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Issue: 1925 2014

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February 28, 1925.
PRESTO
VOCALSTYLE MARCH BULLETIN
Very Latest Music Rolls from the Wide-Awake In-
dustry at Cincinnati, Ohio.
IDhere Supply
aluraijs meets
the Demand j
Hardware, Felts, Cloths, Hammers, etc
for Pianos, Organs, Players. Talking
Machines, Special Stampings, Turn-
ings, etc., when you order from us.
WHERE SUPPLY MEETS DEMAND.
The American Piano Supply Co.,
No. 112 East 13th Street
NEW YORK CITY
13168—At the End of the Road, ballad. 13166—
Back Where the Daffodils Grow, fox trot. 13145—
Because They All Love You, fox trot. 13163—Big
Boy! fox trot. 13160^-Bye, Bye Baby, fox trot.
13151—Copenhagen, blues. 13154—Honest and Truly,
waltz. 13165—Indian Love Call, fox trot. 13156—
Let Me Be the First to Kiss You Good Morning and
the Last to Kiss You Good Night, fox trot. 13155—
My Best Girl, fox trot. 13158—Old Pal, fox trot.
13167—Peter Pan (I Love You), fox trot. 13062—
Quadrille No. 1, containing Wild Horse, Girl I Left
Behind Me, Devil's Dream, Cripple Creek, Irish
Washerwoman. 13164—Show Me the Way, fox trot.
13157—Tell Her in the Springtime (1925 Music Box
Revue), fox trot. 13152—"The Shenandoah," march.
13161—Waltz Me Lightly—Hold Me Tightly, waltz.
13162—You're Just a Flower from an Old Boquet, fox
trot.
Instrumental: 50460—"De Molay" Commandery
March. 50511—Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour
(with variations), sacred.
TROUBLES OF RADIO ANNOUNCER
Requests for Special Broadcasting of a Purely Per-
sonal Nature Embarrasses the Station Official.
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PIANOS
The radio announcer has his troubles, according to
H. W. Arlin, of KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pa., and all of
them do not arise from static and other phenomena
of radio sending. His audience is a big one and the
announcer receives a multiplicity of requests, the most
of which he necessarily must ignore.
Radio, according to Mr. Arlin, has discovered how
many people really love good music and the vast
number indifferent to the quality of the musical pro-
grams.
"A lack of appreciation for the success of artists
or for the repertoire used by them sometimes results
in requests which provoke a smile from the person to
whom they are addressed," said Mr. Arlin. "When
presenting a program at KDKA recently, Mrs. Chris-
tine Miller Clemson, who before her marriage was
one of the country's contraltos and concert singer
with an enviable record, was requested to sing the
jazz number, 'Red Hot Mamma.'
"Perhaps one of the most common requests re-
ceived is that requesting an artist to sing a particular
number. In spite of the fact that there are thousands
of songs, a good many listeners cannot quite under-
stand why the singer does not have the particular
number they request. Song pluggers are required to
sing 'Arias' and grand opera stars are requested to
sing jazz numbers by the well meaning audience. It
also happens quite often that in spite of the fact that
we receive hundreds of requests for numbers during
a particular evening some well-meaning individual is
at a loss to know why his or her particular request
was not granted."
VARIETIES IN IVORY.
"Tusks" and "teeth" are used in the trade when
tusks are alluded to, although the real grinders of
the elephant are of little or no value. The tusks
vary in size from two pounds to a hundred pounds
each. They come packed in gunnies or cases and
not infrequently are shipped loose with the address
painted on the tusk.
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS,Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
ASSOCIATION MEETS.
A dinner preceded the meeting of the National
Association of Musical Instrument and Accessory
Manufacturers' Association, New York zone, at
Mouquin's Restaurant, Sixth avenue and Twentieth
street, New York, on Wednesday of this week. There
was a big attendance, including members outside of
New York City.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO and PLAYER
HARDWARE, FELTS, TOOLS,
RUBBERIZED PLAYER FABRICS
New York, Since 1848
4th Ave. and 13th St.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
MARCH, 1925
No.
