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Another member of the Harms staff, who was
playing the accompaniment, promptly intro-
duced Mr. Silver to the young lady who was
the winner of a national beauty contest a year
or two ago. She is Barbara Barondess, of the
production "A Night in Spain," and the meet-
ing so impressed the composer, that he entered
another booth, sat down at the piano and
started to improvise. In five minutes he re-
entered the booth in which Miss Barondess was
rehearsing and asked her what she thought of
his new composition, which he was going to call
"Barbara." Billy Rose chanced upon the scene
about this time and after hearing the song
dashed off the words for the lyric. The rest, as
the saying goes, is history and the number was
accepted by Harms, Inc., for immediate release
and has developed into a best seller instru-
mentally and vocally.
1927 Follies" Scores
Success in New York
Metropolitan Critics Praise Work—Score by
Berlin Meets With Unanimous Praise
AUGUST 27, 1927
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f FEISTY
SUNDAY
THE CAT
8A-LU-TA
COLLETTE
AT SUNDOWN
SHE'S GOT "IT"
LAZY WEATHER
JUST WOND'KING
HONOLULU MOON
THINKING OF YOU
IF YOU SEE SALLY
HE'S THE LAST WOIU)
CHEER1E BEE8IE BKE
THE DIXIE VAttVliO.VD
SING ME A BABY hONG
IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN
I ALWAYS KNEW I'D FIND YOU
SAM, THE OLD ACCORDION MAN
YOU DON'T LIKE IT—NOT MUCH
OH! WHAT A PAL WAS "WHOOZIS"
LOVE IS JUST A LITTLE BIT OF
HEAVEN
THERE'S A TRICK IN PICK1N' A
CHICK-CHICK-CHICKEN TO-DAY
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The new "Ziegfeld Follies" of 1927 opened at
the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, on
235 W. 40th St.
New York
Tuesday evening, August 16, with highly en-
thusiastic reviews from practically all the
metropolitan critics. It was entirely appro-
priate for this "best ever" type of Ziegfeld
show to be supplied with an orchestral score
composed entirely by Irving Berlin, who has
New Number from Harms, Inc., the Result of inscribed his name into Follies history on
numerous other occasions in the capacity of
Inspiration Given by Barbara Barondess
exclusive composer.
Incidents which show that song writing is
There are at least four outstanding hits in
not always a cold-blooded business proposition the show and the publisher,. Irving Berlin, Inc.,
are always interesting and the following episode New York, has decided to release seven num-
concerning the way the song "Barbara," a new bers in all, with the discovery that three
additional songs had hit merit. The outstand-
ing hits are "It All Belongs to Me," "Ooh
Maybe It's You," "Shaking the Blues Away"
and "It's Up to the Band." The firm is plan-
ning to give these numbers a big campaign
and orchestrations have already been dis-
tributed throughout the country. The other
three songs that are already in demand are
"Learn to Sing a Love Song," "Jimmy" and
"Rainbow of Girls."
How "Barbara" Game
to Be Written by Silver
"Yes She Do" Goes Well
"Yes She Do," the composition of Joe Trent
and Peter De Rose, writers of "Muddy Water,"
is rapidly moving to the foreground of the
catalog of the Broadway Music Corp., New
York, and it is considered by the firm that
its popularity will reach a maximum in the
early Autumn. The number has been featured
several times by George Olson and his music
Barbara Barondess
release of Harms, Inc., was composed is highly
entertaining. It seems that one morning not so
long ago, Abner Silver, composer of the Harms
staff, strolled into the office and heard a beauti-
ful soprano voice singing "When Day is Done,"
in one of the professional booths. Not recog-
nizing the voice, Mr. Silver glanced within and
saw the charming lady of the accompanying
photograph.
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from radio listeners in all parts of the country.
"Yes She Do" was also sung recently during
the same feature hour by Fain and Dunn, a
vocal team, who put an original touch to it.
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Sheet Music Publishers' Union for 1926 indi-
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as to costs. Output has been about as high
as in the preceding year. New pieces num-
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serious music. Music in the home used to cause
the greatest demand for sheet music, but this
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