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IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Berlin Corp. to Issue
Second Saxophone Folio
Standard Division to Issue Folio in September
—Other Features of the Berlin Standard
Music Catalog
The standard department of Irving Berlin,
Inc., New York, under the name of the Irving-
Berlin Standard Music Corp., has begun to
make an excellent sales showing, in spite of the
limited time that has elapsed since its organ-
ization about four months ago. At present this
department has a catalog of motion picture
music of over 100 numbers, and a collection of
novelty solos for piano, violin, saxophone,
banjo and various other items.
Among the outstanding items in the stand-
ard department is "Fiddlin' The Fiddle,"
a novelty violin solo by Dave Rubinoff, that has
struck a popular appeal. The firm is now at
work on a series of twelve novelty violin and
piano solos of a similar nature. The first saxo-
phone folio that was issued recently has en-
joyed an unusually large sale and a second
saxophone folio is now in work for release early
in September.
taken over about six months ago by the firm,
paying a heavy advance, and for a considerable
period the results were very limited. Early
in the Summer "C'Est Vous" began showing
up and is now one of the best sellers on the
market. The firm is planning an extensive
campaign on this song and looks forward to
putting it over as one of the big ballad hits
of the year. It is the type of song that has
staple qualities. Many acts are being rehearsed
on "C'Est Vous."
Triangle Music Go. Is
Reissuing Two Numbers
Feist Number Makes Hit
With Prince of Wales
I'm Coining Virginia
Smile
Clorinda
From Texas Guinan's "Padlocks of 1927"
Say It With a Red Red Rose
Released on All Records and Rolls
ALSO PUBLISHED FOR ORCHESTRA
ROBBINS Music CORPORATION
799 Seventh Avenue .New York
Dealers say—
It's the easiest thing
in the world to sell.
WORLD-FAMOUS
McKINLEY
MUSIC
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Well-known Recording and Radio Pianist to
Write Series for That Publishing Firm
The announcement of the signing of Lee
Sims to write a series of piano novelties for
Robbins Music Corp., New York, is bound to
be of interest to all those in the music field.
Lee Sims has created a style all his own
in his piano renditions of popular numbers and
his recordings of them for Ampico rolls and
"I Ain't Got Nobody and Nobody Cares for
Me" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" Are
Both Widely Recorded
Joe Davis, head of the Triangle Music Pub-
lishing Co., New York, is reissuing two strong
numbers, "I Ain't Got Nobody and Nobody
Cares for Me" and "A Good Man Is Hard to
Find," which will constitute the firm's plug
songs during the coming season. The latter
number has been taken from Handy Bros.,
Music Co., its original publisher. Mr. Davis is
confident that the numbers will be the biggest
blues hits he has ever published.
"C'Est Vous".Takes Hold
New releases on "I Ain't Got Nobody" are
as
follows: Victor, by Coon-Sanders Orchestra;
A dark horse has turned up in the catalog
Okeh,
a vocal record by Sophie Tucker, and an
of Irving Berlin, Inc., New York, being a song
entitled "C'Est Vous." This number was instrumental record by Boyd Senter; Jay C.
Flippen recorded it for Pathe and Perfect; the
"Golden Gate Orchestra recorded it for Banner,
Regal, Dominoe and Oriole; Peggy Britton for
Cameo; Bog Fuller and His Clarinet recorded
it for Vocalion, and Ted Lewis is now making
Production Successes
a record of it with his band on Columbia.
From the Sensational Broadway
Colored Musical Show "Africana"
Robbins Corp. Publishing
Sims Piano Novelties
Walter Donaldson's rhythmic and haunting
number, "At Sundown," published by Leo Feist,
Inc., New York, won new laurels for itself in
Ottawa, Canada, recently, when it was sung be-
fore the Prince of Wales and Prince George at
the big state dinner and dance. Al and Bob
Harvey sang the number which was applauded
enthusiastically by both of their royal high-
nesses, and the song was repeated many times.
A few days later, when the Prince of Wales was
in Toronto, he requested "At Sundown" for his
Charleston dance. His liking for the number
was commented on extensively by the Toronto
Daily Star and other Canadian papers.
With the Wonderful Catalog,
Fine Cabinet, Graded
Counter Portfolios,
Display Signs,
etc.,
IT SELLS
ITSELF!
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Lee Sims
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Brunswick records have met with great favor.
Mr. Sims injects novel effects into these re-
cordings, yet he never destroys the flavor of
the original composition.
Heretofore he has devoted his attention to
current popular music, and the announcement
that the compositions to be published by Rob-
bins Music Corp. are to be from his own pen
must necessarily be of paramount interest to
piano players everywhere.
In these compositions Mr. Sims will utilize
all those effects which have made his record-
ings so popular and they will be written in
such a manner that the average pianist will find
them of not too great difficulty.
Besides achieving fame as a recording artist,
I.ee Sims is also a great radio favorite and
he is at the head of his own piano school in
Chicago. Robbins Music Corp. will issue the
! .ee Sims piano novelties at an early date.
$19,000 Said to Be
Offered for Song
A report from London that Florenz Zieg-
fcld had cabled C B. Cochran offering $19,000
for one song was confirmed on this side re-
cently. The song is the principal number in
Cochran's current revue, "One Dam' Thing
After Another," and has been, as a matter of
fact, one of the most conspicuous hits of many
seasons in London.
It is called "My Heart Stood Still," and was
written by Richard Rodger^.and I.orenz Hart,
who, with Herbert Fields, are at present rep-
resented by "Peggy-Ann" as their current suc-
cess on Broadway. This was the piece that
was sung one night at the Plymouth by the
Prince of Wales in a heroic effort to enable
rhe dance orchestra to pick up its strains—
an episode which was loudly heralded in the
London press next day.