March 5, 1927.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
75c—FEBRUARY 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 H o w 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 I t 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 H a s 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
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TOWN BAND CIVIC AID
Music Dealers Should Take Advantage of
Spread of the Band Spirit by Leading
the Movement.
This is the day of the boosting chambers of com-
merce, when all the live people in the towns and up-
and-coming villages are enlisted under the banner of
progress. And the wideawake citizens are mindful of
the signs of municipal effort and the manifestations
of growth in civic pride. Printed propaganda is one
form of attraction to new residents, but its potency
for results depends on the extent of its plausibility.
Another form of attraction consists in the civic
advantages, the cultural phases and the elements for
a pleasurable existence.
Thus music is conceded to be a necessity in any
community and the brass band the most effective
form of music for the purposes for which chambers
of commerce are organized. For that reason the
musical band is considered the most convincing
sign of progress. Without a brass band a town is
dead and cannot be aroused to the kind of effort that
creates lasting progress. The call of the band, the
boom of the drum, the shrill of the cornet, when the
rally is on, are as necessary as the church bell to the
worshipful citizenry.
Every week the list of new bands grows and it
would be impossible to estimate the aggregate good
accomplished by the new musical organizations. But
it is easy to realize the stupendous effects on trade
by the stimulation of the municipal bands. The
music dealer anywhere can compare the difference
in degree of civic animation between the town with
the band and the one without one. And he can
see the possibilities of betterment in his own busi-
ness by the help of a town band.
Promoting the band spirit is the music dealers'
job and the extent of his enthusiasm in fostering the
band spirit and practically aiding in the formation of
band organizations, is the measure of his own energy
and ambition. Spring elections in many places are
occasions requiring the attention of the music dealers.
Many towns will vote on a tax to support a munici-
pal band.
ing a title said to be in imitation of a song in his
show called "When Men Wore Beards and Women
Wore Clothes." The song in question is entitled
"When Men Wore Beards and Women Grew Old."
The Forbes-Meagher Music Co., Madison, Wis.,
recently celebrated the tenth.anniversary of its found-
ing. The company has developed a big business in
its fine store at 27 West Main street.
NEW ELECTRIC PIANO MUSIC
Fine List of Dances and Other Music for Rewind-
Coin-Operated Pianos and Orchestrions.
The Automatic Music Roll Company, Chicago, has
issued its March lists of music for coin-operated in-
struments of the standard 65-note rewind character.
The rolls are available for the following instruments
using three and a half-inch cores:
American, Carleton, Casino, Chicago Electric,
Coinola A, C, and Cupid, Colonial, Cote Cremona,
Eberhardt, Electra, Empress 65-note, Engelhardt,
'Eusymphonic, Harwood, Heller, Howard, Jewett,
Lehr, Marquette, Midget Orchestra, Monarch, Na-
tional 20R, Nelson-Wiggen Style 1-2-3-4, Originators,
Operators A, C and Cupid, Presburg, Price & Teeple,
Rand, Regina, Reichard, Schaeffer, Seeburg A, B, C,
E, F, K, L & PGA, Starr, Tangley Calliaphone,
Tangley Calliope, Victor, Violophone, Western Elec-
tric A, C, X and J.
The rolls are also available for all styles of See-
burg organs, orchestrions and pianos using 3-inch
cores, and the following: Anderson, Ariston, Arm-
strong, Autoelectrola, Billings, Concertrola, Decker
Bros., Electratone, Evans, Haines, Ideal, Wilson,
Wm. A. Johnson, Kibby, King, Kreiter, Netzow,
Reed, Rhapsodist, Schultz, Standard F and GR, Wal-
tham, Watson.
The rolls comprise all the latest dances and many
made widely known by radio. Song hits, marches
and ballads complete a fine list. The new foreign
rolls include Polish, Bohemian, Spanish, Italian and
border Mexican. The March list also includes a fine
selection of hand-played organ rolls.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
At least one American composition is to appear on
every program of the new Beethoven Symphony Or-
chestra recently organized in New York.
The British war office has at last made the won-
derful "discovery" that organized singing "helps men
to march well, even when fatigued," and from now
onwards, therefore, singing is 'to be officially encour-
aged.
John V. Eppel, composer of the "Missouri Waltz,"
is the new director of the municipal band in Mason
City, la.
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce has
started a campaign to discourage the publishing of
songs with suggestive or indecent words.
The Voreen Music Publishers is a new music pub-
lishing firm in Wichita, Kans.
A Steinway Duo Art furnished by Denton, Cottier
& Daniel, Buffalo, provided v the accompaniment for
Geoffrey O'Hara recently when he sang his own
song, "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride," before
350 members of the Greater Buffalo Advertising Club.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. has opened a new
branch at 407 West Fourth street, Santa Ana, Cal.,
under the management of H. I. Searles, who has been
connected with the organization for some time.
C. C. Mayer & Co., Minneapolis, Minn., recently
opened a branch at 904 Hennepin avenue, in the
same city with J. W. Haggerty in charge. W. P.
Haines, M. Schulz and Sohmer pianos are handled.
Thomas W. Ball, producer of the musical comedy,
"Sweet Lady," obtained a temporary injunction in
the New York Supreme Court restraining John Henry
Mears, producer of "Judy," from using a song hav-
AN EASY SELLING LINE.
The Period Drapery & Manfacturing Co., New
Albany, Ind., is presenting a line of goods that are
highly desirable all the year round. New piano
customers and people already owning pianos are
easily interested in the piano scarfs, bench cushions
and covers in the most desirable fabrics, patterns and
colorings. The line also includes piano throws, bags
for small instruments and upholstered bench tops.
Illustrated folders showing the artistic character of
the line are available.
EFFICIENT REPAIRMEN.
The Piano Repair Shop, 339 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, has a force of efficient workmen to attend
to the piano and phonograph repairing and rebuild-
ing jobs sent in by dealers. All requirements of cus-
tomers are responded to; player actions installed,
actions and keys repaired, and instruments remod-
eled and refinished in a thorough and workmanlike
manner. All work is guaranteed.
WILLIAM HENRY HILL DIES.
William Henry Hill, head of the famous London
firm of violin makers, died recently. The firm num-
bered Pepys among its earlier clients, and has occu-
pied the same premises from that day to this. Like
both of his surviving brothers, Mr. Hill was a highly
cultivated musician, ai&jL part author of a standard
work on Stradivari.
LICENSES FOR RADIO FANS.
Radio listeners are licensed in England, paying a
fee of ten shillings annually. Nearly $3,750,000 is
available for 1927 on. a basis of 2,097,000 listeners.
Of this money the Post Office will receive about
$1,125,000 or one shilling and three pence on each
license. The remaining eight shillings and nine pence
goes to the new British Broadcasting Corporation.
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