Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 39 N. 20 - Page 44
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Bratton achieved renown, but his charming in-
strumental numbers, such as "In a Cozy Corner,"
"The Roses' Honeymoon," "In a Pagoda" and
"Laces and Graces," have added materially to his
fame as a composer. He is at present working on
the score of "The Pearl and the Pumpkin" in
conjunction with Paul West and Denslow, for
Klaw & Erlanger, who promise to give it an early
and elaborate production.
M. Witmark & Sons, who exclusively publish
all of Mr. Bratton's works, say that "Happy Jappy
Soldier Man," the popular march song, is one of
the best compositions of its kind that Mr. Bratton
has written, and bids fair to become a winner.
JOHN W. BRATTON.
If there is a composer who is the personifica-
tion of versatility and originality that composer
is John W. Bratton, who has been identified with
the progressive house of M. Witmark & Sons for
many years. Mr. Bratton never disappoints, his
object always being to give to his work con-
scientious thought and care. Thus he never turns
out a bad or ill-constructed song or a carelessly
built instrumental composition. He is an artist
whose first impulse is to produce something
worthy of his calling, and he would not be satis-
fied to go below his previous attainments simply
to see how many pieces he could put upon the
market. When a composer has reached the high
standard to which Mr. Bratton has lifted himself
he must needs be very cautious how he proceeds,
for one should never forget his art, if he does
not wish to retrograde. While Mr. Bratton is a
most indefatigable worker and is painstaking and
particular in every detail, he never forces himself
to go beyond a certain limit. His compositions,
therefore, are finished, evenly balanced and logi-
cal throughout.
Mr. Bratton is also a conductor as well as com-
poser, but he devotes the greater part of his time
to song writing and instrumental works. Among
his successful concert songs may be mentioned
"Don't Ask Me to Forget," "That You May Be
Mine," "Such Is My Love for Thee," "Your Own,"
"Not for a Day, But for All Time," "Spring Time
Bells," "When You Are Near" and "In a Garden
of Faded Flowers." It would take considerable
space to enumerate all of Mr. Bratton's successful
ballads and novel songs. A close study of the
following will serve to show how versatile is this
composer in the range of songs alone: "My Little
Kong Kong Baby," "My Little Belle of Japan,"
"Two Little, Blue Little, True Little Eyes," "She
Reads the New York Papers Every Day," "Made-
moiselle New York," "As the Ivy Loves the Oak"
and "A Soldier of Love Am I." These show how
clever he is in fitting appropriate melodies to
verses wherein are depicted the pathetic, the hu-
morous and the heroic.
The songs most recently written by Mr. Brat-
ton, and which have been received with great
favor in this country and in Europe, are the fol-
lowing: "I'm on the Water-Wagon Now," sung
by Frank Daniels in "The Office Boy"; "My Cozy
Corner Girl" and "In Black and White," which
are specially featured in "The School Girl," and
"My Cozy Corner Girl," which is prominent in
"The Earl and the Girl, now being played in
London. Not alone in writing song hits has Mr.
POPULAR SONG and INSTRUMENTAL HITS
FISHING
EGYPT
PLAIN MAMIE O'HOOLEY
P£GGY BRADY
NEW OPERATIC
POLLY PRIM MARCH
SHAME ON YOU
FALL IN LINE
BIG INDIAN CHIEF
PUBLICATIONS
ISLE OF SPICE
SAMBO GIRL
JEWEL OF ASIA
TWO ROSES
MADCAP PRINCESS
RED FEATHER
Published by
JOS. W. STERN 6 CO.,
34 East 21st St., New York
CHICAGO
LONDON
SAN FRANCISCO
POPULARITY OF COLORED SINGERS.
