June 27, 1925.
25
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
NEW REMICK FAVORITES
Big Sales of Old Successful Song Numbers
Published by J. H. Remick & Co. Being
Duplicated by Recent Hits.
The recent romantic songs in the list of J. H.
Remick & Co., are repeating the successes of former
publications of that nature from the company. And
in every case it is merit in the songs, not the repu-
tation of the company for producing hits, that com-
mands the favor of the song buyers. The new
favorites show a novelty in the theme of the lyrics
and a freshness in the music that command the
attention of the song loving public.
So it does not surprise the Remick representatives
everywhere that the big favor for "1 Wonder Who's
Dancing with You Tonight," "There's Yes, Yes in
Your Eyes," "If You'll Come Back," or other great
profit-makers for the dealers is repeated in "Take Me
Back to Your Heart," "Somebody Like You," "Just
Lonesome," and others in the later presentations of
the progressive publishing house.
The late songs named are big sellers, but there are
others in the list which interest the song buyers to
a considerable degree. "Don't Bring Lulu" is bring-
ing in the profits for the dealers all over the country
and "Isn't She the Sweetest Thing," "I Can't Stop
Babying You," "Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little
Me," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Me and My Boy
Friend" are all about equal in the sharing of the song
buyers' favor.
SUIT OVER RIGHT TO "EILI, EILI"
Judge Knox, in Federal Court, New York, Rules
Against Jacob Koppel Sindelr.
Jacob Koppel Sindelr has lost a suit in a New
York court to establish himself as author of the
famous Jewish lament, "Eili, Eili." Federal Judge
Knox decided he had not proved his case against
a publisher charging infringement of copyright.
The plaintiff averred that in 1896 when he was
choirmaster at the old Windsor theater in New
York, the need developed in the drama, "Brocha,"
REMICK SONG HITS
I Can't Stop Babying You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Swanee Butterfly
By the Light of the Stars
Old Pal
Somebody Like You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
Don't Bring Lulu
Take Me Back to Your Heart
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
(The Jewish king of Poland) for a lament for the
part of a Jewish girl, who was crucified because of
her faith. He immediately went home and in the
I'salms found the words:
"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me."
This furnished the inspiration for "Eili, Eili."
Sindelr set forth that the song was worth at least
$500,000 and that he had received only $76.
SHEET MUSIC PUBLICITY
Good Will and Confidence of Teachers and
Music Buying Public Generally Consid-
ered Best Form of Advertising.
Sheet music advertising in all its forms is a mat-
ter that interests the earnest sheet music dealer. How
to find the sheet music customer and make him or
her a continuous one requires special forms of
advertising that differ in a great many ways from
ordinary lines of publicity. The aim and end of the
advertising by sheet music dealers is to create the
greatest number of satisfied customers, which are
the best advertisements, as Harry B. Crosby pointed
out to the convention of sheet music dealers in New
York recently.
Mr. Crosby asserted that the strongest form of
advertising for the publisher and the retailer is the
good will and confidence of the teachers and the
buyers included in the great mass of prospects—the
public. "It therefore follows that whatever form of
publicity concentrates on this end is good," he said.
"The publisher's advertising is two-fold; he is in duty
bound to create a demand for his music and to secure
that demand by means which will absolutely protect
his agents from any encroachment on their particular
territory."
Speaking from the publishers' viewpoint he con-
tinued: "It seems obvious to me that the on-sale
department, supplemented by the trade literature
which the publishers supply free, circulars, thematics
and other catalogs, especially those of an explana-
tory form, making the selection of music easy for
both music clerk and customer, is the most important
form of advertising. The professional department
should also be considered very seriously.
"On account of the extremely satisfactory condi-
tions existing in our industry, it is imperative for
the producer so to regulate his advertising as to cre-
ate good will and confidence between dealer and pub-
lisher and between retail dealer and teacher. The big
problem confronting the music publisher is to create
a demand throughout the country for his music,
using such methods as will protect the dealers in
certain territories against any encroachment on their
rights, and will result in increased trade for the
dealers through whom the final sales are made. All
advertising, of no matter what form, will prove
unsatisfactory unless it is based on this aim, to build
up permanent trade, sincere good will, and co-opera-
tion between dealer and publisher."
