PRESTO
November 25, 1922.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
TO PUBLISHERS
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THE COMBINED CIRCULATION
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS-
ICAL TIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA-
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT-
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS-
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB-
LISHERS.
This department is designed to advance the sales
of sheet music, and give any current information in
the Sheet Music Trade.
This publication believes that Sheet Music will
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays
those who merchandise it properly.
The conductor of this department will review
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer-
ings, giving particular information of the theme and
a description of the musical setting of the number
discussed.
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Music Dept., Presto, 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
TWO NEW SONG "HITS"
Latest Offerings of McKinley Music Co, Have the
Qualities That Win Success.
The McKinley Music Company, Chicago, and New
York, has two good ballads coming out on the Vic-
tor Records December 1st. One of these, "The
Trail to Long Ago," is already selling well and it is
out this month on Okeh, Edison and Pathe records?
and will be out by December 15th on Brunswick.
This is a great boost for a typical "hit," and music
dealers will be wise who get a supply of the song in
time to profit by it.
The other song, "When You Long for a Pal Who
Would Care," is newer and growing daily, and is a
great counter seller. It has Mary Carr's picture on!
title, and is one of the songs that is never heard with-
out catching attention that prompts the buying
impulse.
These are fine songs of the home and mother
variety, and they are destined to have a busy part in
the music counter calls in the near future. The waltz
movement of the last song mentioned is distinctly
"catching." And its piano arrangement is not con-
ventional, offering advantages for expressive playing..
FORE!
MAKE WAY
FOR THE
Four Foremost Sellers
"LOVE OF THE AGES"
S 0 N Q AQ CY FAILS
It is certain that these home songs are needed.
They afford an antidote for the semi-smut stuff that
has been flooding the market. There is also a quar-
tet arrangement, for male or mixed, voices which
will be found effective. The words are by E. C.
Kiethley and the music by Jcannette Duryea. The
chorus runs thus:
When you've wandered from home and you're all
alone,
And you long for a heart fond and true,
When your dreams have all flown, and you'd give
all you own
For a pal who'd believe in you,
There is one you've forgotten, with silvery hair,
Just remember she's still waiting there;
In her heart, pure as gold, you'll find treasures untold
When you long for a pal who would care.
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Come-Along Form Letters Used to Attract
Harmonious Suckers Show the Progressive
Processes of the Swain Promotional
Agency.
The Swain Promotion Agency, 1903 W. North
Ave., Chicago, announces, in a letter over the signa-
ture of its proprietor, W. A. Mink, that it is bank-
rupt and "forced to discontinue business indefinitely,"
according to information received by the Better
Business Bureau of the Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce in its campaign against fake music
publishers and the song swindle.
It is noted that the amateur song-writer who re-
ceived the following letters was recommended by
another "Chicago music concern" as a "high class
song writer," and the Better Business Bureau has
reason to believe that the name will be passed along
to yet another "composer" or "publisher" who will
follow up the victim. He is urged to "publish" the
song himself, with its "beautiful music," which was
Action Started in Brooklyn to Collect $50,000 on composed "free," and the Bureau has no doubt that
"Silver Threads Among the Gold."
a kind-hearted "publisher" will discover his predica-
"Silver Threads Among the Gold," written forty- ment and offer to help him out, for a consideration.
eight years ago by Hart P. Danks, is still piling up Following is the first carbon copy of a form letter,
matched in with the name, and dated August 21,
royalties, according to statements made Tuesday of
this week in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Since 1922:
Recommended as Song-Writer.
it was written it has sold 2,000,000 copies, and between
1915 and 1920 the royalties were $50,000, according to
"Dear Patron: You have been recommended to us
Alfred M. Schaeffer, attorney for Mrs. Harriett R. by a Chicago music concern, as being a high class
Danks, widow of the writer.
song writer, and as we are in the field for good song
Mrs. Danks brought suit before Justice Lewis to poems for the purpose of setting them to suitable
compel Milton A. Gordon, music publisher, to give an
music and publishing them, which we do free of
accounting. She alleged in her complaint that many
charge to the author, we would be glad to have you
years ago a contract was made between her husband submit to us, some of your best compositions for our
and Gordon, by which Danks was to receive a royalty
free examination, and if they come up to our re-
of 3y 2 cents on each copy of the song sold. Danks quirements for a song possibility we will be pleased
died in 1903, and his will provided that the widow to handle them for you and will submit contracts
should have one-third of the royalties and the chil- for you to sign, covering each poem accepted.
dren should have two thirds.
Don't be afraid to send your poems to us, as we
The estate was managed until 1915 by a daughter, will guarantee their safety from being copied or
who was executrix. Since her death her brother has stolen while in our care. The best poems usually
managed the estate. About 1915 Gordon refused to have about eight lines to the verse, and four lines to
make further payments, Dr. Danks said, until the the chorus. Trusting to hear from you by return
question was decided as to whether the widow or the mail, we beg to remain,
children should receive the royalties, or in what
Swain Promotional Agency,
proportion they should be divided among them.
(Signed W. A. MINK, Prop.
In the present suit the widow claims she is entitled
P. S.—We compose music, publish and sell on
to all of the royalties which have accrued since the commission basis."
death of her husband. There are no phonograph
Songs Published Free, But—
royalties.
Mrs. Danks lives at 1920 East Seventh street,
The next form letter had copies of the "contracts"
Brooklyn.
Her husband was for years connected enclosed, and "Dear Patron" was reminded that "by
with the New York sacred song-book publishing the terms of our contract, you will not be required
house of Biglow & Main, which collaborated with the to pay us one penny for composing the music and
late John Church, of Cincinnati, in putting forth the publishing same, but instead you will be paid one-'
famous "Gospel Songs," some of Dank's sacred half of the money we receive for the first advance
songs. Eben E. Rexford, author of the words of
order for 500 copies at 12c per copy and 6c per copy
''Silver Threads Among the Gold," died at his home for each and every copy we are able to sell there-
in Sciocton, Wisconsin, five years ago.
after."
W. A. Mink, Prop., hit the caps quite freely in im-
pressing upon dear patron that: "There are MIL-
LIONS of*DOLLARS being made from the sale of
Oriental Fox-trot Ballad,
popular song H I T S each year, and the AUTHORS
as Catchy as the Flu.
who write those HITS, were beginners like your-
self, but by entering the song writing business with
Send for professional copy:
Orchestration, 25c.
SONG WRITER'S WIDOW [SUES
TANA
Stewart & Aarrestad Pub. Co.
Brinsmade, N. D.
REMICK SONG HITS
Endorsed and Sung by Cyrena Van Gordon
"DREAMING OF LOVE'S OLD DREAM"
JUST OUT!
The Sons You Have Been Waiting For—
"You're the One Little Girl for Me"
A Ballad You Will Never Forget
"When I Dream that Auld Erin is Free"
A Tribute to Ireland's Independence
HERBERT J. GOTT
Successors to
"Mother, Dear, I'm Sad and Lonely/'
A New Waltz Song; add this to your Xmas
list. Composed and published by
MAY BELL ANDREWS
ELDRED
(McKean Co.)
PENNA.
GOTT ®. HENDERSON
166 W. JACKSON BLVD.
CHICAGO
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