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PRESTO
January 12, 1924.
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.
HEARST MUSIC PUBLISHERS.
What Energy in Producing and Selling Sheet Music
Has Achieved for Young Canadian Company.
The phenomenal rise of the Hearst Music Publish-
ers of Canada, Ltd., from an obscure office in Winni-
peg, Canada, to its present foremost prominent posi-
tion has aroused keen interest in the music publishing
world. For although only in its third year, this vig-
orous organization has developed into a million dollar
corporation with head office in Winnipeg and branch
offices in Chicago, New York and Toronto.
Joe Hearst, the president of the company, has sur-
rounded himself with the very best people obtainable
in their respective lines. Money has been a second-
ary consideration always in securing the right man
for the right job; consequently the gross business
done by this concern is unequalled.
The remarkable results have been built on the
policy of "'the dealer iirst." In every way the dealer
has been protected. Never has the company "loaded
up" a dealer. Every sale has carried a gilt-edged
guarantee, so that "dead-stock" is an unknown ex-
pression as regards Hearst music. The policy has
proved profitable in every way. for not only has it
won innumerable friends, but it has clinched sources
of distribution for their publications.
The European representatives of the Hearst com-
pany are B. Feldman & Co, of London, England,
who publish every song in the Hearst catalog—a
special contract having been written between these
REMICK SONG HITS
Nearer and Dearer
Watchin' the Moon Rise
Until Tomorrow
Nobody Knows but My Pillow
and Me
The Old Folks at Home
Arizona Stars
Barney Google
Beside a Babbling Brook
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
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
two powerful houses. L. F. Collin, Pty., of Mel-
bourne and Sydney, is the Australian representative.
It is a well-known fact that the Hearst Music Pub-
lishers control 49 retail outlets and at this writing
have added 12 more, making an aggregate of 61
sources of disposal. More are to be added during
1924. It is also the intention of the company to estab-
lish a jobbing concern and is willing to negotiate
for any worthwhile standard and reprint catalogs.
Recently sumptuous offices were opened in Chi-
cago. These occupy the entire fourth floor of the
Garrick Building, facing Randolph street, and Thos.
J- Quiglcy, for 12 years identified with M. Wit mark
& Sons, has been appointed general manager for the
I*. S. A. Again in this appointment Joe Hearst has
shown keen foresight, for Mr. Quigley has a won-
derful following among performers and is known
wherever songs are sung. Mr. Quigley, realizing the
tremendous scope possible for the company, has
formed an organization largely of old associates which
is very hard to improve on. Mr. Fred K. Steele is
in charge of the New York office, and the year 1924
finds everybody connected with the Hearst company
set for the biggest drives in professional and trade
circles that the music business has ever known.
Hundreds of acts over every circuit are using
Hearst songs continually. Prominent orchestras and
bands feature them everywhere. In fact, Hearst
music is heard from coast to coast. Among the new
songs and recent releases are "Someday You'll Cry
Over Somebody Else," "If 1 Had You," "In the Land
of Sweet Sixteen," "She's Got Another Daddy,"
"Only a Butterfly," "Lovers Lane Is a Lonesome
Trail," "Forget Me Not," "You Can Take Me Away
from Dixie," which are being broadcasted daily from
the following stations: Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chi-
cago; Drake Hotel, Chicago; Toronto Star, Toronto,
and Manitoba Government, Winnipeg, Man.
HARRIS SONG ACTIVITIES.
Charles K. Harris, author of "After the Ball," once
aspired to write plays. This was learned when "After
the Ball" was being prepared for screening by the
Theater Owners' Distributing Corporation. Since he
wrote his first success, thirty years ago, Mr. Harris
has written some two hundred songs, and in all of
them he has never lost sight of the importance of the
"storv."'
CHANGES HANDS IN JAMESTOWN.