At a recent Sunday concert in one of the New
York theatres two young women came out on the
stage and sang a Spanish waltz song with a lilt-
ing, catchy refrain. They might have been Span-
iards, but a sharp eye detected that they were
Americans and colored, remarks the New York
Sun. In the songs they sang there was not the
slightest trace of the negro accent. Soon one of
the girls disappeared, leaving the audience hum-
ming the refrain. The other sang "Eyes in the
Moon are Peeping at You," or some such popular
melody. Presently the first returned in an
Egyptian costume and sang. Next No. 2 vanished
BREAKING THE ARRANGING RECORD.
for a minute, then joined the other in a similar
It was left to Louis C. Muniz, of Stern & Co.'s costume and both sang. They might have passed
staff, to break the record in making the piano ar- for Egyptians then. The voices were wonderfully
rangement for the publication of Smith & Brown's pure and sweet. The songs were the hit of the
new song, '"Taint the Kind of Grub I've Been evening. It was those particular melodies that
Getting Down Home." The song was taken down the audience hummed as it filed out.
over the long distance telephone and arranged in
"To my mind," one man commented to another
2iy 2 minutes. It was timed, looked over and de- as they departed, "there you see the most remark-
clared perfect by the well-known quartette of able development in popular entertainment in the
arrangers and song writers, consisting of Robert last twenty years. Two decades ago colored
Recker, Frank Saddler, Alfred Solman and John women singers would never have been permitted
Heinzman.
to sing on the same stage on equal terms with
Ludwig Englander has now four operas en- white women. Now the two races share the
joying successful road tours, all of which are laurels and the colored singers have the larger
published by Stern & Co. They comprise "The success. I think that one little act to-night
Two Roses," in which Fritzi Scheff is starring; showed the social progress made by the colored
"The Madcap Princess," in which Miss Lulu race better than anything I ever witnessed."
Glaser has a big success; "The Office Boy," which
is a splendid vehicle for Mr. Frank Daniels' tal-
HOW SURPRISING VALUES ARE GIVEN.
ents, and "The Jewel of Asia," in which the star
is Miss Michelena, supported by an able company.
While many stock company managers are com-
Each of the shows has special big song hits, and plaining that it is impossible to obtain proper
we are told that Mr. Englander has several other material for presentation by their companies, it
big successes up his sleeve.
is significant to note that Mr. Proctor experiences
no difficulty in this direction.
The secret is to be found in the fact that Mr.
WITH THE PROFESSIONALS.
Proctor is willing to pay liberally for novelties
The colored slides to Mr. Harris' new baby for stock use, when under ordinary circumstances
song, "Why Don't They Play With Me?" are it is not found possible to obtain a novelty in
claimed to be the finest of their kind ever thrown plays through the usual channel. The Proctor
upon a canvas . The Harris house makes a spe- management have secured many plays not yet
cialty of descriptive and illustrated songs, and given over to stock, the inducement being a lib-
no pains or expense are spared to obtain the best eral royalty and the knowledge that the piece
possible results.
will be given the best representation in the way
Lew Dockstader has just added to his repertoire of a capable company and staging.
Thus it is that New Yorkers have been enabled
a big new song hit in Furth and Moran's "All I
to
hear this season some of the notable successes
Needed Was the Money."
of the past decade. The audiences at Proctor's
Ethel Robinson, Etta Williams, Kathryn Miley theatres have been most appreciative of the
and Morrisey & Rich are featuring with great suc- values received. The performances without ex-
cess three big song hits from the house of Havi- ception this season have been unsually excellent.
land—'"Oysters and Clams," "What the Brass
Band Played" and "Danuel."
RECENT MUSIC.
Anna Driver, the popular little vaudeville
comedian, has introduced with great success in
her specialty Cole & Johnson's "Save It for Me,"
and Heinzman's Irish character song, "Esmer-
alda McCann." Poole & Burt are singing "When
the Harvest Moon Is Shining on the River" and
"Won't You Wait, Nellie Dear?" with great suc-
cess; which is also applicable to the charateristic
Indian song, "Big Indian Chief," as sung by
West & Van Siclen.
FROM M. WITMARK & SONS.
