October 25, 1924.
REMICK HITS KEEP SALE PACE
will need all these rolls in stock. They are ready to
ship. Regular return privilege applies."
Daily Newspaper Scout in Chicago Makes Interest-
ing Discoveries in the Various Departments.
HYMN COMPOSER HONORED
"In piano rolls we found these best ones," writes
Tom Bashaw, music sales observer for the Chicago
Tribune, who had visited Lyon & Ilealy: "'Charley,
My Boy,' 'I Want to Be Happy,' and 'Tea for Two,'
'Dreamer of Dreams.' 'Follow the Swallow,' 'Drift-
wood' and 'Doodle-Do-Do.' It is noticeable that
many 'hits' appear in all three of the departments.
It seems that when a song's a 'hit,' its popularity is
reflected throughout the entire field,"
"Dreamer of Dreams" and "Follow 7 the Swallow"
are two recent hits from J. H. Rcmick & Co.
"Lingering awhile at the sheet music counter at
Lyon & Healy's is a pleasant diversion just now,"
continues the scout. "And a glance over the best
sellers in that line during the past week is an inter-
esting sidelight on things musical. The 'hits,' as far
as counter sales have gone for the last seven days are
'Autumn Time,' the new Frank Magine gem; 'Eliza,'
the catchy Gus Kahn fox trot; 'Follow the Swallow';
'Driftwood,' 'Doodle-Do-Do,' 'Dear One/ 'Put Away
a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine/ 'Broken Dreams,'
'In a Wonderful World of Our Own' and 'Too
Tired.' And the ladies at the counter said 'All Aloue,'
just issued, had taken such a big jump right at the
outset that it's certain to be one of the biggest Irving
Berlin sellers in many months, starting this week.
"Up in the phonograph record department 'Dreamer
of Dreams' and Al Jolson's new record with 'Follow
the Swallow' on one side and '1 Wonder What's Be-
come of Sally?' on the other have been among the
best sellers this last week, with 'Tea for Two' and
'Driftwood' keeping up the rapid-fire sale pace."
Miss Mary A. Baker, Who Wrote "Master, the Tenv
pest Is Rag'ng," Celebrates 93rd Birthday.
0 R S NUMBERS BROADCASTED
Prominent Artists on Tour Stimulate Sales for Deal-
ers Who Tie Up with Publicity Feature.
Radio is advertising Q R S music rolls, made by
the Q R S Music Co., Chicago, and Russell Robin-
son and Al Bernard are the artists selected as the
means towards the desirable end—sales. These artists
now on tour for a twelve weeks' engagement are
broadcasting numbers made into Q R S rolls. An
announcement to that effect has been made to the
trade and dealers are urged to tic up their sales with
this admirable publicity feature. The announcement
reads:
"Your customers will be listening in on the radio to
our own Russell Robinson, assisted by Al Bernard.
They began Sept. 4 and are booked for a broadcast-
ing tour of twelve weeks.
'"They will broadcast from Chicago, Minneapolis,
St. Louis, Kansas City and Memphis stations up to
and including November.
"Their program will consist of the following num-
bers: 'Let Me Be the First to Kiss You Good
Morning,' 'Blue Eyed Sally,' 'Talking to Myself,'
'Let Your Home Be My Home,' and 'Xever Yet
No Place Blues.'
"This campaign will be a real sales help and you
ADVERTISING SONG BOOKS
Editor Presto: One of our customers inquires
about a collection of old-fashioned songs, suitable for
giving out to prospects and the general public. If
you can inform us where these are printed, you will
confer a great favor, and incidentally boost the piano
business, as it is a foregone conclusion that every-
one receiving a book will need a piano on which to
produce the accompaniments.—A Jobber.
Reply: About the best book of the kind within
our knowledge is put forth in quantities by the Illi-
nois State Register of Springfield, 111. We believe
if you write to that concern you will get a sample of
about what you want.—Presto.
Over 50 SOURS, wortta and music for 4 voices and piano,
'•'.'£ p.p., 6x9, in editions with special illuminated cover
printed to order as wanted. Mention Presto.
Miss Mary A. Baker, composer of the famous old
hymn. "Master, the Tempest Is Raging," celebrated
the ninety-third anniversary of her birth at Maywood,
111., this week, and the whole town celebrated it with
her.
She wrote the hymn just after the great Chicago
fire, and the way Maywood celebrated her birthday
was by singing that hymn in all the churches:
"Master, the tempest is raging, the billows are toss-
ing high,
The sky is o'ershadowed with blackness, no shelter
or help is nigh
"
It begins that way, and Miss Baker says the
"tempest" was in her own heart when she began to
write it. But peace came with the writing, and she
finished in another vein:
''Master, the tempest is over, the elements sweetly
rest,
Earth's sun in the calm lake is mirrored, and heaven's
within my breast
"
Billy Sunday, the evangelist, was one who helped
make the hymn famous, for it has been o«ie of his
favorites.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
"March to the White House," by Charles K. Har-
ris, has been dedicated to John W. Davis, nominee
for President on the Democratic ticket.
