PRESTO
July 19, 1924.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
MOVIE FILM PRODUCERS PLEA
Vitagraph Wants Old Sea Tunes for Special Musical
Score for "Captain Blood."
"Captain Blood," the nautical romance by Rafael
Sabatini, which Vitagraph is picturizing on a heroic
scale, is to have a special score created by one of
America's foremost composers.
Vitagraph is collecting old English, French and
Spanish nautical tunes; old Yankee sea chanteys
and legendary pirate songs, whose airs will be woven
into this proposed "symphony of the sea," and used
as its theme and motif.
Vitagraph is now engaged in exhaustive research
for this "marine musical material" and will welcome
suggestions and information, which may be addressed
to the Musical Director, "Captain Blood," Vitagraph
Pictures, 1400 Locust avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Musicians' scrap books may give up many charac-
teristic bits that may be appreciated by the musical
director.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
A reciprocal copyright arrangement has been con-
cluded between the United States and the Union of
South Africa effective July 1. A presidential procla-
mation and a proclamation by the governor general
made the law effective.
William McDermott, of Jerome H. Remick & Co.,
district manager for northern Pennsylvania and
western New York, on returning from Erie, Pa.,
where he was feature soloist on the steamer "Ameri-
cana," said the dealers everywhere report success
with the Remick line. He has returned to Buffalo
and is working on the boat plying between Buffalo
and Crystal Beach, Ont. He has arranged a number
of window displays and placed window posters in
many stores throughout the city, creating a big de-
mand for Remick hits.
The Baltimore Music Publishing Co. was recently
granted a certificate of incorporation by the Secre-
tary of State of New York. It has a capital of $10,-
000. V. and A. Lauria and E. Levy are the incor-
porators.
In deference to the memory of Victor Herbert a
fantasy composed of a number of Victor Herbert's
most prominent and popular compositions was intro-
duced in the '"Ziegfeld Follies," which recently opened
at the Amsterdam Theater, New York.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, reports the sale of stand-
ard and popular sheet music and books as well ahead
of last year. At the present rate of gain, it is esti-
mated that this year will exceed last by many thou-
sands of copies.
Ruth Ahern, international vaudeville headliner, was
recently heard on the KPO program in San Fran-
REMICK SONG HITS
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
I Wonder Who's Dancing with You
Tonight
There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes
Hula Hula Dream Girl
It Had to Be You
Mandalay
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
Until Tomorrow
Twilight Rose
Watchin' the Moonrise
Counting the Days
Not Yet Susette
Arizona Stars
If You'll Come Back
Land of Broken Dreams
cisco. She sang a full program of Sherman, Clay &
Co. song hits, including "Whispering," which she
made popular in England a few years ago, "Oriental
Love Dreams," "Rock a Bye My Baby Blues," "I
Don't Know Why," "I Don't Want You to Cry Over
Me" and "I Cried for You."
ORCHESTRA PLAYED OLDTIMERS
List of Requests Nearly Stumped Leader of Paul
Specht Orchestra.
Harold Oxley, director of the Paul Specht Post
Lodge Orchestra and Okeh record artist had this sad
story to tell this week:
"The other night one of the patrons at the Post
Lodge dropped in and requested that we play 'Dar-
dennella,' 'Lily of the Valley,' 'Mon Homme,' 'Cherie,'
'Margie,' 'Georgette,' 'Do You Ever Think of Me,'
'Smiles,' 'Old Grey Bonnet,' 'Poor Butterfly.'
"I think this includes all hits of the last ten years.
At least he missed very few, and when we had fin-
ished we didn't even get thanks. All of which goes
to show that an orchestra's work is not all play."
CHANCE FOR COMPOSERS.
American composers who have hidden their cher-
ished works in the privacy of desks may now brush
the dust off their manuscripts and get them ready
for presentation, advises the Pacific Coast Musical
Review, San Francisco, which says: Josiah Zuro
announces that his orchestra, the Sunday Symphony
Society, will be glad to consider for performance the
meritorious symphonic music of native musicians.
The compositions should be original and new, though
there is no objection to pieces that have been played
once or twice before.
COLLEGE SONGS RECORDED.
