Presto

16'
July 30, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
SMALL GOODS, MUSIC ROLLS AND SHEET MUSIC
But the plugging or advertising of a song may
overdo itself. When a new melody has become pop-
ularly included in the public's daily whistling and
humming, the radio stations continue to drum it into
New August Bulletin of Music for Electric the ears of their audiences, merely because one or Fine List of August Recordings Include Char-
two listeners request it, until the poor old song de-
acteristic Selections, Ballads with Words and
Pianos, Suitable for Wide Range of
velops into a pest. Instead of playing a song only
the Full Course of Denishawn Dancing
Instruments Is Issued.
once in an evening, as a vaudeville house does, a
Records.
radio
station
turns
loose
the
same
song
half
a
dozen
The new bulletin of Clark Orchestra Rolls has
In the following list of Ampico recordings for
been issued by the Clark Orchestra Roll Co., De times a night. In a vaudeville theater, if one act
Kalb, 111., and the new list of the usual quality and is going to use a certain song, the other acts are August, the names of the recording artists are printed
in parentheses:
care in selection which distinguish the Clark product. forbidden to include it in their program.
Characteristic Selections—Persischer-Marsch, Per-
In the list are special issues, such as the 4X series,
sian March, Strauss-Grunfeld (Goldsand): Rosa-
adapted to Nelson-Wiggen styles 4X, 5X, 5, 6 and 7,
munde, ballet music, Schubert Godowsky (Miinz);
the xylophone specials, attractive arrangements for
Am Seegestade (By the Seashore), concert etude. Op.
65-note piano using a single stroke xylophone attach-
ment. In the organ arrangements special attention New August Bulletin for Coin-Operated Instruments 17, Smetana (Volavy); Ambling Along, Axt (Axt).
is called to Theater Specials, 786, 802, 814, 815 and
Melodious Selections—Nocturne, Op. 9, Xo. 1, B
Issued by Automatic Music Roll Co.
816, arranged in a style well adapted to accompani-
flat minor, Chopin (Dumesnil); No. 1, Valse Doliente
ment of pictures.
(Sorrowful Waltz), deFuentes Xo. 2, Porque, fth?
The Automatic Music Roll Company, Chicago, has
(Why, Eh!), Cervantes (Echaniz).
Sacred Hymns have been called for. so this month issued its new August bulletin for automatic pianos
Melodious-Characteristic Selections—No. 1, Mel-
roll No. 810 has been released and another one will and orchestrions, including rolls for pipe organ
orchestras. The rolls are made for use with the odie. Op. 1, No. 1 (Musical Thought). No. 2, Polish.
come out soon.
Idylls, Op. 24. Xo. 3 (Village Coquette), Stojowski
The Clark Orchestra rolls are made for the fol- following standard 65-note revised coin-operated elec-
(Stojowski).
lowing automatic instruments, 65-note. rewind coin tric pianos: Using 3V 2 -'mch cores: American, Carle-
Ballads (with words)—Tannhauser. O Thou Sub-
operated electric pianos, using 3^-inch cores: Amer- ton, Casino, Chicago Electric, Coinola A, C and
ican, Carleton, Casino, Coinola A and C and Cupid, Cupid, Colonial, Cote, Cremona, Eberhardt, Electra, lime Sweet Evening Star, A Hat, Wagner-Liszt (Sus-
Empress 65-note, Engelhardt, Eusymphonic, Har- kind); I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby, F major. Clay,
Colonial, Cote, Cremont, Eberhardt, Empress 65-
note, Engelhardt, Eusymphonic, Harwood, Heller, wood, Heller, Howard, Jewett, Lehr, Marquette, arranged and played by (Black); When Irish Eyes
Midget Orchestra, Monarch, National 20R, Xelson-
Are Smiling, D major, Ball (Fairchild).
Howard, Jewett, Lehr, Marquette, Midget Orches-
Recordings with Words for Singing—Russian
tra, Monarch, Western Electric A, C, X, Xelson- Wiggen Style 1-2-3-4, Originators, Operators, A, C
Lullaby, song, F major, Berlin (Carroll): Me and
Wiggen Style 1, Banj-O-Grand Style 2, Banjo X and Cupid. Presburg, Price & Teeple, Rand, Regina,
My Shadow, song, E flat, Jolson-Dreyer (Sims).
