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December 18, 1920.
SOME SHEET MUSIC ITEMS
McKINLEY SONG NUMBERS WiN
Meritorious Publications of Chicago House Ranked
as Favorites and Good Sellers.
Among so many favorites issued by the McKinley
Music Co., Chicago and New York, it is difficult to
tell which is the greatest hit. The place of "Sweet
Hawaiian Moonlight" in the public interest is high
and a matter widely known. But the company
has other publications which may be listed as high
favorites and big sellers.
"Sleepy Hollow" is a song waltz success which
has made a marked impression on the world of song
lovers since the day it was issued. A clever lyric by
Harold G. Frost is admirably coupled with a music
setting by F. Henri Klickmann. Another warm
favorite is a waltz lullaby, "Pickaninny Blues." It is
used in acts and heard in orchestras everywhere.
"Play Me a Dixie Melody" is an alluring fox trot
melody which has been cleverly featured by A. Ber-
nard and Ernest Hare. This is a winner on sheet
music counters. Other fox trot ballads have won a
prominent place in the regard of the song lovers.
LOUISVILLE WANTS ITS JAZZ
But Kentucky City Is Discriminative and Likes Its
Jazz Free from Riotous Racket.
"Jazz is rising to the peak instead of heading for
the discard among 1 Louisville music lovers," dealers
in phonograph records and player rolls told a re-
porter for the Louisville, Ky., Courier, last week.
Christmas shopping is making the demand more
marked than in years, it was said.
"Jazz is a loose term. They do not want the
smashing and the banging and the general racket
United States District Court. The bill of complaint
gave the company's assets as upward of $1,200,000
and its liabilities as approximately $1,000,000, of
which $800,000 is unsecured.
A new Victor dealers' association has been pro-
posed for Chicago. L. C. Wiswell, manager of the
Victrola department of Lyon & Healy, is active in
promoting the new association.
JOINT ADS. IN BUFFALO
Talking Machine Dealers Co-operate to Stimulate
the Buying Desires of the Public.
The December meeting of the Talking Machine
Dealers' Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., was held last
week at the Ellicott Club. Following a dinner at
6:30 several addresses were made and the points
touched upon discussed.
The value of co-operative, advertising is being
tested in Buffalo, where a newspaper campaign to
interest the public in talking machines and records
is being carried on. About fifty dealers have sub-
scribed to the $5,000 fund to use newspaper spreads
for stimulating the talking machine business during
the weeks preceding Christmas. The direction of
the fund was placed with V. W. Moody, manager of
the Buffalo Talking Machine Co., whose valuable
experience in such matters was depended upon by
his associates. The names and locations of the con-
tributing dealers were printed with each advertising
plea.
AMPLIPHONES WIDELY SOLD.
President F. H. Knight, of the Ampliphone Com-
pany, 610 Consumers' Company Building, Chicago.
is down at the factory, Brazil, Ind., these days, busy
as a beaver. His machines have been shipped re-
cently in orders to Massachusetts, and other New
England states, to California, to Honolulu, all over
the Central West, and to several foreign lands as
well. It is wonderful to note the breadth of intro-
ductions that has come to this phonograph. It is
practically known in every good talking- machine
state and territory where white men or the more
intelligent darker races of men dwell.
of what was first called jazz; they simply want
lively, syncopated music, music with a swing. They
want saxophones and trombones and a touch of the
blues," the newspaper explains. Quoting a dealer
described as an accomplished musician, the Courier
prints:
"I am not at all alarmed about the morals of
American people because they like jazz music," a
record merchant, likewise an accomplished musician,
said. "The kind of jazz we have now, not the wild,
nerve-racking sort that came as a reaction of war-
tired nerves, is the nearest approach to American
music we have ever had. At least jazz keeps more
people happy and out of the dumps than anything
else I know."
PLAZA MUSIC CO. BANKRUPT
Unfortunate Backing of Publishing Houses and Not
Poor Music Selling Given as Cause.