Vocal—"You and I Alone," by Helena Freder-
ick; "Dolly, My Dolly," by Trevor L. Corwell;
"Back to Boyland," by Florence O'Neill; "No-
body Loves Little Me," by Gus Edwards; "Saucy
Sally," by Theo. H. Northrup; "The Old Time
Waltz," by Lyn Udall; "The Man With the Din-
ner Pail," by Dillon Bros.; "Going to War," by
A. Buzzi-Peccia; "Susan," by A. Baldwin Sloane;
"Jingles, Jokes and Rhymes," by Ben Hapgood
Burt; "Oolong Ti," by Ed. J. Howe, Jr.; "Just
Al. G. Field's Minstrels write they are featuring My Style" (in "Fantana"), by Raymond Hubbell;
with big success "Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good- "In the Shadow of the Pyramid" (in "Mrs. Black
Bye," "The Songs My Mother Used to Sing," '"Tis is Back"), by Ernest R. Ball. Instrumental—
All I Ask," "Sweet Adeline" and "Sweet Rose of "Indian Patrol," two-step, by Howard Whitney;
Yesterday." "If I should," the big song hit of "My Dahomian Queen" (in "In Dahomey"), by
"The Runaways," and still being featured in that J. Leslie Hill; "A Dream of the Dance," by Harry
production, is in big demand with the sketch McLellan.
teams. All are Witmark publications.
Dockstader, whose minstrel company is playing
a prosperous engagement at the Herald Square
Theatre, has put on an illustrated edition of West
& Bratton's latest metropolitan satire, "Seeing
New York in a Rubberneck Hack." Needless to
say this furnishes the genial Lew with endless
opportunities for satire.
FROM F. B. HAVII-AND PUB. CO.
Vocal—"Can't You See My Heart Beats All for
You?" and "What the Brass Band Played," by
Theodore Morse; "In the Poppyfield," by Frank
W. Meacham; "My Faithful Rose," by Theodore
Morse; "Dan, Dan, Dan-u-el," by Ed. Rogers. In-
strumental—"Blue Bell," march song and chorus,
by Theo. F. Morse.
"Game of Love" and "Nancy Clancy," by Mau-
Amelia Somerville says she has never had a
rice Levi, from the Weber & Ziegfeld "Higgledy
Piggledy" company, are now being played by or- song which pleased her audiences more than
chestras throughout the United States. This "Happy Jappy Soldier Man," which she is making
the feature of her turn.
music will undoubtedly be a big success.
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Bratton achieved renown, but his charming in-
strumental numbers, such as "In a Cozy Corner,"
"The Roses' Honeymoon," "In a Pagoda" and
"Laces and Graces," have added materially to his
fame as a composer. He is at present working on
the score of "The Pearl and the Pumpkin" in
conjunction with Paul West and Denslow, for
Klaw & Erlanger, who promise to give it an early
and elaborate production.
M. Witmark & Sons, who exclusively publish
all of Mr. Bratton's works, say that "Happy Jappy
Soldier Man," the popular march song, is one of
the best compositions of its kind that Mr. Bratton
has written, and bids fair to become a winner.
JOHN W. BRATTON.
If there is a composer who is the personifica-
tion of versatility and originality that composer
is John W. Bratton, who has been identified with
the progressive house of M. Witmark & Sons for
many years. Mr. Bratton never disappoints, his
object always being to give to his work con-
scientious thought and care. Thus he never turns
out a bad or ill-constructed song or a carelessly
built instrumental composition. He is an artist
whose first impulse is to produce something
worthy of his calling, and he would not be satis-
fied to go below his previous attainments simply
to see how many pieces he could put upon the
market. When a composer has reached the high
standard to which Mr. Bratton has lifted himself
he must needs be very cautious how he proceeds,
for one should never forget his art, if he does
not wish to retrograde. While Mr. Bratton is a
most indefatigable worker and is painstaking and
particular in every detail, he never forces himself
to go beyond a certain limit. His compositions,
therefore, are finished, evenly balanced and logi-
cal throughout.
