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Issue: 1927 2113

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January 29, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
30024 Au Matin, Op. 83—key E flat, Godard
(Adler).
30250 Swing Song, L'Escarpolette—key A, Barnes
(Frohm).
March (instrumental):
30175 National Emblem March—key C, Bagley
(Stevens).
30201 Repasz Band, march—key C, Sweeley
(Lutter).
The best selling popular numbers in the Gulbran-
sen catalog are: Black Bottom, Do-Do-Do, Oh, Kay,
Hugh, Hugh Up in the Hills, If All the Stars Were
Pretty Babies, Je T'Aime Means, I Love You, Lay
Me Down to Sleep in Carolina, The Little White
House, Moonlight on the Ganges and When I Am in
Your Arms.
The best selling Fireside Songs in the catalog are:
A Dream, Annie Laurie, A Perfect Day, Ben Bolt,
Carry Me Back 'to Old Virginny, Drink to Me Only
with Thine Eyes, Home, Sweet Home, In the Gloam-
ing, Old Black Toe, and The Sweetest Story Ever
Told.
NEW QULBRANSEN ROLLS
Fine List for February Comprises Dances,
Ballads, Negro Spirituals, Marches and
Salon Instrumental Music.
GOOD ADVERTISING PAYS
Extract from a Letter Tells of the Effect of Trade
Paper Publicity That Pulls.
It isn't often that Presto-Times draws special at-
tention to the work this paper is doing for the trade.
Following is an indorsement of trade paper adver-
tising which came this week from one of the pro-
gressive manufacturers of novelties and scarfs:
"Your advertising has been a wonderful help to us.
We have received numbers of inquiries and have
opened quite a few accounts from the inquiries re-
ceived. We have also received inquiries from piano'
travelers asking about the selling of our line, and
any publicity that you can give us will be very much
aopreciated. ?--->d in time to come, we hcpe to be in
por.';!,,.i to do more advertising in your paper."
The February bulletin of new Gulbransen music
rolls has been issued by the Gulbransen Music Roll
Corporation, 599 Eleventh avenue, New York. The
name of the recording artist is printed in parentheses:
Dance (word rolls) are as follows:
20251 All I Want Is You, fox trot—key B flat,
Akst (Nolan).
20245 Here or There as Long As I'm with You.
foxtrot—key E flat, Davis-Greer (Wehrlen).
20244 He's the Last Word, fox trot—Key F, Don-
aldson (Stevens).
20243 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the Bees How
The sheet music department of Grant's, Toledo, O. T
I Love You, fox trot—key G, Brown-Friend (Rich-
keeps a list of "This Week's Best Sellers" in a promi-
mund).
nent position in the department.
20246 Love's Melody, waltz—key E Hat, Rathje-
PLAN CONVENTION CONTEST.
Stevens-Osborn (Nolan).
20250 Moonbeam! Kiss Her for Me, fox t r o t -
A leading feature of the convention of the Western
key F, Woods (Wehrlen).
Music Trade Association in San Francisco, in July,
NEW SPARKLING SONGS FOR YOUR
20242 One Alone, "The Desert Song." fox t r o t - will be the Pacific Coast High School Band contest,
COUNTERS
the details of which are being arranged by the fol-
key A flat, Romberg (Stevens).
20249 Sam, the Old Accordion Man, fox trot— lowing committee: E. J. Delano, Sherman, Clay &
Your Arms Are Home Sweet Home to Me.
Co., San Francisco, chairman; Daniel F. Miller, Conn
Yes, Dreams Come True. (Waltz Ballad.)
key G, Donaldson (Wehrlen).
We Don't Know Where We're Going:. (Comic.)
20247 Tell Me Tonight, fox trot—key G, Connor- San Francisco Co., San Francisco; Henry Grobe, San
memories
Dream. (Very Flensing; Ballad.)
Francisco; J. H. Lee, Oakland; Dewey Waters, San
Little (Osborne).
My Heart Calls, My I,ove, Come Back, Be True.
