PRESTO
September 22, 1923
S H E E T MUSIC T R A D E
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.
Home." Moran and Mack are using "She's Got An-
other Daddy." Every indication points to a record-
breaking season for the firm.
CITES REASONS FOR SUCH
NEW REMICK RELEASES
And Ably Outlines Possible Plan for Financing Book
Which He Believes Retail Trade of Country
Requires.
HEARST SONGS ON THE STAGE
Barney Google
Beside a Babbling Brook
My Buddy
Carolina in the Morning
Dream Melody
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me
Big Blond Mamma
First, Last and Always
Somebody's Wrong
Do You, Don't You, Will You,
Won't You?
Tweet, Tweet
Lou'siana
When Will I Know
Sweet One
J. H. REMICK & CO.
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Chicago
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A GENERAL CATALOG
S. Ernest Philpitt, Florida Music Merchant
and Former President of the Sheet Music
Child" and "Home, My Lovin' Dixie Home" to her
Dealers' National Association Gives
act. Ransome and Healy will use "Always Looking
Views on Its Feasibility.
for a Little Sunshine" and "Home, My Lovin' Dixie
Big Professional Campaign to Feature New Numbers
Planned by New York Music Publishers.
"That Big Blond Mamma of Mine," recently re-
leased by Jerome H. Remick & Co., is by Billy Rose
and Jimmy Moraco. This song is being featured in
a professional campaign. Others from the Remick
catalog to be featured in the same way are: "You
Better Stop Messin' Around," "Somebody's Wrong,"
This department is designed to advance the sales "Tweet, Tweet," a new number by Egbert Van Al-
of sheet music, and give any current information in styne and Haver Gillespie. Others are "First, Last
the Sheet Music Trade.
and Always" and "Do You, Don't You, Will You,
This publication believes that Sheet Music will Won't You."
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays
"Barney Google," a Remick hit, is the strongest
those who merchandise it properly.
The conductor of this department will review selling number in the sheet music department of the
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is McDougall-Conn Music Co., Portland, Ore. "Dreamy
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer- Melody," another Remick song, is also proving a
ings, giving particular information of the theme and big profit maker.
a description of the musical setting of the number
discussed.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Music Dept, Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
Zez Confrey, the composer whose works are
familiar to all buyers of Q R S music rolls has pro-
Leading Orchestras, Too, Specially Feature Several duced a sixty-page book of explanations of the
methods used by the composer in his piano recording.
Numbers from Publisher's List.
A"Dreamy Melody" week will soon be celebrated
The new season is starting with a rush for the by Lee Myers, manager of the Jerome H. Remick
Hearst Music Publishers at 1658 Broadway, scores & Co.'s store on Tremont street, Boston. The spe-
of the leading orchestras in and around New York cial week is a favorite method of Mr. Myer's for fea-
City, making a special feature of "Wonderful Child," turing the Remick hits. He has just completed a
"Beautiful Rose," "Always Looking for a Little Sun- "Barney Google" week.
"The West, the Nest and You" is a new song
shine," "She's Got Another Daddy" and "Home, My
Lovin' Dixie Home," among them being Al. Epstein's written by Larry Yoell and Billy Hill, published by
Orchestra at the Astor Hotel Roof, Bennie Selvin's Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco.
"Gospel hymns set to lively music, a sort of glori-
Orchestra at the Moulin Rouge, and Nathan Franke's
fied ragtime, instead of the traditional tunes in vogue,
Orchestra at the McAlpin Hotel.
Professional singers and acts are taking up many will bring worshipers, new and old, to the churches,"
of the Hearst numbers. Milford and Francis state says the New York American.
No less than five suits between music publishers in
that "Wonderful Child" and "Some Day You'll Cry
Over Somebody Else" went over big at the Gaiety some cases and composers and publishers in others
Theatre in Milwaukee. Jack Reidy, of Reidy and are now in the hands of the courts for adjudication.
Curry, reports that the songs went over in a rousing This is probably the greatest number of such suits
way at the Orpheum Theater in Brooklyn. Hatch & awaiting decision in any one court period.
