Music Trade Review

Issue: 1927 Vol. 85 N. 17

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OCTOBER 22, 1927
The Music Trade Review
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An Effective Century Edition Window
Display by the Jahn's Music House
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BABY YOUR
A N attractive and highly effective show win-
dow, devoted exclusively to the Century
Certified Edition of sheet music, was used not
long ago by Jahn's Music House, 3720 Mont-
rose avenue, Chicago. The designer of the dis-
play used considerable ingenuity in grouping
the music, stacking some of it on wire rack*
and making cornucopias of other copies in such
a way as to make a clever pattern in the whole
display.
DOLLY
MORSE
ANDREW
- OON NELLY
. BURKE
Mystery of "Cot-Cot-Cotton"
Song Is Brought to End
"Blind" Campaign on Song by Broadway Music
Corp. Brings Unusually Satisfactory Re-
sults
Now that the series of mysterious advertise-
ments pertaining to the new fox-trot ballad.
"Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton
Grows," has been concluded and the secret has
been revealed that Will Von Tilzer, president
of the Broadway Music Corp., New York, is
backing the number as publisher, some inter-
esting facts concerning the whole episode have
come out. Quite a number of the boys in the
songwriting business tried to figure out who
wrote the number, but none of them guessed
correctly.
The stunt of using "blind" advertisements in
the trade papers to introduce the number was
characteristic of Will Von Tilzer and brings to
mind some of his doings in the exploitation field
in the past. He was the first music publisher to
use a reversed plate for advertising songs to
the trade and professional public, and it took
him two years to induce the manager of the old
Clipper to accept his "copy." Mr. Von Tilzer
was also the first publisher to buy an entire
page for songs and use not more than an inch
of it in the center, leaving the rest white.
As a result of his recent novel advertising of
"Cot-Cot-Cotton," the professional folk have
been talking and guessing and Mr. Von Tilzer
has tried to get dealers in various parts of the
country to solve the musical problem. The num-
ber is now getting away to a better start than
any number he has handled in recent years.
One prominent orchestra leader stated that if
the number does not click with a big bang, he,
the leader, will eat all the orchestrations the
firm happens to have left over.
Night Club "John" Pays
Heavily for "Dawning"
her escort to secure a copy of it for her. Find-
ing that the orchestra leader had no extra copy
of the number available, the escort offered him
ten dollars for his and refused to take "no" for
an answer.
Revised Edition of Most
Popular Music Books
Seven Volumes in Attractive New Cover De-
sign Are Offered by Hinds, Hayden &
Eldredge
The new, revised edition of the Most Popular
Music Books, published by Hinds, Hayden &
Eldredge, Inc., New York, is already off the
press in seven volumes and is at present be-
ing bound with an attractive new cover de-
sign.
Distribution of the revised series will
start shortly, as soon as the full seven books are
completed by the printer. The new Most Popu-
lar series includes: Most Popular Children's
Piano Pieces, Most Popular Selected Piano
Pieces, Most Popular Piano Transcriptions,
Most Popular Operatic Piano Pieces, Most
Popular Piano Recital Pieces, Most Popular
Modern Piano Pieces and Most Popular Con-
cert Piano Pieces.
Donaldson's
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SONG HIT/
&HEBE AIN'T
NO LAND LIKE
DIXIELAND
k FOR ^ ME/"
WALTER,
DONALDSON
Interest in "Harvest Moon"
Song Showing Revival
"When the Harvest Moon Is Shining," a num-
ber written by Harry Von Tilzer about seven
years ago and published by the company bear-
ing his name, has begun to show up again and
demands are coming in for it from several sec-
tions of the South. Mr. Von Tilzer stated that
the experience of having an old song
resurrected through its own merits was not a
new one for him. He recalled that a vaude-
ville act was using "When the Harvest Moon
is Shining" through Texas recently and when
orders started to come in consistently for small
lots of the song he knew that he could trace
the "plug."
An amusing incident, establishing a new high
price for a single copy of "Dawning," a late
The Wilson-Stewart Co., of Indianapolis,
release of Irving Berlin, Inc., New York, was
reported this week as having transpired at the Ind., has purchased the Hobart M. Cable Piano
Co. store on South Main street, Anderson, Ind.
Frivolity Club, after theatre hours. Tom
Timothy and his orchestra had just played
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"Dawning" and a fair guest at one of the tables
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was so captivated with the song that she asked
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The Music Trade Review
OCTOBER 22, 1927
Bunning is widely known in sheet music circles
and it will be good news Mo many when he is
back at his desk.
The Saturday Evening Post
The Fall Catalog of
Al. Fiantadosi Songs
and twenty-six other foremost magazines
are carrying the advertisements of
"My Stormy Weather Pal," New Mother Song,
Heads Numbers and Is Already Going Well
Century Edition
Sheet Music
to over
27 Million Monthly
subscribers, or approximately
60 Million Readers
To get the full benefit
HOOK-UP
Century Music Pub. Go.
235 W. 40th St.
New York
Al. Piantadosi, proprietor of the music pub-
lishing firm bearing his name, at 1576 Broad-
way, New York, has recently written a new
mother song, "My Stormy Weather Pal," which
heads the house's catalog this Fall. Mr.
Piantadosi has scored many successes with
"mother songs" in the past, among them being