College activities in music are reflected in in-
creased sales of sheet music and music books in the
Chicago sheet music departments.
Additional space for the music department of the
Jones Store Co., Kansas City, Mo., has been pro-
vided in the sheet music section on the third floor
of the Twelfth and Main street building.
"The Spirit of the U. S. A." is the name of a new
march for bands by E. F. Paull.
The sheet music shop of Mrs. Laura M. Hurd, on
Ashland street, North Adams, Mass., was damaged
by fire and water recently.
Francis Anrooney has opened a sheet music store
in Ellenburg, Wash.
A branch of the Home Phonograph Co., St. Louis,
opened at 7633 South Broadway, has a sheet music
section.
The sixth annual Music Day celebrated in Dallas,
Tex., Sept. 27, gave considerable stimulation to the
sheet music business.
"Mandalay," a Remick hit, is the best seller in the
Hopper-Kelly Co.'s store, Seattle, according to Mrs.
Nellie Williams, the department manager.
APPRECIATES SHEET MUSIC SECTION.
The sheet music section of the William A. Kaun
Music Co., Milwaukee, is one which has advertised
the house in an excellent w f ay and made prominent
its character for prompt and exact service. In dis-
posnig of the piano department to the Baldwin Piano
Co. recently the company had the plan to concentrate
its energies on the musical merchandise, phonograph
and sheet music departments, the business of
which has grown amazingly within the past few
years. The sheet music department will be continued
on the ground floor, where enlarged space has been
provided, according to Paul E. Mueller, manager of
the Kaun company.
"STROLLERS" USE BUESCHER.
The Multnomah Hotel Strollers, the exclusive
Buescher organization, which has made a great hit
with the public in Portland, Ore., has been engaged
by the Rivoli Theater for each Monday, when Fran-
cisco Lougo and his symphony orchestra take the
day off. The Strollers are featuring "Bygones," the
Sherman, Clay & Co. hit.
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IN RADIO SALES FIELD
Various Activities in Manufacturing Advertis-
ing and Selling the Sets Told in Items
Collected from Many Sources.
Euclid Music House, Cleveland, O., which operates
four stores in that city, recently sponsored the "Nite
Caps" which gave an interesting program over Sta-
tion WJAX.
The New England Phonograph Distributing Co.,
221 Columbus avenue, Boston, has added radio re-
ceiving sets to its stock. Joseph Burke is the depart-
ment manager.
The Meyer Miles Music Co., Wichita, Kans., fur-
nished a Baldwin piano and supplied its own enter-
tainers for a radio program broadcast recently from
Chamber of Commerce Station WEAH.
The McCormack Music Co., Inc., Portland, Ore.,
has installed a radio department and installed a stock
o.f receiving sets and accessories.
The Russell Gates Music Co., Denver, Colo., has
added the De Forest Radiophone to its radio line.
The development of radio as it interests the music
dealer was explained to visitors to the store of the
George C. Wille Music Co., Canton, O., recently.
Familiar talks were given by the salesmen at the
radio show in that city.
The George S. Dales Co., Akron, Ohio, has added
a line of radio sets with R. M. Lamb in charge.
NOW WE HAVE REFORMED JAZZ
Chicago Music Critic Observes the Miracle That
Twelve Years Have Wrought.
Glenn Dillard Gunn writes his reformed views
about jazz, or rather his opinion about reformed jazz,
as played by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra in
Chicago this week. The music critic of the Herald
and Examiner admits that Mr. Whiteman has made
good his claim that jazz has created a new orches-
tral art. "What he calls 'the American orchestra' is
distinctive, full of new colors and effects, technically
as expert in its specialty as any symphony orchestra,
Mr. Stock's perfect band not excepted," writes Mr.
Gunn.
It is a new variety that the music critic describes
when he says: "The harshness, blatancy and vul-
garity of early jazz have disappeared. In their place
are heard suavity, an astonishing refinement of dyna-
mic contrasts, warm, rich and many-colored tones
and rhythms that are insistent and varied. An as-
tonishing manifestation is jazz. In twelve short years
it has risen from ugliness to beauty. It is a beauty
quite devoid of nobility. One should, perhaps, call it
prettiness."
WALTER MARSHALL BACON DIES.
Walter Marshall Bacon, for thirty-five years asso-
ciated as treasurer with the White Smith Music Pub-
lishing Co., Boston, died last week as the result of
an attack of angina pectoris. He was trustee of the
estate of the late Daniel J. White. Mr. Bacon was
president of the Music Publishers' Association of the
United States for 1912-1914 and also president of the
Boston Music Publishers' Association for 1911-12.
REMICK SONG HITS
Mandalay
It Had to Be You
There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes
Dreamer of Dreams
Follow the Swallow
New Kind of Man
My Best Girl
Me and the Boy Friend
Little Black Buddy
Until Tomorrow
Step Henrietta
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
The Grass Is Always Greener (In the
Other Fellow's Yard)
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
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