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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
December 31, 1927
"Golden Dawn," ballad, fox trot, G major (Carroll);
209531-E, Among My Souvenirs, song, E flat, Leslie-
Nicholls (Fairchild).
Recordings (with words for singing and dancing)
Ampico Corporation, New York, Issues Varied —209441-E, I Told Them All About You, fox trot, E
List of Music and Songs of Great
major, Friend (Lopez); 209451-E, Dear, On a Night
Like This, fox trot, G major, Caesar-Conrad (Banta);
Attractiveness.
209461-E, There Must Be Somebody Else, fox trot,
The following rolls are included in the Ampico Bul- C major, Gottler-Clare-PinKard (Banta); 209471-E,
letin for January. The names of the recording artists Hhe Best Things in Life Are Free, "Good News,"
arep rinted in parentheses:
fox trot, C major. DeSylva-Brown-Henderson (Car-
Brilliant Selection—68463-H, Sonata, Op. 57, F roll); 209481-E, My Blue Heaven, fox trot, Eb, Whit-
minor "Appassionata" third movement-Allegro ma ing-Donaldson (Reichenthal); 209491-E, Baby Your
non troppo Beethoven (Levitzki).
Mother, fox trot, B flat, Donnelly-Morse-Burke,
Characteristic Selections—68473-H, Suite Espag- (Reichenthal); 209511-E, My Heart Stool Still, "A
nole (Spanish Suite), No. 3, Sevilla Albeniz Lhe- Connecticut Yankee," fox trot, F major, Hart-Rodg-
vinne) ; 63493-G, Valse Mazurka and Oriental Dance : ers, (Rodgers); 209521-E, Thinking of You, "The 5
O'Clock Girl," fox trot, E flat (Lopez); 209541-E,
with improvisations, Loth (Loth).
Melodious Selections—68483-G, Fifth Nocturne, Op. Worryin', waltz, E flat, Fairman (Shipman).
52, A flat, Leybach (Suskind); 68503-G, Tender Mem-
ories, Rapee-Axt (Black); 68511-F, Valse Charmante,
ARTHUR A. TROSTLER PROMOTED.
Chenoweth (Chenoweth); 68523-H, Ziegfeld Follies,
Arthur
A. Trostler, pioneer in the merchandising
Selections No. 2: (1) Shaking the Blues Away; (2)
Ooh, Maybe It's You; (3) Jingle Jungle Dance; (4) of musical merchandise and well-known throughout
Rainbow of Girls, Berlin (Fairchild and Rainger; the radio trade in the United States, has been desig-
68533-H, Valse, suite for two pianos, Op. 15, C major nated as assistant to the chairman of Freed-Eise-
mann Radio Corporation. Mr. Trostler thus becomes
(first piano part only), Arensky (Cooper).
the executive aid to Alex. Eisemann in the big Brook-
Ballads (with words)— 2221-F, Madame Butterfly
lyn factory of the Freed-Eisemann company, but
(Un bel di Vedremo), "One Fine Day," ballad, G
from time to time Mr. Trostler will participate in
flat, Puccini (Lefevre); 2233-F, Massa's in de Col',
merchandising meetings in various parts of the
Col' Ground, D major, Foster (Fairchild); 2243-F,
country.
Charmaine! F major, Rapee-Pollack (Delcamp).
Recordings (with words, for singing)—209423-F,
TO HEAD N E W FIRM.
The Song Is Ended, Song, E flat, Berlin (Delcamp);
209433-E, Did You Mean It? Ballad, fox trot, F major,
Arthur Longbrake, song writer, will be general
Baker-Silvers-Lyman (Delcamp); 209503-F, Dawn, manager of a new song publishing company, cap-
italized at $10,000, to be headed by Gus Sun, Spring-
field, Ohio, show owner.
JANUARY AMPICO ROLLS
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
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JAZZ. WHAT IS IT?
They say we've invented some music, our own.
I've heard and I'm sorry I cannot condone.
Once I loved music, but if Jazz is the best,
Out where they build boilers for me will be rest.
They take a great melody, and chop it up fine,
Then beat it and bang it, each beautiful line.
So they jangle its tones, cans falling pell mell,
With a moaning and groaning, a shrieking death
knell.
Native American they say, and I'm blamed,
If that is American then I am ashamed;
If that is the best our composers can do
We should throw up our hands and admit we are
through.
You hear them play them, a dozen or more,
And every one played is the same o'er and o'er.
You cannot distinguish one tune from the other,
It's noise, and more noise, One just like the other.
No sweet tender notes, no soul stirring strain;
Just a wrangle and jangle, again and again.
Till it seems the ear will split from the noise
And the weird doleful sounds the tormentor employs.
The Last Rose of Summer a melody has,
What would it sound like to sing it in Jazz?
Or a mother who sings her baby to sleep,
If she tried it in Jazz, it would make the kid weep.
Where did we get it? Well, now to begin,
The Devil one day, had a hole to dig in,
He found some tin cans, some glass and some yells,
Some shrieks and some moans, and some rusty cow
bells.
He said "This is awful, I can't stand the razz,
A man's character is the basis of his credit, He pitched it up here, and we called it Jazz.
usually in a piano sale and not his financial bal- It's music gone bughouse, on the country a blot;
ance sheet. In fact, increased time to pay for a It's rank and it's rotten, to hell with the lot!!
piano may reduce the credit risk.—Mark P.
SIDNEY B. HOLCOMB,
Campbell.
3 N. Lincoln Ave., Chanute, Kans.
FAMOUS SONG WRITER DIES.
Charles Marshall, who composed the song, "I Hear
You Calling Me." for John McCormack, died on De-
cember 11 at Wembley, England. He was seventy
years old. The words of the song were written by
Harold Lake, of the editorial staff of the Daily Ex-
press, London. Mr. McCormack, who was en route
to Southampton aboard the Aquitania, did not arrive
in time for the funeral.
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