Presto

January 8, 1927.
65
PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
can do his part to encourage them to continue the
instruments' use.
It follows that dealers handling teaching books
Orchestrations for "If You'll Come Back to Me" should compile a list of musical instrument owners.
It is probable that a big percentage of the 30,000,000
Also in Demand Is Report.
people with musical instruments in the United States
One of the most successful sellers in sheet music have lost enthusiasm in playing them. It might be
this season is "If You'll Come Back to Me," pub- interesting to find out what has become of a lot of the
lished by Mrs. F. Lamarque, 2028 St. Ann street, New instruments. It might lead also to a renewal of en-
Orleans. It is a fox-trot of the lively kind that thusiasm on the owners' part and an extended sheet
orchestra leaders everywhere are featuring. The music market for the dealers.
song "If You'll Come Back to Me" is remarkable
for its merit in both the words and music and the
BAND SPIRIT ABROAD.
fine sentiment in the lyric is appropriately treated in
The interest in the formation of bands in industrial
the melody.
plants in England was shown in the National Band
Mrs. Lamarque reports that the call is big for the Festival which was celebrated recently at the Crystal
orchestrations of the popular fox-trot, which is an
Palace, London, when one hundred and twenty-five
assurance of an increase in popularity for it. In the working men's bands competed in six sections. De-
arrangement the seductive theme is further enhanced
spite the dispute in the mining industry, there were
in its melodic beauties.
seven colliery bands, out of eighteen entries, in the
championship contest for the thousand guinea trophy.
The test piece was specially composed by Percy
Fletcher, who wrote the premier trial composition in
1913. The Australian Commonwealth sent a team of
A New Census of Musical Instrument Owners in bandsmen. The Festival usually serves as an excel-
lent opportunity for band instrument makers and
Every Community Is Suggested.
music publishers to exhibit their products, an oppor-
Music plays a far larger part in the life of the coun- tunity which is usually grasped by manufacturers.
try than even the average music dealer will claim.
OPENS IN WASHINGTON, D. C.
The musicians are more enthusiastic and so more
daring in their claims. A few years ago the motion
The Harmony Shop was recently opened at 2627
picture theater owners admitted that music was Fourteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C. This
"pretty important" when the element of attraction is the residential district of Mount Pleasant, where an
was considered. Two years ago a meeting of motion attractive display is made in a well appointed store.
picture theater owners declared that music was 40 Musical merchandise, phonographs and radio are car-
per cent of the attraction in their shows. Last week
ried.
a big movie house owner in Chicago declared he
considered music 80 per cent of the attraction. These
are facts that should hearten the sheet music dealer.
Where there is a love of music in a country there
must be people with the desire to buy the firs* essen-
tial to making the music.
A little while ago a statistical authority stated that
over 30,000,000 people in the United States played
musical instruments of one kind or another. He
Baby Face
based his estimate on the number of musical instru-
Breezing Along with the Breeze
ments sold through legitimate music dealers within a
given time. That is another heartening fact for the
For My Sweetheart
sheet music dealer.
Here I Am
The majority of musical instruments must have
Bye Bye Black Bird
music if they are used by their owners. If the
Hi Ho the Merrio
musical instrument dealers can sell millions of instru-
ments to people who play surely the sheet music man
Blame It on the Waltz
THIS FOX=TROT BIG SELLER
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1668 Angel Eyes—Fox Trot
1652 Because I Love You—Waltz
1654 Blame It On the Waltz—Waltz
1665 Bolshevik—Fox Trot
1647 Cover Me Up with Sunshine—Fox
Trot
1667 'Deed I Do—Fox Trot
1648 Don't Be Angry with Me—Fox
Trot
1669 Don't Take That Black Bottom
Away—Fox Trot
1661 Gone Again Gal—Fox Trot
1659 Here Comes Fatima—Fox Trot
1666 High Fever (Blues)
1656 I Found a Million Dollar B a b y -
Fox Trot
1662 I'd Rather Be the Girl in Your
Arms—Fox Trot
1646 I'm Gonna Park Myself in Your
Arms—Fox Trot
1655 I'm On My Way Home—Fox Trot
1645 Just a Bird's Eye View—Fox Trot
1670 Just a Little Longer—Fox Trot
1650 Keep a Little Sunshine in Your
Heart—Fox Trot
1653 Lay Me Down to Sleep in Carolina
—Fox Trot
1663 Oh! What Big Eyes You Have—
1649—She Knows Her Onions—Fox Trot
1658—Sunday—Fox Trot
1660 Sweet Thing—Fox Trot
1651 That Night in Araby—Fox Trot
1657—There's a Little White House—
1671—Thinking of You—Fox Trot
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Published by
MRS. F. LAMARQUE
3028 St. Anne Street
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Who Could Be More Wonderful Than
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My Heart Will Tell Me So
Cover Me Up with Sunshine
Don't Be Angry
Here Comes Fatima
Look Out Here Comes My Cookie
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