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IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge Issue New
MORE PROFIT Z DEALER
Series of Most Popular Piano Books
OUR NEW RETAIL PRICE OF
Seven Publications in New Series Graded in Type and Difficulty, and Contain Careful
Selection of Best Type of Piano Music
' T ' H E recent announcement by Hinds, Hayden
-•• & Eldredge, Inc., New York, of the new,
revised edition of Most Popular series of piano
books concided in time with the heralding of
the new Ford car, and brought forth a similar
query from the trade, "How can they do it for
the money?" Since publishing the older editions
of the Most Popular series, Hinds, Hayden &
Eldredge have been aware that conditions have
changed in general affairs as well as in the mu-
sical world, and for this reason have decided
to issue a modern, revised edition, containing
a fine collection of piano music by present-day
composers.
The seven books in this revised series are
graded as to the type and difficulty of their con-
tents and are named and numbered as follows:
Children's Piano Pieces, No. 1; Selected Piano
Pieces, No. 2; Transcribed Piano Pieces, No. 3;
Operatic Piano Pieces, No. 4; Recital Piano
Pieces, No. 5; Modern Piano Pieces, No. 6;
Concert Piano Pieces, No. 7.
This new series is very attractive in appear-
ance. Its cover design is unique and in good
taste, utilizing the standard combination of red
and black and retaining only the universally
known title, "The Most Popular," with which
the trade has become so familiar during the life
of the original series. The firm has coined a
slogan to describe the new series—"The Most
Popular Series look well and sound well on
the piano in any home."
Catalog of Sam Fox Go.
Shows Notable Expansion
have been added to the Sam Fox standard cata-
log, including "Waitin' in the Shadows," by
Grant Wellesley; "My Happy Day," by Bey
Neville; "A Pirate Bold," by Emil Fisher; "In
the Heart of the Hills," by Dorothy Lee, and
"Your Love is All," by J. S. Zamecnik.
In the field of instrumental music the Sam
Fox house has kept pace with the trend of the
day, by issuing a book of saxophone solos by
Jascha Gurewich, saxophone virtuoso, and also a
collection of semi-classic and novelty numbers
ior tenor banjo arranged by Walter Kaye
Bauer, banjo soloist. A collection of twenty
piano novelty pieces by popular composers has
enjoyed an unusual vogue during the year.
The number "Polly," by J. S. Zamecnik, has
won its way into two classifications, both as
piano novelty and fox-trot, and has been played
by the leading dance orchestras of the country
as well as being recorded by the principal
mechanical companies. "Wings," the theme
song from the photoplay by the same name, has
also built up a following of orchestra leaders
for fox-trot use, especially with a singing
chorus. The present Sam Fox popular catalog
includes several new numbers, "Chopinata,"
"Humoreskimo," "Fascinating Vamp" and sev-
eral others which are highly distinctive and
hold out great possibilities for the coming
Publication of Musical Score of Photoplay
"Wings" an Accomplishment—Interesting De-
velopments in Instrumental Publications
The catalog of the Sam Fox Publishing Co.,
New York and Cleveland, has gone through-
considerable expansion during 1927 in its vari-
ous departments and many new features will
make the year noteworthy in Sam Fox history.
Nothing stands out more prominently than the
matter of publishing the musical score for the
successful Paramount photoplay "Wings," the
music having been composed by J. S. Zamecnik,
of the Fox professional staff. The addition to
the Fox editorial staff of Dr. Edward Kilenyi
and Albert Sanger for the purpose of produc-
ing additional scores for motion pictures has
been another progressive step.
The firm has prepared during the past year a
Sam Fox Paramount edition for orchestra,
especially adapted for photoplay, theatre, hotel
and concert orchestras, arranged and compiled
by Mr. Zamecnik. The Sam Fox octavo edi-
tions, containing arrangements for men's mixed
and women's voices as well as unison and part
-ongs, have been enlarged greatly during the
year and now include several hundred selec-
tions. Five new songs by different composers
Just Off the Press
Three Shades of Blue
A Suite of Three Musical
Movements for the Piano
By FERDE GROFE
(Arranger of Rhapsody in Blue)
List Price $1.00
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"Cot-Cot-Cotton" Being
Widely Sung and Played
New Will Von Tilzer Fox-trot in Repertories
of Practically All the Leading Dance Orches-
tras
"Cot-Cot-Cotton," the fox-trot song, which
Will Von Tilzer, of the Broadway Music Corp.,
New York, published earlier this Fall, has by
this time "sold" itself into the repertory of
practically every dance organization in the East,
and is being heard nightly over the air from
dozens of different stations. The commercial
success of the song has kept pace with its
professional popularity, and new records in
weekly sales are anticipated now that the
Western trade has commenced to work on the
number.
The trade knows that when Will Von Tilzer
attracts a professional following to one of his
songs he gets 100 per cent support. Here are
some of the staunch admirers of "Cot-Cot-
Cotton," who use it for dance and broadcast
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programs: Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, Freddie
Rich, Frank Farrell, Frank Cornwall, B. A.
Rolfe, Harry Reser, Johnnie Johnson, Jean
Ingram, Fletcher Henderson, Fess Williams,
Julian Webster, Al Friedman, Tim Timothy,
Babe Fuller and their famous orchestras, as
well as twenty or thirty others of equal promi-
nence. Among the radio stars using the num-
ber are Vaughn De Leath, "Uukulele" Eddie
Walters, Jones and Hare, Smith Brothers, Larry
Briers and his Roaring Lions, Wright and
Wrong, the Mediterraneans, Keystone Duo,
Around-the-Piano Hour and dozens of others.
New Feist Dance Folio
for Piano Is Issued
Latest Edition Contains Over a Score of Recent
and Current Hits Especially Arranged for
Piano and Ukulele
A new Feist dance folio for piano, containing
about thirty late hits published by Leo Feist,
Inc., New York, has just been issued by the
house and is ready for distribution. Special
arrangements for ukulele by May Singhi Breen
are included for cacli number. This is the first
piano folio issued by the Feist house in a con-
siderable period and in view of the wide popu-
larity of the songs contained it should sell.
The new folio includes the following num-
bers: "At Sundown," "Honolulu Moon," "Just
Once Again," "Sing Me a Baby Song," "You
Pon't Like It—Not Much," "Just the Same,"
"In a Little Spanish Town" (Fox-trot), "Sam,
the Old Accordion Man," "If You See Sally"
and a score of others.
Alex and Sid Grant have formed a new affilia-
tion with Bibo, Bloeden & Lang, Inc., New
York, the former becoming representative for
the firm in both Detroit and Cleveland and the
latter becoming manager of the Chicago office.