Style 3, Styles 4 and 8, Originators, National 20R, Reichard, Schaeffer, Seeburg A, B, C, E, F, K, L
Presburg, Price & Teeple, Rand, Regina, Reichard, and PGA, Starr, Tangley Calliaphone, Tangley Cal-
Recordings with Words for Singing and Dancing—
Schaeffer, Seeburg A, B, C, E, F, K, L and P. G. A., liope, Victor, Violophone, Western Electric A, C, Sometimes I'm Happy, * * 1 lit the Deck," Youmans
Starr, Tangley Calliaphone, Tangley Calliope, Victor, X and J.
(Confrey); Just Like a Butterfly, fox trot. F major,
Violophone.
Woods (Carroll); Magnolia, fox trot. G major, De-
The rolls also are suited to all styles of Seeburg
The rolls are also made for instruments using organs, orchestrions and pianos using 3-inch cores: Sylva-Brown-Hcnderson (Delcamp); For You and
Me, fox trot, E flat, Deppen (Lopez assisted); Lucky
Anderson, Ariston, Armstrong, Autoelectrola, Bil-
3-inch cores: Anderson, Ariston, Armstrong, Auto-
elecnola, Billings, Concertrola, Decker Bros., Elec- lings, Concertrola, Decker Bros., Electratone, Evans, Lindy, fox trot, G major, Baer (Lopez assisted); Red
Lips—Kiss My Blues Away, fox trot, C major
tratone, Evans, Haihes, Ideal, Wm. A. Johnson, Haines, Ideal, Wilson, Wm. A. Johnson, Kibby, King,
(Lange); Where the Wild, Wild Flowers Grow, fox
Kreiter, Netzow, Reed, Rhapsodist, Schultz, Standard
Kibby, King, Kreiter, Netzow, Reed, Rhapsodist,
trot, E major (Lange).
Schultz, Standard F and GR, Waltharn, Watson, F and GR, Waltham, Watson.
Ampico Special Dancing Lesson recordings as
W'ilson.
taught by Denishawn, the Ruth St. Denis and Ted
SELLING PORTABLES.
Shawn school of dancing, and its related arts, lessons
The portable phonograph season is in full swing in
Nos. 1 to 10.
Seattle, but it fell to the lot of the Liberty Music
Shop to capitalize fully on it by the launching of a
FREE ORGAN LESSONS.
Too Much Repetition Over Radio and Other Ways recent campaign. Newspaper ads and direct mail
adds were sent out to the large mailing list announc-
Class lessons in pipe organ playing given free to
Harmful, Say Publishers.
ing the rental of any.
high school students of Medina, Ohio, constitute a
The publishers of popular music have a difficult
novelty in public school music instruction. These
time striking a happy medium between too little ad-
lessons
are given to young people advanced in piano
vertising and too much advertising of their wares,
and in high school. Private lessons, for which the
says Quin A. Ryan, the WGX announcer, in his
pupils pay a fee, are given after school hours. Free
column, "Inside the Loud Speaker," in the Chicago
practice is offered to students for one period, forty
Tribune.
minutes a day. This instruction is made possible by
A new song needs "plugging" on the radio just as
"Carolina" (I'm Coining Back to You.) "Mem-
the installation of a municipal organ in the high
it needs introduction by the movie organists, the big-
ories Dream," "Supposing," "Yes, Dreams Come
school.
ger jazz bands and the vaudeville headliuers. So
True," "The Man That Catches Me Must Have
the music publishers are constantly calling on the
the Good Hard Cash," "Your Arms Are Home
CONNS FOR KANSAS BANDS.
Sweet Home to Me," Etc.
radio stations to have this or that new melody broad-
The Mayfield Music Company, Hutchinsou, Kans.,
cast, in the effort to popularize it. The lads, known
Exploited nationally by hundreds of the loading stars
in all parts of U. S. A. Special prices for a STARTER
which handles the Kimball as its leading piano, is
as "song pluggers," hired by the publishers, who
to DEALERS, 10c each.
(Unsold copies can he
doing a good band instrument trade. It recently out-
exchanged.) Sell for 25 to 35c net. Biff profit, no risk.
sing at the band concerts, the ball parks and the
ORDER NOW—Offer good for a limited time only.
fitted several brass bands in that vicinity with the
music counters, were the main part of the early
C. G. Conn line of instruments.
J. S. Unger Music House, Pub., Reading, Penn.
stations' entertainment, and they still give their serv-
ices gratis to many stations every evening.
CLARK ORCHESTRA ROLLS
NEW AMP1C0 ROLLS
MUSIC FOR ELECTRIC PIANOS
OVERDOING SONG ADVERTISING
SONGS THAT LIVE AND SELL
CONTINUOUSLY
RINTERS
Qest
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