Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 46 N. 13 - Page 46
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46
THE
WITMARK'S REMARKABLE SEASON.
Business Has Shown a Steady Growth Week
After Week—Some Notable Song Successes
of the Season—A Record to be Proud of.
During a recent chat with '"Our Man on the
Street," Mr. Julius Witmark, of M. Witraark &
Sons, declared this to be the most remarkable
season they have had in recent years, as starting
in with a poor outlook it gradually worked up to
one of unexpected prosperity.
Strangely enough this prosperity has not moved
ISIDOEE WITMAKK.
along in any set groove, a circumstance com-
monly found in music publishing; nor have sales
been confined to any one song or particular class
of songs, but have been equally distributed among
several distinct styles. For example, "Just
Someone," "Somebody Loves You Dear," "My
Dear," "Take Me With You in Your Dreams" (by
the writers of "Goodnight, Beloved"), "Caris-
sima," "When the Birds in Georgia Sing of Ten-
nessee," "I'd Live or I Would Die for You,"
"When Sweet Marie Was Sweet Sixteen," "She
Couldn't Keep Away from the Ten-Cent Store,"
"Since My Mariutch Learned the Merry Widow
Waltz," "All the Girls Look Good to Me,"
"Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been
Gone," "Just to Remind You," "Just Because He
Couldn't Sing Love Me and the World Is Mine,"
"As Long as the World Rolls On," and "True
Heart," all have been remarkable sellers.
One of the most notable songs of the season is
the new Ernest R. Ball and George Graff, Jr., bal-
lad, "As Long as the World Rolls On," which
from the present outlook will prove a successor
to "Love Me and the World Is Mine." Again.
"True Heart," a new march song, also
by Ernest Ball, looks like being an enor-
mous seller, the clever words breathing patriot-
ism and sentiment, while the martial strains
of the music thrill the listener through and
through. It must not be imagined for an in-
stant that the present prosperity of the firm
of Witmark is confined to single song num-
bers. This is strikingly apparent in the musical
productions they have handled this year. In the
early part of the season "The Top o' th' World"
was produced at the Majestic Theater for a brief
run but, thanks to its catchy song numbers, ex-
tended its time in New York to over 200 per-
formances. In "The Girl Behind the Counter"
they have interpolated Kenneth S. Clark's "When
You Steal a Kiss or Two," sung by Lotta Faust,
which is one of the successes of the Herald
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Square attraction. Maude Raymond duplicated
her "Bill Simmons" with "Somebody's Been
Around Here Since I've Been Gone," which she
is singing in "The Gay White Way." Chauncey
Olcott in "O'Neill of Dairy" never had four better
songg than "Michael McGinnerty," "One Little
Sweet Little Girl," "A Rose of Old Derry" and
"Every Star Falls in Love With Its Mate."
In the Kolb and Dill play, "Lonesome Town,"
at the Circle Theatre, the Witmark interpolated
number, "Just Someone," is the song of the play;
"Starlight Maid," sung in the big New York Hip-
podrome spectacle, "The Auto Race," has proven
a most successful number, while at the Cleveland
Hippodrome, "I'd Rather Be a Farmer Than a
Soldier" and "Daisies," two songs used in the
spectacle, "The Cloudburst," have proven success-
ful in the West. "I Think an Awful Lot of You,"
a number in Cole and Johnson's "The Shoo Fly
Regiment," is one of the most attractive numbers
in that play.
A distinct novelty is "Wouldn't You Like to
Have Me for Your Sweetheart," sung by Flora
Zabelle in "The Yankee Tourist," the musical
play in which her husband, Raymond Hitchcock,
has been successfully touring this season. Mr.
Hitchcock also scored a decided success with the
song, "Wall, I Swan."
It would seem by recent theatrical events that
the Witmark season of prosperity was just be-
ginning. "The Soul Kiss," Adeline Genee's star-
ring vehicle, by Harry B. Smith, music by Mau-
rice Levi, is playing to capacity at the New York
Theater. Two recent Chicago openings, "The
Three Twins," a musical adaptation of Mrs. Pa-
checo's famous farce, "Incog," music by Karl
.in.ir.s WITMARK.
Hoschna, is the sensation of the "Windy City,"
and Ricnard Carle's 'Mary's Lamb," at the Illi-
nois, have both proven enormous musical suc-
cesses. The new Pixley & Luders musical play,
"Marcelle," and "The Gay Musician," by Charles
J. Campbell and Julian Edwards, will also shortly
be produced and will be published by the House
of Witmark, all of which goes to bear out the
motto, "Success is work," adopted by M. Wit-
mark & Sons, and certainly lived up to by them
to the full letter of the law. Truly their latest
record is one to be proud of.
