Presto

25
PRESTO
October 20, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
concert rooms at races "echoed with his vocal fame."
In Nelson's day the British navy had a hard time
in finding recruits. But Dibdin proved an excellent
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recruiting officer.
It is said that men would go straight away from
THE COMBINED CIRCULATION hearing
"Poor Jack" and "Three Cheers" to enlist
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS- in the king's service.
On the strength of his pension and the copyright
ICAL TIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR
his songs, many of which he had written and com-
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF of
posed in less than an hour, Dibdin retired.
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA-
Hut the (iranville government took away his pen-
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT- sion and Dibdin was compelled to return to profes-
life. But a musical shop in the Strand proved
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS- a sional
failure.
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS
From INK) onward Dibdin lived in a house in
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB- Arlington road, Camden Town, and wrote his last
dramatic piece, "The Round Robin," which had a
LISHERS.
run of two nights only. Here, too, he was stricken
with paralysis and his turbulent life closed in 1814.
This department is designed to advance the sales
He still had friends, and they laid him in the new
of sheet music, and give any current information in burying ground connected with St. Martin's in the
the Sheet Music Trade.
Fields, situated in Camden street, under a gravestone
This publication believes that Sheet Music will which bore the following inscription:
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays
Sacred to the Memory of
those who merchandise it properly.
CHARLES DIBDIN,
The conductor of this department will review
Celebrated Author and Composer,
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is
Who Departed This Life
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer-
July 25, 1814,
ings, giving particular information of the theme and
Age Sixty-nine.
a description of the musical setting of the number
His form was of the manliest beauty,
discussed.
His heart was kind and soft;
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Faithful below he did his duty,
And now he's gone aloft.
Music Dept, Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
TO PUBLISHERS
COMMEMORATES PERPETUAL HIT
But Memorial to Charles Dibdin in Need of Repairs
According to Appeal of Mayor.
The mayor of St. Pancras, England, has issued an
appeal for funds to repair the memorial there of
Charles Dibdin, author of Tom Bowling, "The Jolly
Young Waterman," and other chanties dear to the
heart of vocalists who love a song with character to
it. His "Tom Bowling" will last as long as the Eng-
lish language; and "The Jolly Young Waterman" will
he heard as long as the Thames flows from the Dots-
wolds to the sea.
It is perhaps in keeping with his strange and
chequered career that Dibdin's torn!) should now be
in need of repair. Dibdin never did anything like
other people, or as other people wished. His father,
a parish clerk at Southampton, intended him for the
church; the son set his heart on music. The organist
of Winchester Cathedral took him in hand and list-
ened with delight to him singing anthems in the
choir; the boy himself was prouder to think that the
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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)
STANDARD NUMBERS FAVORED
Sheet Music Department Manager Sees Gratifying
Stimulation for the Finer Kinds of Music.
"The popular numbers, the song and dance hits,
have continuous hysterical sale, but the business in
standard music goes calmly on, increasing- in volume
as the years go by," said a sheet music department
manager in Chicago this week. "One might think
from the ebullient and sometimes flamboyant nature
of the hit song publicity that the latter had a monop-
oly on the sheet music sales. It is far from the case.
"Of course there are stores where nothing in sheet
music is stocked but the here-today-and-away-tomor-
row populars. You see the piano player pounding
out the latest and the attendants handing out the
music as fast as they can wrap the sheets up and
make change. You shouldn't trust the impression
you get there about American musical taste. Note
the nature of the sheet music requirements at any
music store which carries a big and general line.
"Any sheet music department manager can tell
you that the field of standard music is a busy one
and the meritorious music continues to have a big
call. You can account for it in many ways. Noth-
ing kills the innate refinement in a people for one
thing.
Musical taste is natural to the American
people. But sheet music men will admit that the ad-
mirable propaganda schemes to arouse interest in
the finer kinds of music has helped to stimulate the
sales of standard numbers."
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
Sommer's
Song
Shop is the name of a new sheet
ORIGIN OF "BARBER SHOP CHORD."
music store in Prophctstown, 111. The management
At last the origin of the '"Barber Shop Chord" of guarantees
all the latest song hits in sheet music.
impromptu choral usefulness is discovered. The
A
music
firm in Canada desires the agency for
blame is on some flattering official of the court in the American sheet
music and music publications, accord-
reign of Queen Elizabeth, according to a writer in ing to the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Com-
the "International Studio," who says: "And under merce. The proposition
to buy outright for cash.
Elizabeth virginals, predecessors of the piano, were In addressing bureau use is inquiry
number 7873.
installed in barber shops for the edification of a suf-
Zez Confrey has published a book called "Modern
fering clientele. It seems a gallant legend that it was Course
Piano Playing." The object of
in honor of the Virgin Queen, herself an accom- the book in is Novelty
to
enable
pianists to embellish popular
plished player, this instrument was named."
songs and dances.
"Just a Kiss," a song now popular in the South,
PUBLISHERS PLAN FESTIVAL.
was composed by Julius Wcstermeyer of the Georgia
A banquet, dance, vaudeville features and a Christ- Music Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Lucille Ginzel, Carlyle, 111., has announced
mas tree are included in the plans for the Christmas
Festival to be given by Boston music publishers that she will open a music studio in that city this
under the auspices of the Oliver Ditson Co., which week and teach the Progress Series of Music. This
has already rented the Swiss Room in the Copley
Plaza Hotel for the purpose. The success of the
outing at Thompson's Island this summer suggested
the winter event to the Get-Together Club. C. A.
Woodman, of the Oliver Ditson Co., is prominent
among the organizers.
REMICK SONG HITS
CHARLES E. ROAT'S DISPLAY.
The Charles E. Roat Music Company, Battle
Creek, Mich., had a large exhibit at the Twenty-first
annual convention of the International Lyceum and
Chautauqua association, held in Chicago recently.
Nearly 1,500 delegates attended, musicians, lecturers,
and managers, who provided morning programs, after-
noons and evenings. Forney W. Clement is in charge
of the Roat display of songs and instrument num-
bers.
"WIR HABEN KEINE BANANEN" IN BERLIN.
''Ja, wir haben keine Bananen heute" has arrived
in Berlin. Bananas were very much in demand in
Germany in pre-war days, but the fall of the mark
has made their cost prohibitive. The German news-
papers, commenting on the American song, have
added two words to the title, "oder gestern" (or
yesterday), apparently with much dissatisfaction.
On the occasion of his marriage recently, Harold
W. Robinson, secretary and treasurer of the Boston
Music Publishers' Association, was presented with a
handsome clock by the members. C. A. Woodman of
the Oliver Ditson Co., made the presentation.
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
Louisiana
When Will I Know
Sweet One
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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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