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PRESTO
August 16, 1924.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
SHOWS REMICK POPULARITY
Big Sales of Remick Productions in Talking Machine
Record Form, a Feature of Trade.
The wide popularity of "Mandalay," the hit of J.
H. Remick & Co., is shown by the big, continuous
call for the record of the song made by Art Hick-
man's Orchestra, of the Biltmore Hotel, New York.
The popularity of "Bring Back That Old Fashioned
Waltz" is also shown by the big demand for it in the
talking machine record form.
"I Wonder Who's Dancing with You Tonight" has
a big sale with dealers in sheet music everywhere,
but in many places "There's Yes, Yes in Your
Eyes" is the liveliest seller among the productions of
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Phenomenal sales of the latter song are reported
by John J. Fitzpatrick, manager of the sheet music
department of Shephard's, Providence, R. I.
THEY WILL NEVER LEARN
Business Bureau, and the Chicago man was located.
Mrs. Jacob Patten, mother of the gril, states that
a letter was lately received from a Chicago attorney,
in which he returned the $40 stating that he had been
instructed to return it. It is believed that this was
done as a result of the investigation in the hope of
evading prosecution.
The foregoing facts appeared in the Delphos Cou-
rant, and these same warnings have been found
in Presto ever since the "Song Wanted" schemes
were exposed many years ago. But people learn
slowly—if at all.
ADDS SHEET MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
With its usual thoroughness in publicity, the Wiley
B. Allen Co.. San Diego, Cal., is calling the attention
of the public to its new sheet music department.
J. H. Cooley, the manager of the department, has
shown his keen regard for proper methods of sheet
music presentation in the fixtures and furnishings
installed. The line carried includes the library edi-
tions of B. F. Wood, G. Shirmer, Carl Fischer,
Oliver Ditson, Clayton F. Summy, Boston Music Co.,
and others.
Natural Love of Melody Keeps Victims Falling Into
the Pits of the Song Sharks.
Prosecutions will likely follow soon against a "song
shark" who attempted to swindle a Delphos, Ohio,
crippled girl.
C. L. Dennis, of the Better Business Bureau of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, has written
to Delphos seeking more definite information con-
cerning the matter, and states that criminal charges
are expected to result.
The Delphos girl is Miss Edna Fay Patton, for
thirteen years a helpless invalid. Since she was 17
years old she has been unable to walk.
With the hope of obtaining sufficient funds to
take care of the expense of a surgical operation, the
girl has been making small articles of jewelry, and
with hope of remuneration, she wrote the words for
a religious song, "Under His Wings Shalt Thou
Trust." Without the knowledge of her parents, she
sent this song to a "Song Words Wanted" schemer
in Chicago, who had advertised for songs.
She received a reply in a short time, commending
her work and offering to set it to music and have it
copyrighted and published for the sum of $40. This
amount she sent to the man, who gave his name and
address as Frank Radnor, 6048 Prairie avenue, Chi-
cago, explaining that she hoped to get enough money
out of the song for the operation.
When later letters sent to the address were re-
turned with the information that he had gone and
left no forwarding address, Miss Patton naturally
suspected that she had been victimized.
She then wrote to the copyright department at
the Patent Office at Washington, and learned that
no copyright had been taken out, although she had
printed copies of the song which bore the copyright
mark.
The matter was then taken up with the Better
SOUSA MUSIC COLLECTION.
"The Sousa Music Library" will be made an inter-
esting section of the music division of the Library
of Congress, according to the announcement made by
Carl Engel, chief of the division, John Philip Sousa
is to present the greater part of his extensive music
iibrary to the Library of Congress, where it is to
be kept intact. That part of the Sousa collection
not given to the Library of Congress will be dis-
tributed to libraries throughout the country.
REMICK SONG HITS
NEW SCHOOL CATALOG.
A new school music catalog has been issued by the
Chart Music Publishing Company, Chicago. Unison
songs, two-part songs, three-part songs, quartets,
duets, band and orchestra books, violin methods and
miscellaneous supplies for the teacher are catalogued
in the book.
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
FEATURES SHEET MUSIC.
The Atlantic City Music Shoppe, which recently
opened its doors at 37 South Virginia avenue, At-
lantic City, N. J., is handling complete stocks of
sheet music, Columbia phonographs and records,
Conn band instruments and other musical merchan-
dise. It occupies one of the best business locations
in the city, midway between the Boardwalk and
Atlantic avenue.