"ILLINOIS" NOW OFFICIAL.
As the clock reached midnight June 19, the Illinois
legislature at Springfield, 111., took a few minutes off
to celebrate the passage of a bill which makes "Illi-
nois" the official song of the state. When the vote
of 92 to 0 was announced the entire membership
broke into enthusiastic song despite the fact that they
worked fourteen hours.
A FEW NOTES.
"Piano Music, Its Composers and Characteristics,"
by Clarence G. Hamilton, A. M., professor of music
at Wellesley College, is the latest publication of
Oliver Ditson Co.. Boston!
The San Jose, Cal., Exchange Club recently en-
joyed a musical program when W. R. Lawrence,
manager of the San Jose branch of Wiley B. Allen
Co., and Joe McKiernan played a number of their
own compositions in a piano duet, using two pianos.
The artists collaborate in song writing.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
Sheet Music Publishers' Association of the
United States and National Association of
Sheet Music Dealers Hold Elections.
Following are the new officers of the National
Association of Sheet Music Dealers who were re-
elected at the convention in the Hotel McAlpin, New
York, last week: E. Grant Ege, president; Paul A.
Schmitt, vice-president; Thomas Donlan, secretary-
treasurer.
The following comprise the new board of directors:
W. M. Gamble, Gamble Hinged Music Co., Chicago;
J. Elmer Harvey, Grinnell Brothers, Detroit; C. W.
Homcycr, Charles W. Homeyer Music Co., Boston;
E. P. Little, Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco;
Holmes Maddock, Whaley Royce & Co., Ltd.,
Toronto, Can.; W. H. Levis, Levis Music Co.,
Rochester, N Y.; Murt Murray, of Murray-Vollmar
Music Co., St. Louis; J. M. Priaul, Chas. H. Ditson
Co., New York; S. Ernest Philpitt. S. Ernest Phil-
pitt & Son, Miami, Fla.; J. Edgar Robinson. Robin-
son's Music House, Washington, D. C ; Laurence
Sandquist, W. J. Dyer & Bro., St. Paul. Minn.; R. T.
Stanton. Lyon & Healy, Chicago; W. H. Witt,
W. H. Witt Music Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Harry
Neville of the Neville Music Co.
Walter Fischer was elected president of the Sheet
Music Publishers' Association at the convention at
the Belmont Hotel, New York, last week. W. Deane
Preston was elected vice-president, Harold Flammer
re-elected treasurer, and M. E. Tompkins elected
secretary.
The following comprise the new board of directors:
E. F. Bittner, Walter Coghill, George Fischer, H.
W. Gray, Michael Keane, Edward B. Marks, Theo-
dore Presser, J..T. Roach, Gustave Schirmer, Isadore
Witmark and C. A. Woodman.
OPENS WITH MUSIC.
The tone of a safe, not the combination, will de-
termine the manner of opening, if the invention of a
Birmingham, England, inventor is generally adopted.
A new safe lock recently exhibited in the English
city opens in response to a particular arrangement of
musical tones instead of by working a numerical
combination. So that, if the cracksman who attempts
to open a safe door sings a G sharp when the lock
has been attuned to G Hat he will be thwarted. Safe-
blowers of the future, instead of carrying a kit of
jimmies and "nitro," will have to have a set of tuning
forks.
CHOICE IN AERIALS.
Of all aerials, the loop type picks up the least
energy. A one wire indoor aerial will pick up more
energy, while the outdoor aerial gathers more than
either. The longer the outdoor aerial, the more en-
ergy it will gather, but long aerials also pick up other
disturbances that often hinder clear reception. When
directional loops are used, care must be taken that
so far as possible no magnetic materials are situated
near it. Radiators, metal stairway, steel building
framework, and the like have a detrimental effect on
directional qualities.
DENVER FIRM TO BROADCAST.
A novel feature in the new building being erected
on property at 1517 to 1523 Stout street. Denver,
Colo., for the Darrow Music Co., will be a broad-
casting studio equipped with the most approved
apparatus for the work. This will be used in con-
janction with. a recital hall with stage built with
special attention to acoustics.
No piano salesman ever "knocked" himself into
popularity or any other special success.
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