January 24, 1925.
19
PRESTO
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
An investigation showed increased patronage at
the opera when McCormack appeared after he had
sung before the microphone. A phonographic record
reported increased sales of McCormack records.
C. R. Hunt, Manager Starr Piano Co., Chicago, Vis- store
Music stores have traced great demands for popular
its Milwaukee and Finds Trade Improvement.
songs to their having been sung over the radio.
It is interesting to learn that the publishers of
The demand for Gennett records has been incessant
in the city of Milwaukee, according to the report "Marcheta," one of the ballad numbers sung by Mc-
made by C. R. Hunt, manager Starr Piano Co.'s Cormack over radio, reports an unprecedented run
Chicago branch, who recently visited the Milwaukee on this number, having sold 12,500 copies of this
selection in the two days immediately following the
trade.
Mr. Hunt's mission to the Wisconsin city was to New Year's concert.
make arrangements for the new year and to size up
Phonograph dealers also report favorably on the
conditions generally. The local representatives have increased sale of records since McCormack's initial
taken advantage of the inclement weather conditions performance. One downtown store in New York
to push the sale of Gennetts, with the argument that which had not sold a record of the great American
they supply the greatest entertainment medium for ballad singer in weeks, reported the sale of one hun-
the home.
(lied and twenty-five of his records the week follow-
The Chicago house carries large stocks of late Gen- ing the broadcasting of the Carnegie Hall concert.
nett records, inasmuch that the Milwaukee dealers
order their records from Chicago instead of the fac-
tory at Richmond, Ind.
Mr. Hunt also reports a steady demand for Gen-
r.etts in Chicago and surrounding territory.
Great Crowd Attends Annual Event of Talking
Machine and Radio Men at Hotel Pennsylvania.
NEW GENNETT RELEASES
MILWAUKEE RECORD TRADE
Fine List of Dancing Music and Novelties Issued
This Week by Starr Piano Co.
Among the latest releases of Gennett records by
the Starr Piano Co, Richmond, Ind., are the follow-
ing latest hits for dancing:
Terrible Blues (Clarence Williams) and Santa Claus
Blues (Straight-Kahn), Red Onion Jazz Babies.
Tell Me Dreamy Eyes (fox trot) (Kahn-Spitalny-
Gordan), Frank Cornwell, vocal chorus, and Where's
My Sweetie Hiding? (fox trot) (Malie-Fineh-Britt-
Little), Perley Breed's Shepard Colonial Orchestra.
Peter Paw (Henry-Henderson), Westchester Bilt-
more C©unt,rjy Club Orchestra, and Nobody Loves
You, Like" I Do (Davis-Akst), Willie Creager's Or-
chestra.
'": '
Sweetheart Days (waltz) (Hill-Morrison), Paul
Sanderson and 'His Orchestra, T re main Bros., vocal
chorus, atfd By; the Waters of the Minnetonka
(Cavanass-Thurlow-Lieurance), Lange-McKay Or-
chestra.
The new popular vocal numbers are:
Please Be Good to My Old Girl (Dixon-Rose-Hen-
rlerson) and By the Mississippi (Rosamonde-Davis),
The ball of Talking Machine and Radio Men, Wilson Harper, tenor, orchestra accompaniment.
Old-time fiddler: Ricketts Hornpipe and Wild
Inc., the big association of the trade of New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut took place at the Penn- Horse, Tweedy Bros., piano accompaniment.
Colored vocal: Jail House Blues (Whistler) and
sylvania Hotel, New York, January 19, and was at-
tended by the biggest crowd ever assembled for a I'm a Jazz Baby (Whistler), Whistler and His Jug
social event of the association. The balcony of the Band.
Old Irish tunes: Stack of Barley Medley and Irish
ballroom was reserved for members and their families Hornpipe
Medley—"Limerick" and "Cork" (horn-
and guests and every comfort provided.
pipe), the McNamara Trio.
An attractive feature of the ball was the succession
Foreign (Spanish): Padre Nuestro (tango) (E.
of well-known orchestras in the program of dance Delfino), Orquesta Miraflores, and Bajadera
music. Lopez went on at 9 p. m. after the Inter- (Shimmy) (E. Kalman), Orquesta Texana.
national Novelty Orchestra had opened the program.
Then, at 10 p m., Charles Dornberger and his Vic-
work on a large addition to the Den-
tor Orchestra from the "Silver Slipper," assisted by ver Construction
Music Co., Denver, Colo., on a lot recently ac-
Jane Green, the Victor jazz singer of "Red Hot quired at 1540 Stout street, directly adjoining the
Mama," entertained. Other features were Geo. present quarters of that company, will begin in a
Olsen's Victor Orchestra and a galaxy of star few veeks, according to E. A. Cox, president of the
orchestras.
firm.
JAZZ AT ASSOCIATION BALL
EFFECTS OF BROADCASTING
Dealers Claim Songs Sung Into Microphone by John
McCormack Were Stimulated in Sales.
The question whether radio broadcasting of songs
is injurious to the sales of the sheet music and pho-
nograph records of them reached a heated controver-
sial prominence recently when John McCormack and
Lucrezia Bori broadcast from Carnegie Hall. At the
announcement there had been many connected with
the producing of opera who have insisted the broad-
casting of opera meant a financial resistance to them.
Theatrical circles feared box-office loss through the
extension of broadcasting to include the footlight
stars. Makers of phonographic records also expressed
fear of decreased sales.
Comment in New York newspapers recently seems
to indicate these people have cried before they were
hurt.
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