Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 46 N. 15 - Page 44
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
letter directly challenges an answer to a state- should do. Maybe Mr. Remick means that he is
ment made in these columns some two weeks sacrificing "professional copies" of his publica;
back, which reads: "If the power of Remick tions, to all and sundry who demand "a bunch
& Co. were used in the right direction it would of professionals"—orchestra music to gentlemen
go far to remedy existing conditions, which are who make a business of retailing it in the bar-
affecting his interests just as seriously as those rooms of 28th street, and valuable song slides
of his confreres." To give Mr. Remick a com- to poor singers who, when the hand of adver :
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor plete and satisfactory answer, the writer would sity falls upon them, are sought out and ap-
have to go back to the time when he first took over proached by persons who make a living pur-
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
the Witney-Warner Publishing Co., of Detroit. Al- chasing for an infinitesimal sum what they well
*
J . HAYDEN-CLARENDON, E d i t o r
though this to a certain extent is past history, know to be stolen property. Or perhaps Mr.
the germ of the cut-price war (and the writer, Remick means that he has been sacrificing fees
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York
of course, alludes to the wholesale cut-price war) to miserable shyster theatrical managers, their
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and
Mexico, $2.00 per year ; Canada, $3.50 ; all other couu
inaugurated by Mr. Remick at this time has effeminate piano players, or the grafting hus-
tries, $4.00.
since permeated the body of the music publish- bands of actresses who for some unaccountable •
Telephones—Numbers 4677 and 4678 Gramercy
ing world and to this day remains a deplor- reason have managed to clamber into the lime-
Connecting all Departments
able condition directly traceable to Mr. Remick's light. If such is the case, we hail Mr. Remick
NEW YORK, APRIL 11, 1908
avowed policy, that quantity sold at a minimum as a modern Abraham, sacrificing all that he
price is a better financial proposition than to should hold nearest and dearest to his business
uphold prices and sell on a smaller scale. So heart.
far as Mr. Remick is personally concerned he
Whomsoever the Cap Fits.
has proved beyond a doubt that his contention
Does Mr. Remick desire the writer to justify
was correct, but at a cost to those of his less further the sentence quoted above? We repeat
fortunate brethren who had neither the money (hat Mr. Remick's power is enormous, and used
nor the material to work along the same lines, in the right direction, would go far to remedy
The week has been one of singular dulness which will never be thoroughly realized. No existing conditions in the music trade, and we
for both publisher and retailer, if complaints doubt Mr. Remick will say, "it is merely a believe, moreover, that Mr. Remick is both
are to be taken as a criterion of trade condi- question of history repeating itself, a case of
ready and willing to use this power in the right
tions. There is nothing surprising, however, in the natural law—'the survival of the fittest.'" direction if given a fair chance to do so. The
this state of affairs, as from time immemorial Truly, but there is another law which has stood unfortunate part of the whole situation is that
Lent has been far from prosperous in the music the test of the ages—a law which will last long he has been heaped with a good deal of unde-
trade. Yet there is every hope that things will after the "fittest" has passed onward—a law served blame, barked at and reviled, until, driven
which from the birth of time has stood as the against the wall, he has retorted with the char-
look up toward Easter, as there is plenty of
basis of each and every religion and creed, "Do acteristic defi, "Damn it, I'll show them!" This
good material on the market.
unto others as you wish to be done by."
sort of attitude, although not surprising, is hard-
The Survival of the Fittest.
ly calculated to place the sheet music trade once
In another column of this department we
The Victim of His Own Sacrifice.
From Mr. Remick's letter we quote the sen- more upon a substantial and paying basis. There
print a characteristic letter from the head of
the well-known publishing house known as tence, "How much more do you want us to must be more of a spirit of give and take
If Mr. among the publishing fraternity before any real
Jerome H. Remick & Co. Mr. Remick's worst sacrifice than we are sacrificing?"
enemy will not accuse him of garrulousness, for Remick means that he is sacrificing his good and lasting good can be expected. We have
what little he says is usually much to the point, music at a price utterly inconsistent with a long preached cooperation as the remedy for
and in the past he has proved himself well worth reasonable profit, we beg of him, for the sake one and all of the existing evils which are so
while listening to. The Review has long re- of the music trade as a whole, to stay his hand rampant in the music publishing world, and
garded many of Mr. Remick's innovations—if, and stop the sacrifice, for Mr. Remick must well the sooner some sort of alliance can be formed
the sooner the emancipation of the trade as a
indeed, they were his innovations, which is a know that department stores, jobbers, to say
whole may be expected. And to the publisher
debatable point—in the world of music publish- nothing of the buying public, are thankless gods
who chances to read the paragraph headed, "The
to
make
sacrifices
to.
Again,
if
Mr.
