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The Music Trade Review
JANUARY 28, 1928
ticularly gratified in finding that selection sec-
ond on the entire list with a total of 1,792 votes.
This number, which has been an instrumental
and concert favorite for years, has just hit its
Eastern Representative of Sherman, Clay & Co. stride as a popular fox-trot and song. The pub-
Visited Leading Sheet Music Dealers En lishers feel that it is a striking tribute to the
writers of "Down South" that it finished ahead
Route
of various world-renowned compositions writ-
Bernard Pollack, Eastern representative of ten by Beethoven, Tschaikovsky, Johann
the sheet music department of Sherman, Clay Strauss and others. ' The results of this ballot
& Co., San Francisco, returned this week to have strengthened the Marks staff in its deter
his New York offices at 745 Seventh avenue, mination to make "Down South" the legitimate
following a three weeks' trip to the Coast. In successor to "Wooden Soldiers" as the perfect
San Francisco he conferred with Ed. P. Little, standard-popular success.
general manager of the sheet music department
of the company. In addition, Mr. Pollack visited
the company's branches in Los Angeles, Denver,
Chicago and other points, as well as some of
the large sheet music departments in those
cities.
New Collegiate Novelty Number of Austin,
Mr. Pollack stated that the Sherman, Clay
Bloom & Koehler Played Widely in Manu-
catalog looks very strong nationally with "Char-
script Form by Many Orchestras
maine," "Diane" and "Doll Dance" still in the
best-seller class. "Dainty Miss," "If I Should
CHICAGO, 111., January 21.—The collegiate nov-
Love You" and "Somebody Lied About Me" are elty number, "Dolores," which will be published
also showing up fine. Among the newer num- soon by Austin, Bloom & Koehler, 907 Woods
bers is "Unfinished Tune" by Nat Shilkret, Bob Theatre Building, has been given extensive pre-
Bagar and Lew Pollack and a new novelette by release plugs by a number of leading orchestras
Nacio Herb Brown, composer of "Doll Dance." and has become intensely popular with radio
A reissue of "Rose Room" is also being made and dance fans. The number has been played
at present.
from manuscript by such orchestras as Johnny
Kemp's, Coon Sanders and Guy Lombardo's
and all of these agree that it is a "natural" en-
core tune. The publishers are of course highly
elated over the prospects with "Dolores" and
state that the song will be out soon in sheet
Large Number of Entries in Annual Event music and orchestrations. The firm's big plug,
Make Decision Closer Than Ever Before in "The Voice of the Southland (Keeps Callin' Me
Home)," is showing up particularly well in the
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Middle West and on the Pacific Coast.
Judges for the national window display con-
test, conducted annually by the Century Music
Publishing Co., New York, are deliberating this
week in the matter of selecting the winners of
this year's competition. L. G. Battin, general
manager, reports that many interesting displays New York Concern to Publish "When Love
were arranged by Century dealers during the
Comes Stealing" by Erno Rapee and Lew
past year, adding that interest in these displays
Pollack, the Writers of "Charmaine"
is growing annually. The recent issue of "Be-
tween Us," the Century house-organ, which con-
The Robbins Music Corp., New York, has just
tained fifty-one photographs of recent Century acquired the song, "When Love Comes Steal-
window displays, has brought the matter effec- ing," by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack, writers
tively to the attention of the trade and re- of "Charmaine" and "Diane," and the firm is
quests for display material are being received confident that the number is one of the biggest
daily irrespective of the contest.
finds of the season. A campaign, which is being
The winners will be announced within the started to exploit the number on an elaborate
next ten days. The judges of the contest are: scale, was launched recently at the Roxy The-
F. C. Kates, of the Sheet Music News; B. W. atre in New York, when a special setting was
McClelland, of the Music Trades; F. C. Bruns, created to introduce the song. S. L. Rothafel
of the Federated Advertising Agency, and F. B. (Roxy) is said to have surpassed any previous
efforts in putting over a single number. The
Diehl, of The Review.
Robbins Music Corp. is planning to carry on
the campaign nationally within a few weeks and
will spare no effort in working on "When Love
Comes Stealing."
Bernard Pollack Back
for Trip to Coast
"Dolores" Going Well
in Pre-release Playing
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Century Judges Working
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Robbins Music Corp. Gets
New Song by Hit Writers
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"Down South" Second in
Maxwell Repeat Requests
Ed. B. Marks Music Co. Number Receives 1792
Requests From Radio Listeners of the Max-
well Hour
Third "Piano Recreations"
Now Being Issued
A Real , .
Ballad Hit-
A close check on the number of requests for
repeat performances of specific compositions
during 1927 has been kept by the sponsors of
the Maxwell Hour, broadcast weekly over a
national hook-up. The high spots of last year's
program were reviewed recently over the air by
the official announcer for the Maxwell Hour and
the request record was reprinted in a number of
radio columns, among them Stuart Hawkins'
(Pioneer) in the New York Herald Tribune.
The Ed. B. Marks Music Co., New York, pub-
lisher of Myddleton's "Down South," was par-
The first two editions of "Piano Recreations,"
published by the Irving Berlin Standard Music
Corp., New York, have been received enthusi-
astically by the trade, which has necessitated a
third edition to be released shortly. "Piano
Recreations" consist of six compositions in each
bound folio, and each edition contains all classes
of music for motion picture and concert use,
such as galops, one-steps, dramatic and minor
waltzes, tone poems and reveries, intermezzi
and the like. Four new folios of "Piano Recrea-
tions" are now in work, making sixteen in all.
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