Francisco;
Earl
Stone,
Los
Angeles;
H.
P.
Mulhol-
20248 You Know—I Know Everything's made for
The Man That Catcher Me MiiKt Have the Good
land, Seattle, Wash., and F. A. Sieberling, Port-
Hard Cash. (Now All the Rage.)
Love, fox trot—key E flat. Johnson-Tobias-Sherman
land, Ore.
(Osborne).
Our catalog Is coming to the front from all point*
of U. S. A. Write for our special trade rates.
Standard and popular ballads (word rolls):
2O109 Silver Threads Among the Gold, key B flat.
ARMY BANDS BILL. .
J. S. UNGER MUSIC HOUSE, Music Pub.
Danks (Jones).
The new Army Bands Bill now before the House
Reading, Pa.
20254 My Laddie, a Scotch love song—key E flat, would restore the status of the rank and tile and
Thayer (Haase).
band leaders of both Army and National Guard
20255 Rags, popular ballad—key E flat, Silver- bands to that which existed prior to the passage of
Fain-Richman (Jones).
the National Defense Act of 1916. Walter Damrosch,
Negro Spirituals (word rolls) :
conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra,
20252 Steal Away—key E flat (Haase).
and Lieut. Commander John Philip Sousa, endorse
20253 All God's Chillun Got Shoes—key A flat,
the bill.
(Haase).
Salon (instrumental) :
IMPORTANT MEETING ANNOUNCED.
The W T ood Industries Division of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers will hold a session
on February 25 at Room 2 of the society's building at
29 West Thirty-ninth street, New York, according to
an announcement made last week by B. H. Bilhuber
of Steinway & Sons, New York, who is secretary of
the division. Many interesting papers will be read.
REMICK SONG HITS
Baby Face
Breezing Along with the Breeze
For My Sweetheart
Here I Am
Bye Bye Black Bird
Hi Ho the Merrio
Blame It on the Waltz
Who Could Be More Wonderful Than
You
My Heart Will Tell Me So
Cover Me Up with Sunshine
Don't Be Angry
Here Comes Fatima
Look Out Here Comes My Cookie
Tami Ami Trail
I'm in Love with You That's Why
A FIDDLE FOR CAR FARE.
The penniless musician who last Wednesday left
his violin with an operator of a Detroit United Rail-
way mo-torbus, as security for a loan of 75 cents with
which to pay his fare, may reclaim his instrument by
calling at the Ferndale, Mich., police station, properly
identifying it and refunding the loan, the police have
announced.
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Diplomas awarded and positions secured. Pri-
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January 29, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
7c5—JANUARY RELEASES—75c
1694 A Little Music in the Moonlight
—Fox Trot
1673 Candy Lips—Fox Trot
1686 Don't Forget the Pal You Left at
Home—Marimba Waltz
1683 Elsie Schultz-En-Heim—Fox Trot
1682 Give Me a Ukulele—Fox Trot
1661 Gone Again Gal—Fox Trot
1685 Knows His Groceries—Fox Trot
1690 Hello, Swanee! Hello!—Fox Trot
1696 How Could Red Riding Hood?—
Fox Trot
1695 I Don't Mind Being Alone—Fox
Trot
1691 If Tears Could Bring You Back to
Me—Fox Trot
1684 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the
Bees—Fox Trot
1687 It Made You Happy When You
Made Me Cry—Fox Trot
1674 I've Got the Girl—Fox Trot
1689 My Baby Knows How—Fox Trot
1693 My Girl Has Eye Trouble—Fox
Trot
1688 Oh, How She Could Play a Uku-
lele—Fox Trot
1675 Original Black Bottom D a n c e
1679 She's Still My Baby—Fox Trot
1672 Sidewalk Blues
1678 Susie's Feller—Fox Trot
1680 Tonight You Belong to Me—Waltz
1676 Trail of Dreams—Waltz
1697 When I First Met Mary—Fox Trot
1681 When I'm in Your Arms—Fox
Trot
1682 Within the Prison of My Dreams
—Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
ers best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedzie Are., CHICAGO, ILL.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
trot, vocal chorus. Champion Melody Boys, and Have
You Forgotten, fox trot, vocal chorus, Fred Sharp's.
