Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 83 N. 8

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AUGUST 21, 1926
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The Music Trade Review
New Mother Song Issued
by L. Wolfe Gilbert
Century
Edition
Is the best buy and the
biggest seller in the sheet
music industry.
The above is not simply an
advertising statement, but
an unquestionable fact.
Ask the dealers who handle
the line—they know.
L. Wolfe Gilbert, one of the best known of
present-day song writers, is reaching the period
of his career where he is considered among the
pioneers. Certainly he has established a record
for almost a score of years of writing popular
songs of every type applicable to ever-changing
tastes.
When it is considered that in his early days
he was one of the first writers of Mississippi
steamboat songs, including the famous "Robert'
R. Lee," it can be readily seen that to review
his history one must delve fairly far into the
past. Later he contributed several numbers to
Century Music Pub. Go.
235 West 40th St.
Well-known Song Writer Releases "Under a
Wurzburger Tree" and "Keep a Little Sun-
shine in Your Heart"
CHERIE
I LOVE YOU
H A R M S INC.. 62 W 45TH SI.N.YC.
AMERICASfOPULAR
BALLAD SUCCESSES
ROSES OF PICARDY
THE WORLD ISV/ATTING^SUNRISE
IN THE GARDEN OP TO-MORROW
THE SONG OFSONGS
LOVES FIRST KISS
SMILETHRU YOUR TEARS
IF WINTER COMES
CHAPPELL-HARMS.INC.
185 MADISON AVE
NEW
YORK
HORSES
ADORABLE
BARCELONA
GEORGIANNA
WHAT A MAN
S1TTIN' AROUND
SYMPATHY WALTZ
HI DIDDLE DIDDLE
SOMEBODY'S LONELY
MY CASTLE IN SPAIN
PRETTY LITTLE BABY
AFTER I SAY I'M SORRY
THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU
BY THE SIGN OF THE ROSE
NOBODY WORRIES 'BOUT ME
YOU NEED SOMEONE TO LOVE
WHAT GOOD IS GOOD MORNING?
LET'S TALK ABOUT MY SWEETIE
HELLO, ALOHA. HOW ARE YOU?
WHERE'D YOU GET THOSE EYES
SHE'S A CORN FED INDIANA GIRL
I'M WALKING AROUND IN CIRCLES
LEAVE ME SOMETHING TO REMEM-
BER
I NEVER KNEW HOW WONDERFUL
YOU WERE
I WONDER WHERE MY BUDDIES
ARE TO-NIGHT
LEO
Harry Von Tilzer Offers
Two Songs for Fall
A REAL BIT OF MELODY
f FEIST;
Write for Dealers' Price
New York
Harry Von Tilzer, pioneer song writer and
publisher, 1587 Broadway, New York City, is
opening the season with two new songs,
"Under a Wurzburger Tree," and "Keep a
Little Sunshine in Your Heart." The latter
number was recently introduced by Ted Lewis
and His Band in his new show which opened
some time ago in Chicago.
The Wurzburger number will recall to many
members of the trade Harry Von Tilzer's hit
of twenty-four years ago called "Down Where
the Wurzburger Flows." All of Harry's friends
hope that the new song will duplicate the
earlier success.
Can't Go Wn
"Calling Me Home," by Well-known Song
Writer, Has All the Earmarks of a Sure
Success
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L. Wolfe Gilbert
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the period when the Hawaiian song was at its
best or at least when it was turned out in its
greatest quantities. He has been a consistent
writer of love songs and some of them, although
in popular style, are still remembered, such as
"Sweet Adair."
The records do not show that he took any
great part in the splurge of Mammy songs of a
few short years ago. Whether he disagreed
with the treatment of the idea of that period is
not known. His name, however, does not ap-
pear upon the title pages of any of the best-
known songs of the "loving" and "crying"
mammy days.