Title
Played by
1122 Peter Pan
Carl Westbank Fox-trot
1119 You and 1 (From My Girl)
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1118 Desert Isle (From My Girl)
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1115 Old Pal Nell Morrison. .A beautiful ballad
1114 My Sweetie and Me
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1113 (When You and I Were)
"Seventeen"
Paul Jones
Waltz
1111 Laff It Off (Comedy Song)
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1110 Only a Weaver of Dreams
Paul Jones
Waltz
1109 I Aint Got Nobody to Love
James Blythe Fox-trot
1108 You Know I Know
Lindsay McPhail One-step
1107 On My Ukulele
Paul Jones Comedy Fox-trot
1106 I'll See You in My Dreams
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1105 Red Red Rose
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1104 Somebody Like You
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1103 Goo-Goo-Good Night, Dear
(A Stutter Song)
Lindsay McPhail One-step
1102 Christofo Columbo
Paul Jones Comedy Fox-trot
1101 Somebody Loves Me—from
"George White's Scandals"
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1100 Lover's Waltz
Wayne Love
Waltz
1099 When the One You Love
Loves You
Dave Gwin
Waltz
1098 No Wonder (That I
Love You)
Wayne Love Fox-trot
1097 Back Where the Daffodils Grow
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1096 Insufficient Sweetie
Dave Gwin Fox-trot
1095 Some of These Days
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1094 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Art Gillham Marimba Waltz
1093 Me and the Boy Friend
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co,
721 N. Kedzie Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
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PRESTO
February 28, 1925.
RECORDS THAT PEOPLE WANT
That Is the Kind Profitable Trade Requires, the
Only Trade That Counts.
The appeal of the talking machine record and not
the price is what makes the numbers move. Of
course the sacrificial cut in price will bring the bar-
gain hunters who are always to be attracted by low
prices but in the scheme of profit-making that kind
of business does not count. It is hard to make the
phonograph owner with the appreciative taste buy
what he doesn't want, even at the lowest prices,
whereas he will come unsolicited for the number he
specially desires.
It depends on the dealer to make his record de-
partment a lively and profitable one. It largely de-
pends on looking ahead. It needs energy of course
but understanding of the possibilities of this or that
number and quickness of action is what leads to
profits and business expansion in the talking machine
record business.
When business can be achieved by the alert man
who foresees the possibilities, the complaint about
poor record sales sounds like the bleat of the lazy.
A dealer in a certain midwest city a little while
ago wrote a letter of complaint about the excessive
number of so-called unsaleable records on his shelves.
His complaint was that the new hits were produced
so rapidly, no record, no matter how good it may be
has chance for full exploiting. But the experience
of a competitor of his was the best commentary on
his attitude.
The city has about 200,000 population and at that
particular time had a local event of great interest to
people of the city at home and living elsewhere. A
new song by a local composer celebrated the event.
Bands played it and everybody sang it or tried to
sing it. Anyway it was an instantaneous hit in records
and the competitor was quick to see his chances. In
a week he sold or took orders for 8,000 records al-
though the record had only been made for delivery
late in the week of the event. Since then his sales of
the record have reached 10,000.
SPUR COMPOSERS FOR ORGAN.
Unfortunately for the reputation of the modern
organ, composers have allowed themselves to be out-
stripped by builders. Here is an enormous quantity
of potentialities in music, and so few composers have
undertaken to study them out that most of them are
still undiscovered. It is about the biggest field of the
generation, and practically untrodden. Organists and
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SHOWING Q R S ROLLS IN DALLAS
The above window of the Will A. Watkins Com-
pany, of Dallas, Texas, was put in as a tie-up with
two well known and widely advertised musical prod-
ucts. Q R S Player Rolls are very much in evi-
dence as a background for Gulbransen registering
pianos. Robert Watkin says this kind of tie-up pays.
symphony orchestra combined forces a few nights
ago at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, in an effort, accord-
ing to the prospectus, to demonstrate the resources
of the organ as a solo instrument and likewise in com-
bination with the orchestra. The demonstration was
perfectly successful as far as it went, but it proved
something else as well—namely, that there is room
for a large amount of good organ music which has
not yet been written.
The school in connection with the musical mer-
chandise department of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll
Co., Milwaukee, has materially increased the sales
of band and orchestra instruments in the store.
SLINGERLAND
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OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
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at a reasonable price.
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Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
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339 South Wabash Ave.
Chicago
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