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The Music Trade Review
NOVEMBER 19, 1927
ization. Some of these Berlin successes are:
"Dew-Dew-Dewy Day," "Russian Lullaby,"
"C'Est Vous," "Miss Annabelle Lee," "Dawn-
ing," "Together We Two," "There Must Be
Back From Fourteen Weeks on the Road, He Somebody Else," "Mr. Aeroplane Man," "Are
Finds Business Good in All Sections of the You Lonesome To-night," all of which must be
familiar to every radio fan in the country.
Country
Wiemamn Reports Heavy
Demand for Marks Hits
Bill Wiemann, sales manager of the Edward
B. Marks Music Co., New York, returned re-
cently from his first important trip of the new
season. He had left about August 1 and was
gone in all about fourteen weeks, during which
he eclipsed not only his own previous records
for volume and variety of sales, but also those
made by other salesmen of the "House of
Hits." Mr. Wiemann's natural selling person-
ality and the standard of prestige and reliability
of the Marks house contributed strongly to his
success. The concern's present catalog of pop-
ular numbers also figured strongly in making
his trip an eventful one.
Mr. Wiemann found that with the release
of the Gene Goldkctte Victor record of "Slow
River," as well as the two splendid Columbia
recordings of this song by the Singing Sopho-
mores (Revelers) and Gerald Marks' Orchestra,
the sales of this clever drag tune have taken
a jump. At the same time it was noticed that
the waltz from "The Spider" entitled "A Kiss
Before the Dawn" is showing up well and
toward the latter part of his trip he sold thou-
sands of copies of this number. But the sur-
prise of his entire trip was "Down South,"
which has come along rapidly. Mr. Wiemann
found the demand for this song constantly
growing and sold plenty of each of the twenty-
odd arrangements now published of it. The
new fox-trot version, with the orchestration
by W. C. Polla, was, of course, the feature
item.
Haydn Wins Election
on Music Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,, November 12.—In one of
the most bitterly contested municipal elections
that San Francisco has known for years, Super-
visor J. Emmet Haydn, chairman of the
Municipal Auditorium, ran for re-election on
the program of having been the Father of San
Francisco's Municipal Music. The music mer-
chants and others interested in Music Week
and other municipal musical events got behind
Haydn. The election was on Tuesday, Novem-
ber 8, and Haydn was one of the supervisors
elected, while many other would-be supervisors
went down to defeat. Evidently it is a good
slogan for a man in politics to be able to say,
with truth, that he has fostered municipal
music. A lot of other things that had been
fostered by politicians turned and bit them
at the polls last Tuesday.
Broder Finds Business
Good in New Location
SAN FRANCISCO, CAI.., November 10.—John P.
Broder, well-known sheet music dealer, con-
tinues to be pleased with the new downtown
store of the Union Music Co., Mason street, a
few doors from Market. Business is much bet-
ter than in the former location, where Mr.
Broder was also 'with the Union Music Co.
There are several new songs which arc doing
a good deal to help sales. These new favorites
include: "Charmaine," published bv Sherman.
Jack Mills, Inc., New York, has just an- Clay & Co.; "Sailing On," a Villa Moret, Inc.,
nounced a new waltz ballad, "Girl of My publication, and "Blue Heaven," published by
Dreams," by Sunny Clapp, which was intro- Leo Feist. Max Dolin is doing a good deal to
duced by the composer in the South, when popularize "Blue Heaven" by broadcasting it
the number was still in manuscript late in the over National Broadcasting Inc., Western
Summer. The song has attracted wide interest Division.
in the lower Atlantic States, in which it has
been heard, and dealers there are telegraphing
orders for it daily. A Victor recording of
"Girl of My Dreams" has already been made
by Blue Steele and his orchestra, in which
Sunny Clapp is the star trombonist, and other
The Sam Fox Publishing Co., New York and
mechanicals are slated for the near future.
Cleveland, has recently released an orchestral
novelty number called "Babylonian Nights,"
which was imported from Europe following its
immediate success abroad. The number was
Executives of Irving Berlin, Inc., New York, originally published in England a short time
are priding themselves on having at least ten ago by the Sam Fox London Co., and has re-
songs in their present catalog which rank ceived a wide acclaim there as well as on the
among the biggest sellers of the country. A continent in both trade and professional circles.
list of these numbers reads like a plausible half- "Babylonian Nights" has already been recorded
hour's entertainment by a broadcasting organ- on several English makes of records.
New Jack Mills Number
"Babylonian Nights"
Is Issued by Fox
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Fifty Million Radio Listeners
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