Possibly Wolfe Gilbert felt the style of that
period of "mammy" popularity was a desecra-
tion of a precious idea. At least that is the first
thought that comes to mind when reviewing the
Wolfe Gilbert mother song, "Calling Me Home."
He waited a long while to write this mother
song, but the time lost, seemingly, has been
well worth the delay. "Calling Me Home" is a
masterpiece ballad of mother, home and love.
It was written by a lyric master. Undoubtedly
the wealth of heart interest and sentiment ex-
pressed in the song is the result of being able
to look back upon a life of successful song writ-
ing. Thus he was able to give to this mother
song only the best experience and knowledge.
There are also the added indefinable expressions
of a poet who knows that sentiments of mother
home and love are nearest the hearts of popu-
lar music purchasers.
New Compositions Found
in Oliver Ditson Lists
Some Interesting New Selections of Novel
Order Are Offered—Several Folios of Piano
Compositions Included
Among the new issues appearing in the Oliver
Ditson Co. catalog is a piano composition en-
titled "Dancing and Singing" by Theodora Dut-
ton. This is one of a series of five "early pro-
gram pieces" by the same composer, the others
being "A Rainy Day in the Garret," "A Rock-
ing-Chair Story," "In the Poppy Field" and
"The Old Castle."
Carl Wilhelm Kern has contributed the fol-
lowing piano solos: "Friendship Gavotte," "A
Night on the River," "Silver Flash" and "The
Tale of the Forest Brook."
To the piano compositions by Constantin
Sternberg has been added "En Carrousel" (on
the merry-go-round).
There has also been added to Ditson "six
hand piano music" two numbers by Mathilde
Bilbro called "Antoinette Waltz" and "Let Us
Go,", these numbers are particularly adapted
for grades one, two and three. Also for young
students Paul Zilcher has contributed a folio of
twelve easy piano pieces, titles of which are
particularly appropriate and the music simple
in character. The titles include "Morning
Song," "In Flowery Meadows," "Little Waltz,"
"March," "Gavotte," "Teasing," "Minuet," "At
the Fountain" and "Cheerfulness."
Smith Go. Opens Branch
TAMI-A, FLA., August 16.—The Arthur Smith
Music Co., 1107 Franklin street, this city, has
opened a branch store at 1206 Tampa street
The new store will handle the same lines of in-
struments as the main store, featuring the Bald-
win pianos and the Brunswick Panatropc.
LET the END of
EWORLD COME
TO-MORROW
AS LONG AS YOU LOVE
ME TO-DAY
Let the Rest of the World Go By"
b& the Same Writer
ERNEST R . BALL
Lyric by PAUL CUNNINGHAM
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Maggie," "Believe Me If All Those Endearing
Young Charms," "Sweet Genevieve," "Holy
City" and "I Hear You Calling Me."
Requests for the songs popular during the
Allen McQuhae, Atwater Kent Artist, Gathers late war are not numerous and as yet only one
Some Interesting Facts Regarding Sort of man has asked Mr. McQuhae to sing "The Star
Spangled Banner."
Music That is Preferred
Mr. McQuhae's census is expected to be an
A national census of songs that live is being excellent guide for ambitious song writers as to
made by Allen McQuhae, Irish tenor, who con- theme and character. Sentiment is shown to
ducts the Sunday evening Atwater Kent radio be the prevailing motive in the songs most
concerts this Summer. The songs of the series called for, with the themes of lost sweethearts,
are chosen from requests from radio listeners. mothers who have gone, and inspiring songs of
The census is expected to reveal not the "hits" religious character predominating.
of the day, which, after a wave of popularity,
"Danny Boy" leads in popularity for the con-
die out, but the songs that live through the
cert to be sung by McQuhae in the Atwater
years.
Kent hour, Sunday, August 22. This song was
Mr. McQuhae's list of songs requested al- first presented to the Atwater Kent radio audi-
ready runs far above five hundred. To sing all ence by Madame Schumann-Heink in the Win-
ter concert series. Other songs by McQuhae
of them he estimates it would take him more
on the evening of the twenty-second will be
than six months in half hour weekly concerts.