Mr. Bratton is also a conductor as well as com-
poser, but he devotes the greater part of his time
to song writing and instrumental works. Among
his successful concert songs may be mentioned
"Don't Ask Me to Forget," "That You May Be
Mine," "Such Is My Love for Thee," "Your Own,"
"Not for a Day, But for All Time," "Spring Time
Bells," "When You Are Near" and "In a Garden
of Faded Flowers." It would take considerable
space to enumerate all of Mr. Bratton's successful
ballads and novel songs. A close study of the
following will serve to show how versatile is this
composer in the range of songs alone: "My Little
Kong Kong Baby," "My Little Belle of Japan,"
"Two Little, Blue Little, True Little Eyes," "She
Reads the New York Papers Every Day," "Made-
moiselle New York," "As the Ivy Loves the Oak"
and "A Soldier of Love Am I." These show how
clever he is in fitting appropriate melodies to
verses wherein are depicted the pathetic, the hu-
morous and the heroic.
The songs most recently written by Mr. Brat-
ton, and which have been received with great
favor in this country and in Europe, are the fol-
lowing: "I'm on the Water-Wagon Now," sung
by Frank Daniels in "The Office Boy"; "My Cozy
Corner Girl" and "In Black and White," which
are specially featured in "The School Girl," and
"My Cozy Corner Girl," which is prominent in
"The Earl and the Girl, now being played in
London. Not alone in writing song hits has Mr.
POPULAR SONG and INSTRUMENTAL HITS
FISHING
EGYPT
PLAIN MAMIE O'HOOLEY
P£GGY BRADY
NEW OPERATIC
POLLY PRIM MARCH
SHAME ON YOU
FALL IN LINE
BIG INDIAN CHIEF
PUBLICATIONS
ISLE OF SPICE
SAMBO GIRL
JEWEL OF ASIA
TWO ROSES
MADCAP PRINCESS
RED FEATHER
Published by
JOS. W. STERN 6 CO.,
34 East 21st St., New York
CHICAGO
LONDON
SAN FRANCISCO
POPULARITY OF COLORED SINGERS.
At a recent Sunday concert in one of the New
York theatres two young women came out on the
stage and sang a Spanish waltz song with a lilt-
ing, catchy refrain. They might have been Span-
iards, but a sharp eye detected that they were
Americans and colored, remarks the New York
Sun. In the songs they sang there was not the
slightest trace of the negro accent. Soon one of
the girls disappeared, leaving the audience hum-
ming the refrain. The other sang "Eyes in the
Moon are Peeping at You," or some such popular
melody. Presently the first returned in an
Egyptian costume and sang. Next No. 2 vanished
BREAKING THE ARRANGING RECORD.
for a minute, then joined the other in a similar
It was left to Louis C. Muniz, of Stern & Co.'s costume and both sang. They might have passed
staff, to break the record in making the piano ar- for Egyptians then. The voices were wonderfully
rangement for the publication of Smith & Brown's pure and sweet. The songs were the hit of the
new song, '"Taint the Kind of Grub I've Been evening. It was those particular melodies that
Getting Down Home." The song was taken down the audience hummed as it filed out.
over the long distance telephone and arranged in
"To my mind," one man commented to another
2iy 2 minutes. It was timed, looked over and de- as they departed, "there you see the most remark-
clared perfect by the well-known quartette of able development in popular entertainment in the
arrangers and song writers, consisting of Robert last twenty years. Two decades ago colored
Recker, Frank Saddler, Alfred Solman and John women singers would never have been permitted
Heinzman.
to sing on the same stage on equal terms with
Ludwig Englander has now four operas en- white women. Now the two races share the
joying successful road tours, all of which are laurels and the colored singers have the larger
published by Stern & Co. They comprise "The success. I think that one little act to-night
Two Roses," in which Fritzi Scheff is starring; showed the social progress made by the colored
"The Madcap Princess," in which Miss Lulu race better than anything I ever witnessed."
Glaser has a big success; "The Office Boy," which
is a splendid vehicle for Mr. Frank Daniels' tal-
HOW SURPRISING VALUES ARE GIVEN.
ents, and "The Jewel of Asia," in which the star
is Miss Michelena, supported by an able company.
While many stock company managers are com-
Each of the shows has special big song hits, and plaining that it is impossible to obtain proper
we are told that Mr. Englander has several other material for presentation by their companies, it
big successes up his sleeve.
is significant to note that Mr. Proctor experiences
no difficulty in this direction.
The secret is to be found in the fact that Mr.
WITH THE PROFESSIONALS.
