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SHEET MUSIC TRADE
PUBLISH YOUR OWN SONGS
Dealer Can Learn How and What It Will Cost, by
Consulting Rayner-Dalheim & Co.
The music dealer does not conduct a general music
store until he includes the ability to publish music.
He may rarely or never publish a piece or a song but
the ability, as well as the willingness, to do so prop-
erly if required, fills out the phases of his store and
gives his business a general character. But although
he may never be prompted to publish his own com-
position he may be called upon for advice and assis-
tance by some musical person in the community.
And by being well informed on the requirements at-
tending the publishing of music and the location of a
reliable music printing house he is enabled to pre-
sent himself as a music publisher.
The first aid to the music dealer in becoming a
music publisher or enabling some customer to get
his composition printed is a dependable music print-
ing house like Rayner.-Dalheim & Co., 20S4-2060 West
Lake street, Chicago. The house is the largest music
printers west of New York and its well-known phrase,
"Any publisher our reference," epitomizes its depend-
ability. The Chicago music printing house gladly fur-
nishes estimates on the printing of anything in the
music line by any process.
RADIO POPULARIZES SONGS
British Stations Pick Up American Music and Broad-
cast It to Other Countries.
High-powered radio stations in the United States
have been heard in Central and South America, Cuba
and the West Indies, and of course, Canada. WCAP,
of Washington, has bad a letter from England re-
porting the reception of its program over there.
The British Broadcasting Company has, on several
occasions, picked up American programs and rebroad-
cast them for the benefit of the British Isles. Euro-
pean fans do not have to rely upon home stations, but
also pick up the broadcast from neighboring countries.
Distances being less between capitals abroad, inter-
national radio broadcasting is common in Europe
today.
In Great Britain, where more American stations are
heard than those of any other foreign country, local
REMICK SONG HITS
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Watchin' the Moonrise
I Wonder Who's Dancing With
You Tonight
If You'll Come Back
So I Took the Fifty Thousand
Dollars
Arizona Stars
Until Tomorrow
Somebody's Wrong
You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me
Twilight Rose
Nearer and Dearer
Land of Broken Dreams
Steppin' Out
You've Simply Got Me Cuckoo
Bring Back the Old Fashioned
Waltz
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
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fans have an advantage over their cousins of this side
of the Atlantic. Radio waves travel far better in the
night than in the daytime, and for this reason we
seldom hear British stations, unless they are trans-
mitted after dark here, or after midnight in England.
The British broadcasts arrive here when we are in
the midst of our evening programs. On the other
hand, when it's 8 p. m. on our Atlantic coast, it is 1
a. m. in London. If English fans can wait until this
hour, when most British stations have signed off, they
have a good chance to hear some of the big American
transmitters.
The fact that they do listen in "over there" is
shown by the rapid spread of the popularity of our
new popular songs and music abroad.
Music, fortunately for international broadcasting,
is written in universal form, and is understood if not
always appreciated, regardless of the native tongue.
MUSIC DEALERS APPROVE BILL.
A bill to enable municipalities to organize bands
with the aid of a tax on property in the city, has been
introduced into the Maryland General Assembly by
Representative Williams. The bill has the same
features of an Iowa state law passed last year. The
Maryland music trade favors the bill, which enables
towns over 15,000 in population to organize a band
on petition of 10 per cent of the voters.
SALES IN CINCINNATI.
Sales of sheet music in Cincinnati show an increas-
ing favor for the standard songs, and classical airs are
taking their share of business. Some dealers say that
the better class music is coming into its own again
and they feel that the sales on the standard songs
will gradually increase from now on and that it is
these songs on which the dealer will make his best
and largest profits.
COMPOSERS' CONTEST CLOSES.
The composers' contest promoted by the board of
managers of the California Federation of Music Clubs
closed last week but the awards will not be declared
until the sixth annual convention to be held in
Berkeley, April 27, 28, 29, 30. The contest was con-
fined to California composers and prizes of $100, $50
and $25 for different themes were offered.