The Song Shop, 8 East Third street, Jamestown,
X. Y., was recently bought by Mrs. Blanche Larson,
owner and leader of a popular dance orchestra. The
name of the concern has been changed to Larson's
Song Shop. It is the purpose of the new owner to
move the business to a store with greater facilities
for a growing business.
ADOPTS ZEZ CONFREY'S COURSE.
The Christensen School of Music which has sixty
branches in various parts of the country, has adopted
"Zez Company's Modern Course in Novelty Piano
Playing" published by Zez Confrey, the composer
of "The Kitten on the Keys." The course will be
used in the Christensen schools in conjunction with
other method?.
BIG MUSIC STOCK.
"The largest general stock under a single roof any-
where! Sheet music comes to us for careful atten-
tion to your wants," was the announcement of Lyon
& Healy, Wabash and Jackson, Chicago, in a display
in the newspapers this week.
CONSOLIDATED ORCHESTRAS.
The Consolidated Orchestras Booking Exchange,
Inc., have just removed to their new quarters at 15^7
1'.roadway, New York. The suite is on the third
floor of the building and is comprised of handsome
offices.
k9est
Historic American Character to Be Presented in New
Light on Anniversary of His Birth.
Interest in the musical side of Benjamin Franklin,
this year resulted in showing the facility of Franklin
as a song-writer. Lyrics written by the great Ameri-
can statesman and philosopher will be set to music
selected by Carl Engcl, chief of the Music Division,
Library of Congress, from old Scotch tunes and
others of which Franklin was particularly fond.
The songs will be sung at Franklin Day programs
celebrating his birthday anniversary on Jan. 17, and
Thrift Week following, notably a banquet at the
Hotel Astor in New York, Jan. 18, under auspices
of the International Benjamin Franklin Society. It
was at the request of this society that C. L. Dennis
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, a
member of the committee on the birthday anniversary
celebration, undertook to provide the songs.
In various ceremonies, Franklin's musical side will
have attention, another being the exercises sponsored
by the Sons of the American Revolution at New York
City Hall, Jan. 17, to which the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce is contributing by request a
memorial.
Popularity came at an early age, for when he was
only fifteen his ballads were sung on the streets of
Boston. Franklin not only composed the doggerel,
but set the type, printed and hawked them through
the streets, just as Oliver Goldsmith did at an early
age. His two most successful ones were "The Light-
house Tragedy," and a sailor's song on the taking of
Tearch, the pirate.
MUSIC IN PORTLAND.
Edward Little, of Sherman. Clay & Co., of San
Francisco, was an important visitor to Portland re-
cently when he expressed himself delighted with the
success of the new sheet music department of the
local store under the management of Wm. Purdy. He
reported the new w?ltz number of Sherman, Clay &
Co., "Sleep," is going big all along the Coast and
gaining in popularity with each day and he predicts
that it will run a close second to "Whispering." Rec-
ord releases by the Victor, Gennett, Columbia and
Vocalion of both "Sleep" and "The West, a Nest and
You" have added stimulus to the
sheet music sales."
"The West, a Nest and You 1 ' havS been the most
popular waltz sung in Portland for several months
and its popularity is showing no signs of abatement.
ADDS TO SALES FORCE.
A. L. Freeze is a new addition to the sales force
in the Portland branch of the Wiley B. Allen Co.
Other accessions to the force are Miss Gertrude Lee
and Miss Kathryn McCarthy, who will assist Miss
Erma Ewart, manager of the record department.
SONGS THAT SELL
"I Ain't No Sheik, Just Sweet Papa,
That's All."
"I've Got a Man of My Own."
"Houston Blues." "The Fives."
"Muscle Shoals Blues." "The Rocks."
"You Have a Home Somewhere."
"Up the Country Blues."
"Shorty George Blues."
"I've Found a Sweetheart."
"Mammy's Little Brown Rose."
and the Sensational Waltz Success
"AT SUNDOWN"
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428 Bcwen Ave.
Chicago, U. S. A.
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