark En-
tertainment Material Catalog may be mentioned
the new minstrel opening chorus, "Mikado
Gems," a potpourri of the best-known airs from
that popular opera, and already a big favorite,
of course. "Under the Sea" is another new
short musical piece for children by Jessie Mae
Jewitt, always a popular writer. Last, but not
least, there is the first volume of the Witmark
Choruses, old and more recent song favorites
especially arranged for glee club and community
sings. They are in big demand even at this
early date.
Of recent years dealers everywhere have
found it very advantageous to carry the leading
features of the Witmark Entertainment Catalog
in stock and to keep posted on the balance.
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YOU AND I
SWEET MAN
MIGHTY BLUE
FLAMIN' MAMIE
I MISS MY SWISS
IT MUST BE LOVE
LANTERN OF LOVE
DON'T WAKE ME UP
TEACH ME TO SMILE
THE COUPLE UPSTAIRS
THE MIDNIGHT WALTZ
PAL OF MY CRADLE DAYS
BE ON THE LEVEL WITH MOTHER
FIVE FOOT TWO, EYES OF BLUE
I'M SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD
I'M TIRED OF EVERYTHING BUT
YOU
WHEN THE ONE YOU LOVE LOVES
YOU
TOO MANY PARTIES AND TOO MANY
PALS
WHEN
I DREAM
OF THE
LAST
WALTZ WITH YOU
ALL THAT SHE IS IS AN OLD FASH-
IONED GIRL
IF WE CAN'T BE THE SAME OLD
SWEETHEARTS
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Material of this kind provides the dealers with
an entirely new field to which to cater, and
the majority are availing themselves of the
opportunity.
Publishes Three New Songs
Jack Mills, Inc., music publisher of New York,
announces the publication of three new popular
songs.
They are "If You're Cheatin' on Your Baby"
by Elmer Barr and Billy Meyers; "Those Crazy
Doctors Can't Fool Me" by Al Bryan and
Harry Seymour; and "Everybody Gets Some-
body But Me" by Edgar Dowell and Henry
Creamer.
The Bud Allen Music Co., New York, has
accepted for publication a new novelty num-
ber by Spencer Williams called "Georgia Grind."
This is a blues number by a writer who has con-
tributed some very successful songs of this
caliber.
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