"Cross My Heart, Mother, I Love You," "Pal
of My Cradle Days," "Tired Hands" and
others. "Stormy Weather Pal" has already been
recorded on Victor records and other mechani-
cals and gives promise of being one of the big-
gest ballad numbers of the present season.
Other new numbers in the Al. Piantadosi cata-
log are: "When the Sunset Bids the Day Good-
Bye" (a lullaby); "Do You" (novelty fox-trot);
"Dancing Shadows" (a novelette), and "You'll
Be Sorry and So Will I," a ballad number with
plenty of sentiment.
Witmark Medley Orchestra
"Among My Souvenirs"
Series Is Going Well
Taken by DeS., B. & H.
AT SUNDOWN
SHE'S GOT "IT"
A SHADY TREE
LAZY WEATHER
JUST THE SAME
HONOLULU MOON
JUST ONCE AGAIN
MY BLUE HEAVEN
I NEVER DREAMED
IF YOU SEE SALLY
KISS AND MAKE UP
CHEERIE-BEERIE-BE
BABY YOUR MOTHER
SING ME A BABY SONG
SOME DAY YOU'LL SAY O.K.
IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN
YOU DON'T LIKE IT—NOT MUCH
ARE YOU THINKING OF ME TO-
NIGHT?
LOVE IS JUST A LITTLE BIT OF
HEAVEN
THERE'S NO END TO MY LOVE FOR
YOU
THERE'S A TRICK IN PICKIN' A
CHICK, CHICK, CHICKEN
Write for Dealers'
Price
LEO
songs and other songs for unison singing edited
by Jane Byrd Radcliffe-Whitehead. A par-
ticularly interesting feature is a musical setting
of the poem of Sam W. Foss, "The House by
Much interest on the part of musical directors
the Side of the Road," arranged by Mrs. W. H.
of* orchestras in motion picture, vaudeville and
American and Canadian rights for the Euro-
legitimate theatres has been shown lately in the pean success, "Among My Souvenirs," have Gulesian. Other selections include "A Sum-
really novel series of medley overtures for or- been secured by De Sylva, Brown & Hender- mer's Night," by Loth; "Morro Rock," . by
ihestra issued in a convenient and attractive son, Inc., New York, which has incorporated Blanche E. Seaver; "If You Pass Through My
form by M. Witmark & Sons, New York. This the song in its current catalog. Orchestrations Garden," by Richard Kountz; "Giye a Man a
particular series fills a definite gap in supply- and song copies of "Among My Souvenirs" are Horse He Can Ride," by J. Lamont Galbraith;
ing a combination of old tunes and new, deftly being printed and the number will be released "My Lady Lo-Fu," by Elinor R. Warren, and
put together in overture form. With the in- shortly in a big way. The song is a ballad fox- "Trees," by Alexander MacFayden. There are
creasing demand of recent months from direc- trot and was originally published in England by also three sacred numbers: "A Ballad of Trees
and the Master," by Philip James; "God's
tors of broadcasting stations, hotels, schools
the Lawrence Wright Music Co. In view of
Gifts," by John H. Brewer, and "Thy Will Be
and similar institutions a new feature has been
the remarkable success obtained with the num- Done," by Blanche E. Seaver.
included for the Witmark overture series in
ber on the other side of the ocean, De Sylva,
providing each arrangement with saxophone
l'rown & Henderson are confident „ of quick
parts.
market for it in various fields.
The present series comprises seven medley
overtures of an extremely diversified nature,
The Yohn Music Store, Dansville, Pa., has
each one of which recalls favorite songs and
suffered a severe fire loss in a recent fire, which
melodies of the past, interspersed with selec-
destroyed five buildings on the main street of
tions of a later day. Two overtures are de-
the town.
voted to Southern ditties: "In the Land of Cot-
Recent publications issued by the Oliver Dit-
ton" and "Old Plantation Days"; two to the son Co. include a mass for mixed voices by
Some of the.
tunes of Erin, "Dear Old Ireland" and "Irish Eduardo Marzo, written in honor of St. Therese
Favorites"; and a fifth adapted to patriotic pur- of Lisieux; chorus parts from the Gilbert and
poses, "The Land of the Free." There are also Sullivan operas: "Pinafore," "Mikado" and
"On the Campus," especially suited for schools "Pirates of Penzance," and a group of folk
and colleges, and "Hits of Other Days," as
lively a potpourri of song successes of an earlier
STtOU)
,
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day as has even been compiled.
In
Seven of These Already Issued, Each Arrange-
ment Being Supplied With Saxophone Parts
De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Acquire Ameri-
can and Canadian Rights of English Ballad-
Fox Trot Success
Suffers Fire Loss
Some New Publications
by Oliver Ditson Go.
BEST
SELLERS
Running Convalescent
CHICAGO, I I I . , October 13.—William Bunning,
for many years manager of the wholesale sheet
music department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
is in the Presbyterian Hospital in that city,
convalescing from a recent operation. Mr.
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GYPSY LOVE SONG
KISS ME AGAIN
MY WILD IRISH ROSE
WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
MY HOUR
WHO KNOWS?
AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE
DEAR HEART, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
JUST AN IVY COVERED SHACK
CAN'T YO' HEAR ME CALLIN', CAROLINE?
MOTHER MACHREE
SMILIN' THROUGH
ASLEEP IN THE DEEP
JUST BEEN WOND'RING, ALL DAY LONG
IN A LITTLE TOWN NEARBY
SUNRISE AND YOU
THE LAMPLIT HOUR
THAT WONDERFUL MOTHER OF MINE
THAT OLD IRISH MOTHER OF MINE
WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY
ACROSS THE RIVER
MAMMY'S LITTLE KINKY HEADED BOY
SACRED
Otf/VV PUBLISHER. OUR REFERENCE
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TEACH ME TO PRAY
I COME TO THEE
THE SILENT VOICE
GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS
A LITTLE WHILE
IT WAS FOR ME
O LORD, REMEMBER ME
GRATEFUL, O LORD, AM I
M. WITMARK & SONS, NEW YORK

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