PUBLISHERS' DISTRIBUTING CO.
"SEE SAW,"
•1 West 2Mh Street, New York
and the greatest ballad in years
" I AM WAITING FOR THE
SUMMERTIME AND YOU."
Special rates to the trade this month only.
GUS EDWARDS MUSIC PUB. CO.
1512 BROADWAY,
-
NEW YORK
A Publisher Who Knows.—Many thanks for
your letters. Don't think that they are being
overlooked. As a matter of fact, our "Man on
the Street" will go into the matter exhaustively
in the near future. Please sign your name,
however, which will be treated confidentially if
so desired. Anonymous communications are sel-
dom worth the paper they are written, on.
Walter Gerson.—The omission of the name of
Carl Fischer, 6 Fourth avenue, New York, from
our directory of music publishers was, of course,
an unpardonable oversight. The firm is one of
the oldest and most respected in the city. They
are the publishers of our contemporary, "The
Metronome."
E. R., Troy, N. Y.; Arthur Mullen, F. A. Bro-
deck, G. N., St. Louis; N. Dolland, Wm. E. Cun-
ningham, F. E. R., Chicago; K. Nairn, S. A.
Palmer, Ernest Bott, G. E. McCallum, Walter
Talley, Jos. Eisner, J. F. D., Bronx; Thomas
Naylor, Edgar Houpt, C. E. Blaine, Louis Arn
stein, Wilfred Meeker, O. E. Hubbard, M. R.,
Danbury, Conn., and others.—While your kind
letters are much appreciated we can only assure
you that the World of Music Publishing Depart-
ment is yet in its infancy, as developments will
shortly prove.
Adolph Kepple, Rouen, France.—The Talking
Machine World is published by this office.
Monthly. 10 cents.
T. E. R.—The policy of The Review is absolute
neutrality on all questions, save where the music
trade as a whole is affected.
E. Reid.—Published by M. Witmark & Sons,
West 37th street, New York.
Jas. E. Erhardt.—We are very glad you found
the feature of so much interest. We have decided
to continue it from week to week.
ANENT PROFESSIONAL COPY EVIL.
Gus Edwards' 1908 Hits
" THAT'S WHAT THE ROSE SAID TO ME,"
In this column all queries relating to music and the
music trade will be gladly answered.
Address Editor,
Music Publishing Department, Music Trade Review, 1
Madison Avenue. New York.
JOBBERS ONLY
We do NOT PUBLISH Mu.lc. SELLING AGENTS
exeluelrely.
Carry Music of all th« Publishers. We ••Holt the
Sheet Musi* Business of Dealers throughout the oeuatry.
Orders properly takes csre of sad goods promptly shipped
New York, March 24, 1908.
Editor Music Department, The Music Trade
Review:
My Dear Sir—I read with considerable interest
in last week's Review the article written by
your "Man on the Street," in which, with his
usual forcefulness, he attacks the professional
copy evil. I would like to make it plain, how-
ever, that so far as we are concerned, any pro-
fessional copies which P. Harstn & Co. adver-
tise gratis were never procured from us legiti-
mately, i. e., for the avowed purpose of distri-
bution. Indeed, we have insisted for some time
past that slide brokers buy regular copies from
us, having refused absolutely to give profes-
sional copies to anyone save those who use them
for the purpose for which they are intended.
Most assuredly we would require the services
of a first-class alienist if we did otherwise.
Yours very truly,
HELF & HACER,
Per J, Fred Helf.
By some unaccountable lapse, for which we
cannot even blame the printers, we last week
described our good friend Seymour Furth, the
professional manager of the Great Eastern Music
Publishers., as "a well-known musical director,"
no doubt having William Furth in mind at the
time of writing. Now, Seymour Furth is not a
musical director, although he is a first-class
musician, and in making the amende honorable
to the composer of "No Wedding Bells for Me"
and a number of other song hits, we take the
opportunity of congratulating the Great Eastern
Music Publishers Co. upon having secured the
services of Seymour Furth, who will no doubt
turn out new successes with the same regularity
for which he has in the past been celebrated.
Jerome & Schwartz, the well-known song writ-
ers, have signed a contract for a term of years
with Cohan & Harris.
