23
PRESTO
April .28; 1923
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.
of the professional class. But the number of ama-
teur composers seeking the help of the Chicago house
in publishing their work is evidence of the recognition
of an opportunity.
Rayner, Dalheim & Co. is an opportunity for any-
body with a clever bit of musical composition. I t
is an opportunity known to thousands of music dealers
who pass the information along to the enthusiastic
composers. This firm is the largest of its kind west
of New York and its reference is "any reputable
publisher," Rayner, Dalheim & Co. will gladly fur-
nish estimates on printing music by any process
desired.
NEW PUBLISHING HOUSE.
AN AUTOMATIC WINNER
"Misty Moon," Published by Eliza Doyle Smith,
Chicago, Forges Ahead in Sales.
"Misty Moon," one of the most recent of the "lucky
thirteen" songs of Eliza Doyle Smith, sheet music
publisher of Chicago, is selling fast with almost no
effort to push the sales, according to Mrs. Smith,
who was found this week glowing with the success
of the song.
"Misty Moon" is a song predestined to popularity
because of its melody, its "catchiness" and its timeli-
ness. The song has not yet been strongly advertised,
but it is already well known, and its fame will be
pushed strongly from now on, the publisher said.
The chain stores have taken great quantities of the
copies, and re-orders are making it more and more
difficult for the office to fill the demand. The dealers
are now being appealed to in particular, Mrs. Smith
says.
Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie, after having been
connected with various music publishers for the last
fifteen years, as writers and business associates,
take pleasure in annoUnqng to their friends in the
This department is designed to advance the sales trade and profession, the opening of their own pub- Five Remick Songs With Names Commemorating
of sheet music, and give any current information in lishing house, assisted by a capable staff of experi-
States and Localities Prove Phenomenal
the Sheet Music Trade.
enced music men. Clarke and Leslie have to their
Winners.
This publication believes that Sheet Music will credit many popular song hits, most recent of which
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays are "Gin Gin Ginny Shore," "Oogie Oogie Wa Wa,"
Within
the
last
few
years quite a large number of
those who merchandise it properly.
"Blue" and "Rose of the Rio Grande." The style popular songs with airs suitable for dance purposes
The conductor of this department will review of this new firm is Clarke & Leslie Songs, Inc. The
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is offices are in the Hilton building, 1591-1595 Broad- have appeared with names appealing to local senti-
ment. The composers of many of them followed
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer- way, New York.
successful precedents in writing songs with terri-
ings, giving particular information of the theme and
torial titles; the publishers in a"great many instances
a description of the musical setting of the number
R. E. LAUER IS COMPOSER.
showed wisdom in the production of such songs. The
discussed.
Robert E. Lauer, manager of the piano department house of Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York, was
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
particularly fortunate in launching a succession of
Music Dept., Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111. of the Boston Store, Milwaukee, is a composer of
considerable ability, the title pages of three of whose songs with territorial titles. Or perhaps it were
songs were reproduced in the latest copy of the Gul- better to say the publishing firm named was wise in
bransen Bulletin, published monthly by the Gulbran- choosing the territorial titles and* accompanying
sen-Dickinson Co., Chicago. The three compositions words for melodies with the winning qualities.
of Mr. Lauer available in both sheet music and rolls
Few songs in recent years have reached the favor
Rayner, Dalheim & Co., Music Printers, Provides are: "After You've Said Good-bye," which is having of "Carolina in the Morning." That it is a favorite
a particularly good run in many sections of the in the two Carolinas is certain but this territorial song
Opportunity for Ambitious Ones.
country; "Where the Old Savannah Flows," and his has no territorial limits to its successes. It is a free
In all towns and cities where music is encouraged most recent number, "Love's Golden Shrine."
and continuous seller in all "parts of the country.
the number of good musicians increases with the
Bands, orchestras and radio-sustain its fame, and
HARRY POMAR, COMPOSER.
passing of years. The size of the community is not
prolongs its characteristic as a phenomenal seller at
as important as the degree of the musical spirit that
Harry Pomar, manager of the sheet music depart- sheet music counters.
possesses it. And it is an invariable rule that where- ment of the Cable Piano Co., Atlanta, Ga., is the com-
"California" is"another Remick song hit of the ter-
ever there are good 'musicians there are also indi- poser of "From a Garden," a ballad that is making a ritorial kind that has not been confined in favor to
viduals with the desire to give their musical genius big hit in the Georgia city. Most of the good theater the .state which it helps to make memorable. Apart
self expression by composing.
orchestras have featured Mr. Pomar's song, and the from "Carolina in the Morning" no other song-hit
An estimate of the number of composers scattered
sales are reported big at the sheet music counter of
of recent years has been so favored by the bands
throughout the country might be roughly stated by the Cable Piano Co. It is by no means his first and orchestras. Whether that took place before or
Rayner, Dalheim & Co., music engravers and print- effort. Mr. Pomar has composed a number of cred- after the fact of its sheet music counter success hardly
ers. 2054-2060 N. Lake street, Chicago. From the itable songs, among them "Tonight," "Thoughts of
matters except for sales department analysis pur-
number of music printing jobs received within a given You" and "Your Presence."
poses.
time this company could make an interesting guess
A great many people have bought copies of "Sweet
at the number of aspirants to composing fame in the
STASNY INTERESTS ABROAD.
country. All of the customers of the Chicago music
In addition to his American interests A. J. Stasny,
printers are not amateurs of course. In fact only head of the A. J. Stasny Music Co., New York, had
the least proportion of them can be placed outside a number of retail stores in England, Scotland and
A WHALE OF
A SONG HIT
Ireland as well as business representatives in France,
ONE STEP
so his death from influenza after a short illness re-
FOX TROT
cently was a shock to a great many in the music
trade here and abroad. His first association with the
ELIZA DOYLE SMITH
business was as the composer of "Rose Dreams," a
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song written in Cleveland, O., of which he sold sev-
eral million copies.
VOGUE FOR TERRITORIAL TITLE
INTERESTS AMATEUR COMPOSER
JONAH
7 FOREMOST SELLERS
RUTH
Just Foolin With You
That Wonderful Sweetie of Mine
You're the One Little Girl for Me
Love of the Ages
Dreaming of Love's Old Dream
When I Dream That Auld Erin Is Free
1
HERBERT J. GOTT
Music Publisher
1 7 7 No. State St.
CHICAGO
9est
Music Printers
ANY PUBLISHER
\
OUR REFERENCE ^
RAYNER DAL^jEIM 8 C a
THE JAZZED CLASSICS.
The New York Times believes it is better to have
some of the old classics tortured into a fox-trot than
to have the dancers never hear anything but the
popular song of today and adds that: "To make a
dancer's holiday every -semblance of a tune is now
being turned into jazz. This may torture the ears of
the musical, but undoubtedly carries the first knowl-
edge of great themes from classic operas to the
homes of untaught millions."
A PORTLAND COMPOSER.
Alex. Reilly, who wrote the music for "In Your
Arms," a waltz song just produced, is a salesman in
the piano department of Sherman, Clay & Co., Port-
land, Ore., and has other good songs to his credit.
The words were written by John Dolph.
Estimates
on Anything in Mu
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r WORK DONE B Y
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ALL PROCESSES
:054~2060 W.Lake St, Chicago, III
REMICK SONG HITS
Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
My Buddy
California
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter
Than Today
Carolina in the Morning
Silver Swanee
Childhood Days
When Shall We Meet Again
Lovable Eyes
Out of the Shadows
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
J, H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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