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the new Burns Bros. Hour, and with his own
saxophone quartet in other prominent commer-
cial broadcasting periods. Mr. Johnston has
created the Johnston Super-Series of Saxo-
phone Solos for the Robbins House, the first
issues of which are due off the press shortly.
Although only thirty, the saxophone soloist's
experience has been extensive, ever since re-
ceiving his B. S. degree in electrical engineering
from Clarkston College, Potsdam, N. Y., where
Johnston came to attention in undergraduate
activities with his own orchestra. He now
records with every prominent orchestra in the
country, making discs for Victor, Brunswick,
Columbia, Edison, Okeh and all the others, and
has been under the baton of such leaders as
Frank Black, Isham Jones, Gus Haenschen, Ben
Selvin, Bcnnie Krueger, Sam Lanin, Nathaniel
Shilkret, Ben Bernie, Charles Dornberger and
William F. Wirges.
Song Plugger in Play
Is Hit of the Show
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One of the features of the play, "Excess
Baggage," which has been running for several
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SONGS
THAT HIT THE MARK!
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(That's .lust My Way of) FORGETTING YOU
ANGELA MIA (My Angel)
TOGETHER
AMONG MY SOUVENIRS
WITHOUT YOU SWEETHEART
I.ILA
CHURCH ItEI.LS ARE RINGING FOR MARY
THERE AIN'T NO SWEET MAN
WORTH THE SALT OF MY TEARS
IT WAS THE DAWN OF LOVE
Song; Hits from the Collegiate Musical Comedy
"G O O I>
N E W S"
VARSITY DRAG—GOOD NEWS
LUCKY IN LOVE—JUST IMAGINK
THE NEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FRKK
Song Hits from the new GEORGE
"SCANDALS"
I'M ON THE CREST OF A WAVE
AMERICAN TUNE
PICKIN' COTTON
WHAT D'YA SAY?
ALONE WITH ONLY DREAMS
WHITE
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EACH CONTAINING "AMONG MY
SOUVENIRS"
SUPREME DANCE FOLIO (New)
8AXOPHOLIO (No. 2)
TENOR BANJO FOLIO (3rd Edition)
(Each containing 11 f I ecu great songs)
Merle Johnston Joins
Robbins Corp. Staff
Well-known Saxophone Soloist to Write Ex-
clusively for That Firm During the Next
Two Years
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York, publishers of the number, have learned
that Mr. O'Brien's "bit" with "Together" has
become the hit of the show, which is stopped
by the applause of the audience at every per-
formance.
Merle Johnston, saxophone soloist on many
radio programs and one of the leading per-
formers on this instrument in the country, has
been signed by the Robbins Music Corp., New
York, to compose exclusively for it for a period
J. Tate in New York
J. Tate, representing Allen & Co., Sydney,
Australia, has been spending several weeks in
New York, looking for American songs that will
find favor with his public.
Another BIG One
Donnell O'Brien
months at the Ritz Theatre in New York, is
the singing of the popular balla,d, "Together,"
by the actor impersonating a song-plugger in
the production. Recently, a road company of
"Excess Baggage," was sent to Chicago with
Donnell O'Brien in the role of the song-plugger.
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