46
THE
WITMARK'S REMARKABLE SEASON.
Business Has Shown a Steady Growth Week
After Week—Some Notable Song Successes
of the Season—A Record to be Proud of.
During a recent chat with '"Our Man on the
Street," Mr. Julius Witmark, of M. Witraark &
Sons, declared this to be the most remarkable
season they have had in recent years, as starting
in with a poor outlook it gradually worked up to
one of unexpected prosperity.
Strangely enough this prosperity has not moved
ISIDOEE WITMAKK.
along in any set groove, a circumstance com-
monly found in music publishing; nor have sales
been confined to any one song or particular class
of songs, but have been equally distributed among
several distinct styles. For example, "Just
Someone," "Somebody Loves You Dear," "My
Dear," "Take Me With You in Your Dreams" (by
the writers of "Goodnight, Beloved"), "Caris-
sima," "When the Birds in Georgia Sing of Ten-
nessee," "I'd Live or I Would Die for You,"
"When Sweet Marie Was Sweet Sixteen," "She
Couldn't Keep Away from the Ten-Cent Store,"
"Since My Mariutch Learned the Merry Widow
Waltz," "All the Girls Look Good to Me,"
"Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been
Gone," "Just to Remind You," "Just Because He
Couldn't Sing Love Me and the World Is Mine,"
"As Long as the World Rolls On," and "True
Heart," all have been remarkable sellers.
One of the most notable songs of the season is
the new Ernest R. Ball and George Graff, Jr., bal-
lad, "As Long as the World Rolls On," which
from the present outlook will prove a successor
to "Love Me and the World Is Mine." Again.
"True Heart," a new march song, also
by Ernest Ball, looks like being an enor-
mous seller, the clever words breathing patriot-
ism and sentiment, while the martial strains
of the music thrill the listener through and
through. It must not be imagined for an in-
stant that the present prosperity of the firm
of Witmark is confined to single song num-
bers. This is strikingly apparent in the musical
productions they have handled this year. In the
early part of the season "The Top o' th' World"
was produced at the Majestic Theater for a brief
run but, thanks to its catchy song numbers, ex-
tended its time in New York to over 200 per-
formances. In "The Girl Behind the Counter"
they have interpolated Kenneth S. Clark's "When
You Steal a Kiss or Two," sung by Lotta Faust,
which is one of the successes of the Herald
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Square attraction. Maude Raymond duplicated
her "Bill Simmons" with "Somebody's Been
Around Here Since I've Been Gone," which she
is singing in "The Gay White Way." Chauncey
Olcott in "O'Neill of Dairy" never had four better
songg than "Michael McGinnerty," "One Little
Sweet Little Girl," "A Rose of Old Derry" and
"Every Star Falls in Love With Its Mate."
In the Kolb and Dill play, "Lonesome Town,"
at the Circle Theatre, the Witmark interpolated
number, "Just Someone," is the song of the play;
"Starlight Maid," sung in the big New York Hip-
podrome spectacle, "The Auto Race," has proven
a most successful number, while at the Cleveland
Hippodrome, "I'd Rather Be a Farmer Than a
Soldier" and "Daisies," two songs used in the
spectacle, "The Cloudburst," have proven success-
ful in the West. "I Think an Awful Lot of You,"
a number in Cole and Johnson's "The Shoo Fly
Regiment," is one of the most attractive numbers
in that play.
A distinct novelty is "Wouldn't You Like to
Have Me for Your Sweetheart," sung by Flora
Zabelle in "The Yankee Tourist," the musical
play in which her husband, Raymond Hitchcock,
has been successfully touring this season. Mr.
Hitchcock also scored a decided success with the
song, "Wall, I Swan."
It would seem by recent theatrical events that
the Witmark season of prosperity was just be-
ginning. "The Soul Kiss," Adeline Genee's star-
ring vehicle, by Harry B. Smith, music by Mau-
rice Levi, is playing to capacity at the New York
Theater. Two recent Chicago openings, "The
Three Twins," a musical adaptation of Mrs. Pa-
checo's famous farce, "Incog," music by Karl
.in.ir.s WITMARK.
Hoschna, is the sensation of the "Windy City,"
and Ricnard Carle's 'Mary's Lamb," at the Illi-
nois, have both proven enormous musical suc-
cesses. The new Pixley & Luders musical play,
"Marcelle," and "The Gay Musician," by Charles
J. Campbell and Julian Edwards, will also shortly
be produced and will be published by the House
of Witmark, all of which goes to bear out the
motto, "Success is work," adopted by M. Wit-
mark & Sons, and certainly lived up to by them
to the full letter of the law. Truly their latest
record is one to be proud of.