He selects those, however, for which he re- "Asthore," "The Old Refrain," and a duet with
William Simmons, baritone, who broadcast with
ceives the greatest number of requests each
McQuhae earlier in the Summer, "Watchman,
week and places them on his Sunday evening
What of the Night?"
program.
For example, Mr. McQuhae says no one has
"Even Bravest Hearts," from the opera
yet asked him to sing "Yes We Have No "Faust," features Simmons's repertoire, which
Bananas," while hundreds have requested such
will also include "House of Memories" and
fine old favorites as "Silver Threads Among "Rose of My Heart."
the Gold," "When You and I Were Young,
This program broadcast from Station W E A F
and eight other connected station will begin
at 9:15 p. m., Eastern daylight time.
Making Census of Songs
Favored by Radio Fans
THE LITTLE RED
SCHOOL HOUSE
AND THE
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World-Famous
McKINLEY
•* MUSIC
are staple American institutions. Both
have won and hold the implicit confidence
of the American people through merit
alone.
50 NEW NUMBERS FOR 1927
NOW READY, Piano Solos, Piano Duets and
Violin and Piano
Salable Copyrights! Best Reprints!
New Catalogs Free with Stock Orders
Mr. Dealer: If you do not carry this "BIG
PROFIT" line, write for Samples and Liberal
Sales Plan Today!
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
1501-1515 E. 55th Street, CHICAGO
Off on De Luxe Motor Trip
Roger Wolfe Kahn, the orchestra leader, com-
poser and record artist, and his personal repre-
sentative, George D. Lottman, leave Saturday
on a cross-country motor trip, with Los An-
geles as their destination.
Kahn and Lottman will use as their convey-
ance a specially built and equipped Marmon
closed car, constructed originally for Mrs. A.
H. Woods, wife of the theatrical producer, and
containing practically every necessity for camp-
ing purposes, from a shower-bath attachment
to an electric refrigerator and a complete
kitchen. They will be gone for about six
weeks, returning shortly before the opening of
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
Publishers
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Music
Dealers
LePerroquet de Paris, the West Fifty-seventh
street night club which Kahn acquired recently
in conjunction with Rene Racover.
Singers Dispute Rights
to Sing Berlin Song
Joyce Barbour and Nora Bayes Each Claim
Exclusive Right to Sing "Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes"
The importance of present-day songs from
the pen of Irving Berlin has been again demon-
strated through the dispute of an American
and English singing artist over the privilege of
exclusively singing Berlin's newest song,
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
According to reports from London, Joyce
Barbour and Nora Bayes announce that they
will sing the song in rival productions soon to
be produced there. Miss Barbour's manager
declares Berlin presented the English rights to
her as a birthday present. On the other hand
Miss Bayes is understood to have acquired the
rights from Berlin's publishers. Exclusive
rights to the song are also claimed by a London
producer who intends to include it in one of his
coming revues.
Carl Fischer Adds to
"Playhouse Music Series"
Six New Volumes Appear in Well-known Edi-
tion for Use in Moving Picture Theatres
Carl Fischer, Inc., has added six new volumes
to its "Playhouse Music Series." These are
especially selected compilations approved by
important musicians in the motion picture field.
Special stress has been laid on simplicity so
that the average pianist can play these selec-
tions without difficulty. The volumes include
the types of music that have been found ap-
propriate for the photoplay pianists and while
all of them are original and modern in char-
acter, they thoroughly cover all general needs.
A large proportion of this series is of copy-
righted music which certainly should add to its
value.
Ed. Christy, manager of the mechanical re-
production division of Irving Berlin, Inc., will
shortly return to New York following a vaca-
tion spent in Maine. Mr. Christy spent most
of his time fishing and promises to bring back
some irrefutable evidence of his luck and tech-
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