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The Music Trade Review
DECEMBER 10, 1927
Last Ballad by Ernest
R. Ball in Strong Demand
"Watching the World Go By" Widely Featured
in Vaudeville and Concert Fields—Posthu-
mous Work of Prominent Writer
The death of one of America's best-known
writers of ballads, Ernest R. Ball, was a great
Kiss to all song lovers; but it is the happy
fortune of those who write for the public that
they are never forgotten. Thus, many songs
that Ernest R. Ball wrote continue to be asked
Boy of Mine," "Let the Rest of the World Go
By," "Turn Back the Universe" and "A Little
Bit of Heaven." Since the publication of this
typical Ball ballad it has been sung by many
vaudeville headliners and in every field of mu
sical activity, so that to-day it ranks amon^
the best of the Ball sellers and gains in nm
mentum every month.
Sherman, Clay & Go. Have
Record for Successes
"Doll Dance" and "Charmaine" Among Out-
standing Features of Company's Catalog This
Year—Other Popular Numbers
Bernard Pollack, Eastern manager for the
music publishing division of Sherman, Clay &
Co., San Francisco, Cal., in commenting on the
past year, states that the firm's popular catalog
broke all records in 1927 from the point of
view of sales volume and endurance of hits.
The Eastern offices of the company, established
about two years ago at 745 Seventh avenue,
more than doubled the sales totals of last year
and have extended their influence into a wide
variety of new channels.
Reviewing the success of the individual num-
bers in the present popular catalog of Sherman,
Clay & Co., Mr. Pollack brought out some
interesting facts, which are recounted, in part,
below. "Doll Dance," written by Nacio Herb
P.rown, was originally featured in the Holly
wood Music Box Revue and was taken out
of the show and exploited as a popular number.
This instrumental number enjoyed an extremely
high degree of popularity and was featured in
practically every large motion picture or vaude-
ville theatre in the country. For example, "Doll
Dance" was featured at the Roxy Theatre in
New York for "three weeks, at the Paramount
Ernest R. Ball
Theatre for two weeks, and also at the Oriental
fur over the music counters of America. The Theatre in Chicago by Paul Ash for seven
famous Ball ballads are sung and played, bought weeks. "Charmaine," written by Erno Rapee
and sold throughout the length and breadth of the Roxy Theatre and Lew Pollack, started
of the land.
as the feature song in the photoplay, "What
To them is added the posthumous ballad, Price Glory?" and has become known as. the
"Watching the World Go By," which Mr. Ball song with a million friends.
handed to his long-time publishers, M. Witmark
"Diane," by the same writers as "Charmaine,"
& Sons, just before his sudden death in Cali-
fornia last May. The lyric of this song is by is the theme for "Seventh Heaven" and looks
J. Keirn Brennan, with whom Ball wrote some like even a bigger hit than "Charmaine." "Some-
of his greatest successes, including "Dear Little body Lied About Me" is a number that is show-
ing up very big on the Coast and was written
by Carl and Frank Emler and Gus Kahn. The
number will be published in both fox-trot and
waltz form and the orchestrations will be
ready soon.
In addition, the Sherman, Clay catalog in-
cludes "Dainty Miss," by Bernard Barnes,
THAT HIT THE NARK! which looks like another "Doll Dance." "If I
Should Lose You," by Earl Burnett and Robert
AMONG M\ SOrVKXIRS
Stowell, and "Wide Open Spaces," by Byron
HKRE AM I—BBOKKN HEARTED
Gay, writer of the "Vamp," with Richard Whit-
BABY FEET GO PITTKK, PATTEK
ing and Paul Whiteman, are showing up well.
Donaldson's
High-flying Dixie
SONG HIT/
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FOR ^ ME!"
SONGS
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Arranged for Saxophone
PARADE
SWEETHEART
MEMORIES
I WAS HIKIN' WITH
THERE'S
ONE U T T L E
GIRL
YOU
WHO LOVES
ME
WHO'S THAT KNOCKIN' AT MY DOOR?
MY HA WHAN SONG OF LOVE
MAGNOLIA
SO BLUE
Sonic Hita from the Collegiate Musical
Comedy
•'GOOD
NEWS''
Special arrangements of "Charmaine," "The
Doll Dance" and "Dainty Miss" for saxophone
and also for banjo have been issued by Sher-
man, Clay & Co., San Francisco, Cal., publishers
of these numbers, and are now available. The
saxophone arrangements were made by Frank
Crum and the banjo arrangements were pre-
pared by Ralph Collichio.
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