VOCALSTYLE SONG AND DANCE HITS.
I Can't Get the One I Want, fox trot; My Papa
Doesn't Two-Time, No Time, blues; Please, fox
trot; Red Hot Mamma, fox trot; Somebody Loves
Me, fox trot; You'll Never Get to Heaven with Those
Eyes, fox trot. All Vocalstyle rolls released since
April 1, 1924, have the Rewind and Replay perfora-
tions for use on all standard reproducing player-
pianos.
FEATURING SONG IN PORTLAND, ORE.
"Rock-a-bye, My Baby Blues," the new Sherman,
Clay & Co. waltz song, was featured by Hazel Stall-
ings, America's premier whistler, who appeared in
Portland, Ore., recently for a week in a novelty play,
"Echoes from Birdland," at the Columbia Theater.
The song was most effective and charming and
added much to the popularity of this number.
VISITORS TO PORTLAND.
Among the visitors to the Portland, Ore., trade
last week was Joe Skilton, representing G. Schirmer,
Carl Yager of the John Church Company, Arthur
Hauser of Carl Fisher, and Joseph Risher, represent-
ing J. Fisher & Brother.
WRITER COMES TO LIFE
Composer of "Long, Long Trail," Given Up as Dead,
Is Very Much Alive.
Zo Elliott, composer of the song hit, "The Long,
Long Trail Awinding," who was given up as dead in
the world war, is not only much alive, but is engaged
in the composing of new songs with Milt Hagen,
New York songsmith, one of the new melodies being
"'Trail o' My Heart."
Just before the war Elliott, then a student at Yale,
wrote the "Long, Long Trail' and tried to sell it to
every publisher in New York, but without success.
Going to England to continue his studies at Cam-
bridge, Elliott placed the song immediately with an
English publisher and one of the American houses
who had turned down the song hastily snapped up
the American selling rights.
The song sold four million copies and is still a
good seller. Elliott made a fortune out of it. After
enlisting in the United States service and serving
honorably and well, he settled down in a chateau in
Paris quietly to pursue his musical studies. It was
at this time that his American friends, losing track
of him, spread the talc that he had lost his life in the
war. The story was widely circulated and Elliott
often has difficulty convincing people that he is alive.
The other day, Elliott suddenly appeared in New
York, looked up his old chum, Milt Hagen, and to-
gether they wrote another song called "Trail o' My
Heart," which they regard as a successor to the
"Long, Long Trail." It is published by E. B. Marks
Music Co., of New York.
CAREER OF QEO. COHAN
Versatile Actor, Dramatist and Song Writer Saved
Himself by Melody Making and Singing.
As a boy George M. Cohan did not like to act;
he preferred to write, and his father thought he
should be a musician, according to an article in the
Cincinnati Enquirer by C. C. Powell.
Son of vaudeville performers, Cohen left school
at 8 and became second violinist in the theater
orchestra of his native Providence, R. I. A year later
he peddled songs among audiences. At 12 he
picked out original songs on the piano with one
finger and sold them to performers, charging from
$1 to $3 apiece.
At 9 he appeared in "Daniel Boone" and at 12,
with his parents and sister, he played in vaudeville
sketches as the Four Cohans. He did not like to
dance or act and in odd moments composed several
songs which became popular. Later he wrote a
sketch, "The Professor's Wife," and at 16 persuaded
the manager to let the family try it out. It made
a hit, and he wrote other successes. After much
effort he made "The Governor's Son" into a musical
play—and it failed.
Then he wrote and starred in "Little Johnny
Jones." Broadway sneered at play and star; so he
took it on the road and every night for two weeks
rewrote and remade the play. Back on Broadway
it became the rage. Other successes followed and
Cohan became "the Yankee Doodle Boy" and was a
favorite as writer, singer and dancer. Then he wrote
"Popularity," omitting music and dancing—and it
failed.
Filling the play with Cohan songs and changing
the title to "The Man Who Owns Broadway," caused
it to score a big success. Other popular productions
followed, and Cohan found himself a millionaire,
with theaters in New York.
After retirement for a year he produced the all-
speaking play, "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford." It
was a success, as were "Seven Keys to Baldpate"
and other nonmusical productions. Then he wrote
"Over There," the song hit of the last war, and sold
it for $25,000.
At 46 Cohan owns several theaters, is still writing
plays and composing songs, and once in a while he
takes part on the stage.
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
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