The liabilities of the bankrupt Plaza Music Co.,
New York, a petition against which was filed last
week, is stated to be about $150,000 and the assets
about $75,000. The company was considered one
of the largest music jobbing nouses in the country.
It handled a great amount of popular music. Ac-
cording to the receiver's statement, the failure is
due to an unfortunate backing of music publishing
concerns and other ventures, rather than poor busi-
ness in selling sheet music.
Judge Mayer appointed Francis Gilbert and Ed-
ward M. Morgan receivers. The following creditors
were petitioners: Herman Germain, $20,000; David
B. Jacobs, $337, and Gertrude Cheadle, $100. Music
publishers said to be backed by the Plaza Music Co.
within the past few years were: The Gilbert &
Friedland Co., Al. Piantadosi & Co., and the Douglas
& Newman Co.
ROAT MUSIC COMPANY HITS.
An American music publishing house which has
expanded considerably in the past years is the Chas.
E. Roat Music Co., Battle Creek, Mich. The ex-
pectations of the company for the coming year are
very cheerful. Its latest hit is "Gypsiana," a fox trot
song which is a combination of merit in melody and
lyric. The number is one of the good sellers on
sheet music counters. The company will soon
launch a lively campaign for "Bye-Bye Land," a
waltz lullaby of considerable merit. "Gloaming,"
published by the Chas. E. Roat Music Co., has now
passed the quarter million mark.
A National Song Hit
That finds its way into the Hearts of the
People is
'AMERICA!, FIRST and FOREVER"
"Our Greatest Song of Praise"
Song Leaders and Supervisors of Music Laud
Its Power to Strengthen Americanism.
It is full of pep. 18 cents. Order Now.
Corinthian Music Co.
Hadley, Illinois
Copies may be secured thro' Lyon & Healy, Ch'cago, and
Plaza Music Co., New York.
News Concerning the Publishers and Publications
Gathered Here and There Are Briefly Related.
For alleged violation of song 1 copyrights, Jerome
H. Remick & Co., New York, has sued the Liberty
Theater Amusement Company, Spokane, Wash. It
is claimed the defendant played the copyright song,
"Your Eyes Have Told Me So," in its theater. The
damage sought is $250.
"Whispering," the song published by Sherman,
Clay & Co., San Francisco, is now to be had in
player rolls and talking machine records.
The Sieberling-Lucas Music Co., Portland, Ore.,
recently featured "Coral Sea," published by Sher-
man, Clay & Co., San Francisco, and "Sicily," pub-
lished by Daniels & Wilson of the same city. The
sales resulting were very satisfactory.
John Bjorklund has purchased an interest in the
music publishing house of Scholz, Erickson & Co.,
Inc., which has moved to 521 Howard street, San
Francisco, Cal.
Herbert Marple, of Sherman, Clay & Co., San
Francisco, has concluded a trip through the East
introducing "Whispering," published by the firm.
Mr. Marple is back in San Francisco after an ab-
sence of four months.
The president of the new publishing house, Win-
kler, Inc., New York, Max Winkler, is also president
of Belwiu, Inc., which has published a large number
of popular songs this year.
A "statement of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes-
tic Commerce reports a considerable decrease in the
importation of sheet music and music books.
REORGANIZES IN MIAMI.
The Miami Music Co., Miami, Fla., has been reor-
ganized and will continue to carry a complete line
of sheet music, string and brass instruments and
musical accessories. The old quarters in the Rhodes
building will be retained. The reorganizers are L. A.
Munier, W. H. Cooper, and A. B. Wilson, all active
performers in local orchestras. A repair department
will be a feature of the reorganized company. In
addition to conducting a school of music the Miami
Music Co. will supply orchestra music for all
occasions.
If you are not handling the
McKINLEY EDITION OF
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Comprising Standard,
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Dealers Realize
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teachers in the country—-Students, Accom-
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Public in general.
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