A welcome addition to the collection of college
song records has been made by the Starr Piano Co.,
Richmond, Ind., with Gennett record No. 10089, for
which the Criterion Quartette sang two Kansas Uni-
versity songs, "Crimson and the Blue" (George Bar-
low Penny) and "I'm a Jayhawk" (George "Dumpy"
Bowles, '08-'ll), bubbling over with life, spirit and
youthful energy of a college crowd. Both songs haye
band accompaniment and were recorded under the
supervision of Claire L. Deitrich.
PLAYS DAWES MELODY.
The first rendition in Philadelphia of the melody
recently composed by General Charles G. Dawes,
Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency, was
given last week at the Lemon Hill Concert by the
Fairmount Park Symphony Orchestra. The first
playing of the melody was by Fritz Kreisler, who
selected the melody on its merits, not knowing the
name of the composer. Nathan Franko, conductor
of the park orchestra, said the piece is a finely written
violin composition.
REMICK SONG FAVORED.
The sales of records in the Danes-Beebe Music Co.,
Salt Lake City, Utah, arc indications of the favor for
the sheet music of the favored songs. According to
G. Todd Taylor, manager of the phonograph depart-
ment in the house named, the biggest record seller is
'There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes," a Remick suc-
cess. The sheet music of the same song is favored
in a similar lively degree.
STATE SONG RECORD SELLS.
A big and continuous sale is reported for the Gen-
nett record of the Oregon state song, "Oregon
State," which was recorded by Walter Jenkins, of
Portland. On the reverse of the record is "My Own
United States." Mr. Jenkins is well known for his
fine voice in the Pacific Northwest section, and the
state song has the proper lyrical and musical appeal.
REMICK CONVENTION MUSIC
"Until Tomorrow" Was Tune Most Frequently
Played by Band at Recent Democratic Event.
"Until Tomorrow," a widely selling hit of J. H.
Remick & Co., was the tune most frequently played
by the band during the days and nights of the
Democratic convention in Madison Square Gardens,
New York. The count of the different tunes played
was kept by a newspaperman who became interested
in the music from its effects on the emotions of the
warring delegates. The ability of music to soothe
the savage breasts of disappointed balloters was con-
tinuously shown and the humor in the band leader's
selections often keyed up the crowd to a more genial
frame of mind.
Remick's "Until Tomorrow" was often appropriate
but the band leader had other Remick hits to use,
whose strains were familiar to most people in the
convention. "If You'll Come Back," played at ad-
journment, always evoked a good humored howl of
appreciation. Another Remick tune that got the
crowd on several occasions was "A New Kind of
Man with a New Kind of Love for Me." "Steppin'
Out" often fitted when some hopeful candidate was
losing in the balloting. Towards the end of the con-
vention the delegates with a sense of humor saw the
appropriateness of "Land of Broken Dreams."
While "Until Tomorrow" was the tune most fre-
quently played, according to the observant reporter,
"There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes" was the one the
younger portion, the fox-troting majority, seemed to
like best.
HAROLD FLAMMER IN CHICAGO.
Harold Flammer, music publisher, New York, was
in Chicago this week. Mr. Flammer is the publisher
of the works of many prominent composers, includ-
ing Cadman, De Koven, Friml, Hadley, La Forge,
Sousa, Scott, Oley Speaks, Harriet Ware and
James H. Rogers.
HEARST HITS
You Can Take Me Away From Dixie
Forget Me Not
(Means Remember Me)
Bringin' Home the Bacon
My Dream Moon
Waiting for the Rainbow
Only a Butterfly
June
Broken Dreams
Lovers Lane Is a Lonesome Trail
If I Had You
I'm Falling in Love With a Shadow
Just a Lullaby
In a Wonderful World of Our Own
Someone Else
(Took Your Place in My Heart)
Boost Your Sheet Music Sales. Record Releases Announced.
Victor, Columbia, Brunswick, "Vocation, Okeh, Paramount
and other records played by the famous orchestras, including
Vincent Lopez, Paul Specht, Ben Selvin, Jack Chapman,
Don Bestor, Carl Fenton, Ray Miller, etc.
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