25
PRESTO
April 19, 1924.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
JAZZ PRAISED BY TEACHERS
College Heads and Bandmasters Also Give Their
Opinion at Supervisors' Conference.
Preference for jazz music was voiced before the
Music Supervisors' National Conference in Cincin-
nati last week.
"We can lead the world in sincerity and originality,"
said William John Mall of St. Louis. "We have
shown this originality in what we call 'jazz.'
"It has given the masses strange combinations of
harmonic intervals, with counter melodies, which
never had been used in popular music before and
which have prepared this nation to understand the
more complex harmonies.
"We must realize that much of the popular music
has been adapted from best masterpieces, with
changes to meet the seeming demand for rhythm."
Frederick Neil Innis, famous bandmaster, said.
"Jazz music is by general consent a disease that
will have to be rooted out of the young folks if we
are to return to the safety and sanity of pre-war
years.
"The school band can be largely helpful in this.
With school bands playing music of the better sort, as
they should, America will be the most musical coun-
try in the world in the next ten years."
REMICK SONGS ARE FEATURED
Sales of Popular Numbers Stimulated By Efforts of
Portland Manager.
I. E. Sklare, manager of the Portland, Ore.,
Remiek Song & C-ift Shop in co-operation with Ray-
mond Charles, resident manager of the Columbia
Theatre, featured a group of Remick hits in connec-
tion with the presentation of "Excitement," starring
Laura La Plaute. A jazz band of 20 pieces led by
the only girl leader of dance orchestra in the Pacific
northwest, gave a 20-minute program augmented by
the regular orchestra of the theatre under Harry
Linden, the director.
Among the Remick numbers featured were, "Where
the Lazy Daisies Grow," "I Wonder Whose Dancing
With You Tonight," "There's Yes, Yes in Your
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
Chicago
Detroit
Eyes," "Hulu, Hulu Dream Girl," "You've Simply
Got Me Cookoo," and "Somebody's Wrong." Mr.
Sklare says that the sale of these numbers was
greatly stimulated by the featuring of them in this
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The sixty-eighth anniversary of its founding was
celebrated recently by J. Fischer & Bro., New York.
Aaron T. Mills, father of E. C. Mills, chairman of
the executive board of the Music Publishers' Protec-
tive Association, died recently at his home in Texas.
New copyright regulations have been issued by
the Minister of Trade and Commerce of the Domin-
ion of Canada.
The Turner Music Co. has bought out the interests
of the Burgener Music Co. at Price, Utah.
The Logan Music Co. is holding a "moving" sale
preparatory to moving to new quarters.
Albright's Drug Store, North Central street, Knox-
ville, Tenn., has added a music department.
W. C. Wiley, music dealer, Tyler, Tex., has sold
his business to T. E. Swann.
PLANS FOR MUSIC W E E K .
Tentative plans for Music Week in Columbus, Ind.,
from May 4 to 10 were made at a meeting of local
musicians at the Chamber of Commerce last week.
According to the plans the week will open with com-
munity singing in Commercial Park, which will be
followed by a program given by the Bartholomew
County chorus of more than 100 voices. During the
week the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will give a
concert in the Crump Opera House and there will be
music programs given at the County Orphans' Home
and Infirmary. A Music Committee, of which Mrs.
H. Lee Bassett is chairman, has been appointed to
arrange for, and have charge of the week's musical
events.
LEGISLATORS GROWING T I R E D .
Members of the Authors, Composers and Music
Publishers Association seem to be a unit this week in
the belief that they will win out in the proposed new
copyright bill now before Congress. Word comes to
the publishers that senators and representatives at
Washington, to whom requests have been sent to vote
for the new bill, have become tired and annoyed at
receiving such floods of telegrams and letters many of
them ready-made in stereotyped form or entirely
printed, lacking only a signature.
BOSTON PUBLISHERS MEET.
The last meeting of the season was held last week
by the Boston Music Publishers* Association. It
was the last of the bi-monthly winter gatherings at
the Hotel Brunswick and was presided over by First
Vice-President Walter M. Bacon in the absence of
President D. Deane, Jr. A very interesting discus-
sion took place as to the ways and means of carrying
out the sheet music price recommendation of the Fed-
eral Trade Commission.
SHEET MUSIC DEALERS MEET
Convention Will Follow the Manufacturers at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
This year's convention of the National Association
of Sheet Music Dealers will be held during the week
of June 9, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York,
following the manufacturers' and dealers' meetings.
The subjects to be introduced this year are of great
importance to the trade. The new method of pricing
music and books, which was resolved upon by the
music publishers on October 2nd last, before the Fed-
eral Trade Commission, and which was afterward
approved by the commission, will be put into effect
June 1.
President Edward P. Little, of the National Asso-
ciation of Sheet Music Dealers, has expressed himself
in favor of the association establishing a clearing
house for its members.
This will appeal to retail-
ers, and especially to those who are distantly located
from the music publishing centers. A clearing house
would obviate most of the delays that are now in-
curred in the procuring of specially ordered publica-
tions. The matter will be discussed at the convention.
The increasing membership in the National Asso-
ciation of Sheet Music Dealers is an indication of how
the retail trade looks upon the organization, which is
alert to present the views of the dealers on matters
of common interest. Dealers who are not members
of the association should apply to the secretary,
Thomas J. Donlan, 236 West 75th street, New York.
The yearly dues are $5 for dealers with one to three
people employed, and $10 for all others.
FEATURES HAGEN'S SONGS
Strand Roof Orchestra, in New York, in Whirlwind
Success with Lot of "Hits."
Al Katz, director of the "Kentucks of K. Y.," an
exceptional nine-piece combination that is starred at
the Strand Roof, of New York, is featuring three
songs by Milt Hagen, publicity director for Paul
Specht, and also for the Consolidated Orchestras
Booking Exchange, Inc.
The Katz band has a musical style that is all their
own. They frequently do recording work of unusual
merit. The Milt Hagen songs featured are A. J.
Stasny's "Heart-Broken Rose," Berlin's "Yawning,"
and Ponce's "Old Homestead" waltz, which is rapidly
becoming a classic.
PUBLISHING HOUSE INCORPORATED.
Articles of incorporation were recently filed for the
Lillenas Publishing Co., an Indianapolis music pub-
lishing firm, the incorporators of which are Haldor
Lillenas and Joe Overmyer, of Indianapolis, and
Emory W. Petticord, of Portland, Ore. The capi-
talization is for $10,000.
J E W E L E R ADDS S H E E T MUSIC.
The very latest music is assured to Danville, Ky.,
musical folk by McWaters & Martin, local jeweler,
which firm has arranged to carry a very complete
line of sheet music in all the latest hits from grand
opera down to the most stirring jazz.
"MOBILE BLUES."
The Balaban & Katz Chicago Theater Orchestra
last week featured '"Mobile Blues," one of the late
hits of Melrose Bros., Chicago music publishers.
U N I T E D STATES HAS ANTHEM.
"The poem written by Francis Scott Key, entitled
'The Star-Spangled Banner,' with music composed by
John Stafford Smith, be and the same is hereby de-
clared to be the national anthem of the United States
of America, and under its care and protection," was
the ruling of the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives last week in approving of
the bill of Representative Linthicum of Maryland.
BUYS NEVADA FIRM'S STOCK.
The Woodtil Jewelry Co., Nevada, Mo., recently
sold its music stock to the Martin Bros. Piano Co., of
Springfield.
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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