Dixie Players.
Lonely Eyes, fox trot, vocal chorus, Joe Candullo's
Capitol Roll & Record Co., Chicago, Issues Its Orchestra, and Clap Yo' Hands (from "Oh Kay!"),
fox trot, vocal chorus, Champion Melody Boys.
Bulletins of February Presentations
Shanghai, Oriental fox trot, vocal chorus, Dick
Beeson and His Orchestra, and Sweeter Than You
for Various Instruments.
(from "Twinkle-Twinkle") (black bottom rhythm),
The new electric piano rolls for February are in- fox trot, vocal chorus, Fred Rich and His Times
Square Orchestra.
cluded in a new list issued this week by the Capitol
Mother of the Volga (I Hear You Calling Me),
Roll & Record Co., 721 Kedzie avenue, Chicago. The (introducing black bottom rhythm), fox trot, vocal
new electric rolls are suited for Coinola, Style "A" chorus, Dick Beeson and His Orchestra; I Love to
and "C," Operators' Piano Co., Style "A," "C" and Baby You, fox trot, vocal chorus, Fred Rich and His
Cupid, Seeburg Style "A." "B ? " "C," "D," "E," Times Square Orchestra.
Champion Popular Vocal—Where Do You Work-a
"F," and "K"; Chicago Electric, Cremona, Howard,
Tangley Calliope and Calliaphone, Nelson Wiggens John?, Jack Kaufman, and I Can't Get Over a Girl
Like You (Loving a Boy Like Me), Jack Lane and
Banjo Grand, Styles 1-2-3-4; Western Electric Pianos,
His Uke.
Styles A, C, X, J, and all styles of 65-note rewind
Hello, Swanee, Hello, and Jersey Walk (from
Electric Pianos.
"Honeymoon Lane"), Jack Lane and His Uke.
Five new rolls include the latest popular hits in
Just a Melody, and When You're Far Away, Ver-
songs and dances, reviews and blues. A good sample
non Dalhart and Carson Robison.
of the new presentations is roll No. 2050, a review of
Champion Specials—The Death of John Henry
(old time vocal), and Little Brown Jug (old time
popular hits which contains:
vocal), Herb Jennings.
Because I Love You, waltz; Moonlight on the
Amazing Grace (negro sermon with singing), and
Ganges, fox trot; Sunday, fox trot; Just a Little
I'm Going to Heaven If It Takes My Life (negro
Longer, fox trot; Thinking of You, fox trot; Just a
sermon with singing), Rev. J. M. Gates and His
Bird's Eye View, fox trot; Oh What Big Eyes You
Congregation.
Have, fox trot; There's a Little White House, fox
trot; Hi Ho the Merrio, fox trot; Barcelona, tango.
The Capitol Roll & Record Co. also has issued its
February bulletin of music for Coinola electric pianos,
styles D, C-2, X, AF, AX, CF, CB, K, and all other
Distinguished Physician and U. S. Senator Tells How
Orchestrion combinations.
Music Adds to Health and Happiness.
Rolls No. 0818, 0819 and 082O are collections of the
Royal S. Copeland, M. D., United States senator
very latest dance hits that patrons of electric pianos
from New York, in a Chicago Herald and Examiner
demand. The contents of No. 0820 show the char-
acter of the lively music in the others: A Little article says there can be no doubt that education in
Music in the Moonlight, fox trot; Trying to Forget, music adds to the happiness and general welfare of
the individual. The rhythm and the pleasurable
fox trot; Oh How She Could Play a Uke, fox trot;
Trail of Dreams, waltz; If Tears Could Bring You emotions excited by inspiring music have their effect
Back to Me, fox trot; Within the Prison of My upon the health. They lead to increased action of the
Dreams, fox trot; I Don't Mind Being Alone, fox heart and deeper breathing. In consequence, music
trot; Hello Swanee! Hello^ fox trot; My Girl Has improves the health and vigor of the indivklual.