Paul Specht, who returned recently with his orches-
Farrel, the Van and Schenck of the Golden West,
booked to the coast in Canada and the U. S., playing tra after a tour of England and the continent, recently
in due time at Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Winni- commented ton the growth of the American style of
peg, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Vancouver, jazz in England.
Scott Lawrence, the hymn writer who has more
together with the leading cities from New York to
Los Angeles, will make a special feature of "Some than a hundred hymns to his credit, is also known
as the author of the words of "Carrie" that was once
Day You'll Cry Over Somebody Else."
Nellie Brewster states she will add "Wonderful sung and whistled all over the country. His great-
est pride is in his hymn "He Loves Even Me."
REMICK SONG HITS
25
A SHEET MUSIC HUSTLER.
The sheet music dealers of Portland, Ore., were
glad last week to welcome E. C. Schroeder, who
has many friends in the trade and all give him a glad
hand as he gives them help along merchandising lines
and those who follow his advice profit in an increase
in business. He left Portland with a good stock of
orders, and among the heavy orders were "Valse
Caprice," concert waltz by Njswlands; "Happy
Meadow Lark," and "Romance a la Valse" by Kerns.
Mr. Schroeder specializes in the foreign editions of
Edward MacDowell and also represents Emil Ascher,
Bosworth & Co., the sacred compositions of Waldo
Johnson, and the two Canadian numbers, "Absent
Friends" and "In Woods Enchanted," published by
Whaley-Royce of Toronto, Canada.
In a letter this week S. Ernest Philpitt, head of S.
Ernest Philpitt & Son, Miami, Fla., and former presi-
dent of the National Association of Sheet Music
Dealers, in a lucent manner explains the attitude
of prominent dealers on the question of compiling
and issuing a general sheet music catalog:
Editor Presto: Since there is an outward attitude
of opposition to make it appear that a general cata-
log is impracticable and impossible I think it is well
that the trade should know the expression as voiced
at Chicago at a meeting directly after the close of
the convention of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers. When thirteen prominent representa-
tive dealers were gathered I personally took a can-
vass of the general catalogs to be subscribed to from
those present and the following was the result:
Catalogs subscribed to at $25.00 each—Edward P.
Little, Sherman, Clay & Co., San, Francisco, Cal.,
10; E. Grant Ege, J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Co.,
Kansas City, Mo., 10; T. F. Delaney, Lyon & Healy,
Chicago, 111, 10; Wm. H. Levis, Levis Music Store,
Rochester, N. Y., 2; Leslie E. Miller, Knoxville,
Tenn., 1; S. Ernest Philpitt, Miami, Fla., 8; Joseph
M. Priaulx, Chas. H. Ditson & Co., New York, N. Y.,
10; Laurence Sundquist, W. J. Dyer & Bro., St. Paul,
Minn., 2; W. H. Witt, W. H. Witt Music Co., Pitts-
burgh, Pa., 2; Harvey J. Woods, Woods Music Co.,
Seattle, Wash., 1.
The total of the foregoing is 56.
Denotes Dealers' Favor.
The above would look as if the dealer looked upon
the general catalog with favor, and in the estimation
of the writer, once the publishers will recognize this
sincere appeal from the dealer and put forth an effort
•'Be First With a HEARST"
Songs £& Profits
POPULAR
In the Land of Sweet Sixteen (new)
Some Day You'll Cry Over Some •
body Else (new)
When She Talks About Seeing Father (new)
If I Had You (new)
Many Years (new)
'Ginny (new)
Wonderful Child
She's Got Another Daddy
Always Looking For a Little Sunshine
Home (My Lovin' Dixie Home)
Beautiful Rose
Lonesome Two
Just a Little Gold Watch and Chain
Broken Hearts
Piano Dreams (Instrumental Waltz)
Step (Instrumental One-Step)
Dansopation, Instrumental Fox Trot (new)
STANDARDS
Someone Like You (new)
Sunset, The Hills and You (new)
Mother, My Own (new)
Honey-Brown Eyes (new)
Love is Love For Ever
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