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
The Maryland Society and the Daughters of 1812
and other societies in Baltimore have joined forces
to urge the passage of a measure in Congress which
would make the "Star Spangled Banner" the national
anthem. At a meeting last week the joint societies
voted to attend a hearing of the measure to be given
by the House Judiciary Committee next week.
SHEET MUSIC PRICES.
At a meeting of the Music Publishers' Association
of the United States held last week at the Hotel
Astor, Xew York, the plan was considered to effect
an arrangement with the Federal Trade Commission
whereby sheet music shall be marked with the net
retail price. The plan is expected to become opera-
tive Tune 1.
NEW INDIANAPOLIS STORE.
George F. Stewart, well known in the sheet music
business of Indianapolis, has opened a store at 137
North Illinois street. He calls his store the Lyric
Music Shop and in addition to popular and standard
sheet music will handle record rolls and musical
merchandise.
TO BROADCASTERS OF AMERICA.
Lords of the far-flung prattle line,
Give us one evening free
Of "Meditation from Thais"
And eke "The Rosary."
—Chicago Daily News.
SOME REMICK FAVORITES
Fortunate Circumstances as Well as Sheer Merit
Have Conduced to Their Popularity.
"So I Took the Fifty Thousand Dollars" is a big
seller and its success has been aided by fortunate
circumstances as well as by the pepful character of
the song both in its melody and words. The title of
this winner of the list of Jerome H. Remick & Co.,
has been used in the action of a nationally syndicated
cartoon, newspaper headline writers have applied the
phrase and at least two vaudeville teams are using
the words of the song title in comebacks in their
gags.
The Remick winner, "Bring Back the Old Fash-
ioned Waltz" is one that invites the dancers to sing
while they dance and this quality has augmented the
popularity of a great many song-dances in recent
years. There is something pleasantly significent in
that fact about the Remick song. It is a compliment
spontaneously expressed by the singers. Nothing ad-
vertises a new song so well as having it featured in a
dance hall and in the dancing events in the clubs
and homes. Thousands of buyers of the music of
"Bring Back That Old Fashioned Waltz" were "sold"
when they first heard it and hummed it on the danc-
ing floor.
The favor of "I Wonder Who's Dancing With You
Tonight" continues and the reports of big sales of
the song comes from e^ery state. In the western
section of the country it shares popularity with
"Where the Lazy Daisies Grow," and "Until Tomor-
row." In Mexico, Arizona and Southern California,
the latter hit is the best seller.
IMPARTING DIGNITY TO JAZZ
Music Critics and Orchestra Leaders Praise Paul
Whiteman's Daring in Staging Jazz Recitals.
Music critics conceded the courage and originality
of Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader, in daring to
put on a recital of distinctly American Music in one
of the greatest strongholds of classicism in America—
Aeolian Hall, New York. Never have the ballads of
Broadway and the tintinnabulations of Tin-Pan Alley
been given more dignity, more elegance of orchestra-
tion, more pretensions to finesse in arrangement and
execution than at the recitals of American music
given by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra recently.
The American style of accentuation, of dragging the
best, stringing and inverting the chords, syncopating
the tune, the time and the rhythm—all were worked
out to perfection in the Whiteman recital programs.
- Critics of highest degree, conductors of great sym-
phony orchestras, authorities from school, conserva-
tories and colleges—all agreed that American Music
as Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra present it is a
delectable morsel; that a blues may have as much
musical standing as a lament or a nocturne; a fox-
trot as much charm as a gavotte or a schottische; a
rag as much ravishing pulsation as a czardas; Ameri-
can music as much (if not more) real merit and
charm as any other national music. Buescher Band
instruments and saxophones had a major part sup-
plying all the blazes of tone-color that made both
recitals so note-worthy and tone-worthy.
Paul
Whiteman and His Orchestra use Buescher True-
Tone band instruments and saxophones exclusively.
Miss Afton Pitt is the new manager of the sheet
music department of the Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano
Co., Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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