Eye Trouble, fox trot; How Could Red Riding Hood,
Improved health comes not alone from the increase
fox trot.
of lung capacity from the blowing of a cornet or
Roll G433 1 is a collection of the best current hits. other wind instrument. It is a general sense of well-
The roll is suited for Seeburg styles "G," " F T " and being and the stimulation associated with the enjoy-
"KT" Orchestrion, styles "P," "Q," and "W',' Motion ment of music which have to do with the value of
Picture Players, Nelson-Wiggen styles 4X, 5X, and
5, 6, 7, and Western Electric Pianos, styles O, G-
The following tunes are comprised in the roll:
AMATEUR STRING QUARTETTE.
I Don't Mind Being Alone, fox trot; A Little Music
Ach wie lofily, ach wie nett
in the Moonlight,' fox trot; I'm Telling the Birds
1st doch so a Shtring Quartette.
(Telling the Bees), fox trot; Susie's Feller, fox trot;
Wenn die Members wo es plahn
It Made You Happy When; You Made Me Cry, fox
Plenty von dem Job vorsteh'n
trot; Hello Swanee! Hello, ifox trot; Trying to For-
Und die Vier in Harmony
Shtricktly counteh One Two Three.
get, fox trot; My Baby Knows How, fox trot; When
But wenn Willie mit der Bratsche*
I'm in Your Arms, fox trot; How Could Red Riding
Raceh muss urn aufzucatscheh,
Hood, fox trot.
Und der passionvolle Cellist
Two good Mexican rolls are the latest additions to
Halb a Dutzent Bars zu schnell ist,
the Foreign List of electric piano rolls for Coinola,
Actet solche Moosick sehr
style "A" and "C," Operators' Piano Co., style "A,"
Uncongenial auf's Gehor.
"C'\ and Cupid, Seeburg, s*yle "A." "B," "C," "D,"
"E," "F," and "K," Chicago Electric, Cremona, How-
Ach, was mtissen Brahms und Haydn
ard, Tangley Calliope and Calliaphone, Nelson Wig-
Alles suffern und erleiden!
Well, der lucky Ludewig
gen Banjo Grand, styles 1-2-3-4; Western Electric
Der ist deaf und hort es nich'
Pianos, styles A, C, X, J, and all styles of 65-note
Und, of course, es tut die modern
remind Electric Pianos.
Moosick-scribblers auch net boddern—
Well a guy a Flyshpeck plaht
Steat von a godettet eight'
Macht's bei dem Stuff noddings aus.
In der Wash konimt alles 'raus.
Another Fine List of Dance Music and Popular
Ach wie loffly, ach wie nett
Vocal Selections Out This Week.
1st doch so a Shtring Quartette.
Schubert wird getackelt. Grieg
The new Champion Record of the Starr Piano Co.,
Und Tschaikowsky die geh'n big.
Richmond, Ind., an electrically recorded line, is jus-
Alles soundet wunderschon
tifying its name in musical results and sales. This
Zu den Fellers die es plahn,
week another list of dance hits in the Champion line
But was ich unjoy am meisten
is announced, which includes the following:
Sein die Rests. .Die sein arn nic(e)sten.
Champion Dance Hits—Mother Dear, fox trot,
K. M. S.—in Chicago Evening Post.
vocal chorus, and It Tears Could Bring You Back to
Me, fox trot, vocal chorus, Champion Dance Kings.
*Rratsche: The viola.
Who'll Be the One, fox trot, vocal chorus, Fred
Sharp's Dixie Players, and The Riff Song, (from
In the new list of music of Carl Fischer, Inc., New
"The Desert Song"), fox trot, vocal chorus, Cham-
York, is the series of eight books of individual and
pion Melody Boys.
class violin instruction by Leopold Auer.
Here or There (As Long as I'm With You), fox
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