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"Dancing Shadows" Has
Been Widely Recorded
Novelette in Piantadosi Catalog Now on All
Leading Mechanicals—Other Numbers in
Firm's Catalog
"Dancing Shadows," written by Ernie Gold-
en, the well-known orchestra leader, has started
to show up big in the catalog of Al Fiantadosi,
music publisher, New York, and has already
been recorded by many of the leading mechani-
cal companies. The number is a novelette and
is being used by numerous dance orchestras
and musical acts. Keeping pace with the suc-
cess of "Dancing Shadows" is Al 1'iantadosi's
own composition, "My Stormy Weather Pal."
This is a mother ballad, written on Mr. Pian
tadosi's favorite theme, similar in mood to his
own "Pal of My Cradle Days" of a few sea-
sons ago.
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The firm has just published another senti-
mental ballad, called "I'm Tired of Making Be-
lieve." This is another of Mr. Piantadosi's own
writings, which is taking on well. The mother
ballad, "Tired Hands," which was written last
season and is still a strong seller in the Pian-
tadosi catalog, was given a particularly strong
"plug" a short time ago when Major Edward
Bowes of the Capitol Theatre in New York
featured it with the Capitol orchestra on a Sun-
day night program broadcast over a national
hook-up of stations.
The balance of the Al Piantadosi catalog
includes a variety of popular numbers, among
them a lullaby, "When Sunset Bids the Day
Good-Bye," a waltz ballad, "You'll Be Sorry
and So Will I," a novelty hot fox-trot, "Do
You?" and two fine numbers of appealing senti-
ment, "Loved One" and "I May Learn to For-
get."
Oliver Ditson Co., and it holds several similar
functions during the year. A sumptuous dinner
will be served and music for dancing will be
supplied by an outside orchestra. In addition,
a number of surprises have been planned by
the committee, composed as follows: President,
John Martin; vice-president, Fred Schmidt;
treasurer, Walter Blaser, and secretary, Harry
Holden.
December List Includes Piano Teaching Pieces
by Dice and Number by Daniel Gregory
Mason
Many interesting features are contained in
the new issues and announcements of Carl
Fischer, Inc., New York, for December. The
new piano music includes a group of second
L;rade teaching pieces by Marjorie Dice, entitled
collectively, "Bits of Fantasy," comprising five
separate pieces. Four tone pictures of mod-
crate difficulty are contributed by Grace Helen
Nash, "In a Moonlit Garden," by Leo Oehmler,
and a new technical work on "Ear Training for
the Piano," by Ida Elkan Katz.
A march and fugue by Daniel Gregory Mason
is: one of the more important new releases and
is scored for two pianos. The orchestral music
includes "Jungle Dance" by Erno Rapee,
"Yearning" by Bainbridge Crist, "The Caval-
cade" (marche d'esprit) by Harold Sanford, and
the balance of the new publications consist of
secular songs, octavo choruses and special num-
bers for wind instruments.
Paul Ash Welcome
Planned in Chicago
Local Publishers and Publishers' Representa-
tives Outline Elaborate Preparations for
December 23
"Mamma's Little Baby" and "There's Always a
Way to Remember" Both Bid Fair to Be
Popular
CHICAGO, III., December 12.—An informal meet-
ing of the local publishers and publishers' repre-
sentatives will be held here this week to dis-
cuss plans for a demonstration to Paul Ash,
well-known orchestra leader, who is to put
on a great midnight show at the Oriental
Theatre on December 23. The affair is ar-
ranged as a homecoming demonstration to the
popular leader, who has been playing an ex-
tensive vaudeville tour and will constitute his
third annual benefit, the proceeds of which go
to the basket fund of the Herald and Examiner.
Kocco Vocco, Middle West representative of
Leo Feist, Inc., has requisitioned the entire
mezzanine floor with a seating capacity of 350
at $5 a seat for the publishers.
Among the really attractive numbers released
recently by M. Witmark & Sons, New York, in
their popular catalog are two songs which have
already proven substantially popular both with
performers and the general public. The num-
bers are "Mamma's Little Baby" and "There's
Always a Way to Remember." The first of these
fox-trots was written by the writers of "Two
Little Pretty Birds," and possesses the same
delightful and unexpected twists that made its
predecessor so great a favorite with the danc-
ing world. The dance arrangement of "Mam-
ma's Little Baby" is by Joseph Nusbaum.
In "There's Always a Way to Remember,"
Lew Pollack, writer of "Charmaine," "Diane"
and "Miss Annabelle Lee," has handed the
Witmark firm a real fox-trot sizzler. The pub-
lishers believe that it will enjoy the same pro-
longed popularity enjoyed by all of Mr. Pol-
lack's writings and are going to work hard on
the number. The dance orchestration is by
Frank Skinner.
Ditson Christmas Party
BOSTON, MASS., December 12.—The "Get-To-
gether Club" of the Oliver Ditson Co. will
hold its annual Christmas party in the Twen-
tieth Century Club, on Thursday, December 22.
This group is made up exclusively of members
of the executive staff and employes of the
Wright Co. Handling
Steele Catalog in England
An arrangement has just been completed be-
tween Fred K. Steele, Inc., New York, and the
Lawrence Wright Music Co., London, through
which the latter company will handle the ex-
ploitation of the Steele catalog in England. Re-
ports from London this week indicate that
"Every Little While" is registering very bip
and Mr. Wright predicts that it will be one
of the outstanding hits of the season over there.
"Bells of Hawaii," "Yep! 'Long About June,"
"Will You Think of Me?" "Close to Your
Heart," are among the Fred K. Steele songs
that will also be exploited by the Lawrence
Wright Music Co.
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The Music Trade Review
DECEMBER 17, 1927
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