Proctor is willing to pay liberally for novelties
The colored slides to Mr. Harris' new baby for stock use, when under ordinary circumstances
song, "Why Don't They Play With Me?" are it is not found possible to obtain a novelty in
claimed to be the finest of their kind ever thrown plays through the usual channel. The Proctor
upon a canvas . The Harris house makes a spe- management have secured many plays not yet
cialty of descriptive and illustrated songs, and given over to stock, the inducement being a lib-
no pains or expense are spared to obtain the best eral royalty and the knowledge that the piece
possible results.
will be given the best representation in the way
Lew Dockstader has just added to his repertoire of a capable company and staging.
Thus it is that New Yorkers have been enabled
a big new song hit in Furth and Moran's "All I
to
hear this season some of the notable successes
Needed Was the Money."
of the past decade. The audiences at Proctor's
Ethel Robinson, Etta Williams, Kathryn Miley theatres have been most appreciative of the
and Morrisey & Rich are featuring with great suc- values received. The performances without ex-
cess three big song hits from the house of Havi- ception this season have been unsually excellent.
land—'"Oysters and Clams," "What the Brass
Band Played" and "Danuel."
RECENT MUSIC.
Anna Driver, the popular little vaudeville
comedian, has introduced with great success in
her specialty Cole & Johnson's "Save It for Me,"
and Heinzman's Irish character song, "Esmer-
alda McCann." Poole & Burt are singing "When
the Harvest Moon Is Shining on the River" and
"Won't You Wait, Nellie Dear?" with great suc-
cess; which is also applicable to the charateristic
Indian song, "Big Indian Chief," as sung by
West & Van Siclen.
FROM M. WITMARK & SONS.
Vocal—"You and I Alone," by Helena Freder-
ick; "Dolly, My Dolly," by Trevor L. Corwell;
"Back to Boyland," by Florence O'Neill; "No-
body Loves Little Me," by Gus Edwards; "Saucy
Sally," by Theo. H. Northrup; "The Old Time
Waltz," by Lyn Udall; "The Man With the Din-
ner Pail," by Dillon Bros.; "Going to War," by
A. Buzzi-Peccia; "Susan," by A. Baldwin Sloane;
"Jingles, Jokes and Rhymes," by Ben Hapgood
Burt; "Oolong Ti," by Ed. J. Howe, Jr.; "Just
Al. G. Field's Minstrels write they are featuring My Style" (in "Fantana"), by Raymond Hubbell;
with big success "Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good- "In the Shadow of the Pyramid" (in "Mrs. Black
Bye," "The Songs My Mother Used to Sing," '"Tis is Back"), by Ernest R. Ball. Instrumental—
All I Ask," "Sweet Adeline" and "Sweet Rose of "Indian Patrol," two-step, by Howard Whitney;
Yesterday." "If I should," the big song hit of "My Dahomian Queen" (in "In Dahomey"), by
"The Runaways," and still being featured in that J. Leslie Hill; "A Dream of the Dance," by Harry
production, is in big demand with the sketch McLellan.
teams. All are Witmark publications.
Dockstader, whose minstrel company is playing
a prosperous engagement at the Herald Square
Theatre, has put on an illustrated edition of West
& Bratton's latest metropolitan satire, "Seeing
New York in a Rubberneck Hack." Needless to
say this furnishes the genial Lew with endless
opportunities for satire.
FROM F. B. HAVII-AND PUB. CO.
Vocal—"Can't You See My Heart Beats All for
You?" and "What the Brass Band Played," by
Theodore Morse; "In the Poppyfield," by Frank
W. Meacham; "My Faithful Rose," by Theodore
Morse; "Dan, Dan, Dan-u-el," by Ed. Rogers. In-
strumental—"Blue Bell," march song and chorus,
by Theo. F. Morse.
"Game of Love" and "Nancy Clancy," by Mau-
Amelia Somerville says she has never had a
rice Levi, from the Weber & Ziegfeld "Higgledy
Piggledy" company, are now being played by or- song which pleased her audiences more than
chestras throughout the United States. This "Happy Jappy Soldier Man," which she is making
the feature of her turn.
music will undoubtedly be a big success.
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