PUBLISHERS' DISTRIBUTING CO.
"SEE SAW,"
•1 West 2Mh Street, New York
and the greatest ballad in years
" I AM WAITING FOR THE
SUMMERTIME AND YOU."
Special rates to the trade this month only.
GUS EDWARDS MUSIC PUB. CO.
1512 BROADWAY,
-
NEW YORK
A Publisher Who Knows.—Many thanks for
your letters. Don't think that they are being
overlooked. As a matter of fact, our "Man on
the Street" will go into the matter exhaustively
in the near future. Please sign your name,
however, which will be treated confidentially if
so desired. Anonymous communications are sel-
dom worth the paper they are written, on.
Walter Gerson.—The omission of the name of
Carl Fischer, 6 Fourth avenue, New York, from
our directory of music publishers was, of course,
an unpardonable oversight. The firm is one of
the oldest and most respected in the city. They
are the publishers of our contemporary, "The
Metronome."
E. R., Troy, N. Y.; Arthur Mullen, F. A. Bro-
deck, G. N., St. Louis; N. Dolland, Wm. E. Cun-
ningham, F. E. R., Chicago; K. Nairn, S. A.
Palmer, Ernest Bott, G. E. McCallum, Walter
Talley, Jos. Eisner, J. F. D., Bronx; Thomas
Naylor, Edgar Houpt, C. E. Blaine, Louis Arn
stein, Wilfred Meeker, O. E. Hubbard, M. R.,
Danbury, Conn., and others.—While your kind
letters are much appreciated we can only assure
you that the World of Music Publishing Depart-
ment is yet in its infancy, as developments will
shortly prove.
Adolph Kepple, Rouen, France.—The Talking
Machine World is published by this office.
Monthly. 10 cents.
T. E. R.—The policy of The Review is absolute
neutrality on all questions, save where the music
trade as a whole is affected.
E. Reid.—Published by M. Witmark & Sons,
West 37th street, New York.
Jas. E. Erhardt.—We are very glad you found
the feature of so much interest. We have decided
to continue it from week to week.
ANENT PROFESSIONAL COPY EVIL.
Gus Edwards' 1908 Hits
" THAT'S WHAT THE ROSE SAID TO ME,"
In this column all queries relating to music and the
music trade will be gladly answered.
Address Editor,
Music Publishing Department, Music Trade Review, 1
Madison Avenue. New York.
JOBBERS ONLY
We do NOT PUBLISH Mu.lc. SELLING AGENTS
exeluelrely.
Carry Music of all th« Publishers. We ••Holt the
Sheet Musi* Business of Dealers throughout the oeuatry.
Orders properly takes csre of sad goods promptly shipped
New York, March 24, 1908.
Editor Music Department, The Music Trade
Review:
My Dear Sir—I read with considerable interest
in last week's Review the article written by
your "Man on the Street," in which, with his
usual forcefulness, he attacks the professional
copy evil. I would like to make it plain, how-
ever, that so far as we are concerned, any pro-
fessional copies which P. Harstn & Co. adver-
tise gratis were never procured from us legiti-
mately, i. e., for the avowed purpose of distri-
bution. Indeed, we have insisted for some time
past that slide brokers buy regular copies from
us, having refused absolutely to give profes-
sional copies to anyone save those who use them
for the purpose for which they are intended.
Most assuredly we would require the services
of a first-class alienist if we did otherwise.
Yours very truly,
HELF & HACER,
Per J, Fred Helf.
By some unaccountable lapse, for which we
cannot even blame the printers, we last week
described our good friend Seymour Furth, the
professional manager of the Great Eastern Music
Publishers., as "a well-known musical director,"
no doubt having William Furth in mind at the
time of writing. Now, Seymour Furth is not a
musical director, although he is a first-class
musician, and in making the amende honorable
to the composer of "No Wedding Bells for Me"
and a number of other song hits, we take the
opportunity of congratulating the Great Eastern
Music Publishers Co. upon having secured the
services of Seymour Furth, who will no doubt
turn out new successes with the same regularity
for which he has in the past been celebrated.
Jerome & Schwartz, the well-known song writ-
ers, have signed a contract for a term of years
with Cohan & Harris.
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