Remick
ing as distinctly antagonistic to the general wel-
Victim of His Own Sacrifice," and who may
fare of the trade as a whole, and while it has means that he is sacrificing his good money to
fondly imagine that it is directed to Jerome H.
induce
useless
and
ungrateful
performers
to
no hesitation in placing itself on record as
sing songs that would sell, and sell well, with- Remick alone, we point out the fact that he is
against Mr. Remick's policy on a number of
sadly mistaken, it is a cap designed for every
vital questions, it has never for a moment ques- out their assistance, then we agree with Mr. head that it fits, and the writer imagines that it
tioned his honesty of purpose. Mr. Remick's Remick that he is sacrificing more than he
COMMENTS B Y -
M'KINLEYIO'MUSIC
FRANCIS, DAY & HUNTER
are the publishers of the most successful
songs sung by
ALICE LLOYD
and all the successful songs sung by
DEALERS WILL FIND OUR LATEST
PUBLICATION
"THE MOST POPULAR
PIANO DANCE FOLIO"
One of the Best Folios in Our Series and the Only
Actually Complete Dance Folio Published.
HARRY LAUDER
and
|JP We Have Interesting Introductory Rates.
Write for descriplive circular and prices.
VESTA VICTORIA
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE
NEW YORK
15 West 30th St. NEW YORK
31-33-35 W. 15th St.
NEW YORK CITY
Costs You 3 Cents
Write To-Day for Samples and Special Offer
McKINLEY MUSIC CO. WM. McKINLEY, Pros.
158 Harrison St., Chicago
74 5th Ave., N. Y.
The Greatest March Song
SINCE "GOOD-BYE LITTLE GIRL GOOD-BYE"
ii
TRUE HEART
By
ERNEST R.'BALL and GEO. GRAFF, JR.
Writers of
To the Dealer
D
O If You Have Not Yet Got
OUR
I
T
N
NOVELTIES
O
W You are Losing Money
19O8
It «lll pay you to ke p lu touch with us. Writ* to-day.
THIEBES-STIERLIN MUSIC CO., m i
D
O
I
T
N
O
w
OUR NEW ISSUE PROPOSITION
"AS LONG AS THE WORLD
ROLLS ON"
is of great interest to every live Dealer. We
Bill our Monthly New Issues at 5 cents per
Copy. Subscribe now. The following are
some of our best sellers:
Its Success Is Sweeping .the Country
"MOONBEAMS AND DREAMS OF YOU"—"A LITTLE
COZY FLAT "—* MONTEREY"—" NIGHT AND DAY"
—"WHILE YOU ARE MINE 1 —"MORNING CY"
"FOREST KING" March.
Write as To-day
VICTOR KREMER CO.
152 Lake Street
CHICAGO
ORDBR
NOW
M. WITMARK & SONS
144 W. 37th St., NEW YORK
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
letter directly challenges an answer to a state- should do. Maybe Mr. Remick means that he is
ment made in these columns some two weeks sacrificing "professional copies" of his publica;
back, which reads: "If the power of Remick tions, to all and sundry who demand "a bunch
& Co. were used in the right direction it would of professionals"—orchestra music to gentlemen
go far to remedy existing conditions, which are who make a business of retailing it in the bar-
affecting his interests just as seriously as those rooms of 28th street, and valuable song slides
of his confreres." To give Mr. Remick a com- to poor singers who, when the hand of adver :
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor plete and satisfactory answer, the writer would sity falls upon them, are sought out and ap-
have to go back to the time when he first took over proached by persons who make a living pur-
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
the Witney-Warner Publishing Co., of Detroit. Al- chasing for an infinitesimal sum what they well
*
J . HAYDEN-CLARENDON, E d i t o r
though this to a certain extent is past history, know to be stolen property. Or perhaps Mr.
the germ of the cut-price war (and the writer, Remick means that he has been sacrificing fees
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York
of course, alludes to the wholesale cut-price war) to miserable shyster theatrical managers, their
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and
Mexico, $2.00 per year ; Canada, $3.50 ; all other couu
inaugurated by Mr. Remick at this time has effeminate piano players, or the grafting hus-
tries, $4.00.
since permeated the body of the music publish- bands of actresses who for some unaccountable •
Telephones—Numbers 4677 and 4678 Gramercy
ing world and to this day remains a deplor- reason have managed to clamber into the lime-
Connecting all Departments
able condition directly traceable to Mr. Remick's light. If such is the case, we hail Mr. Remick
NEW YORK, APRIL 11, 1908
avowed policy, that quantity sold at a minimum as a modern Abraham, sacrificing all that he
price is a better financial proposition than to should hold nearest and dearest to his business
uphold prices and sell on a smaller scale. So heart.
far as Mr. Remick is personally concerned he
Whomsoever the Cap Fits.
has proved beyond a doubt that his contention
Does Mr. Remick desire the writer to justify
was correct, but at a cost to those of his less further the sentence quoted above? We repeat
fortunate brethren who had neither the money (hat Mr. Remick's power is enormous, and used
nor the material to work along the same lines, in the right direction, would go far to remedy
The week has been one of singular dulness which will never be thoroughly realized. No existing conditions in the music trade, and we
for both publisher and retailer, if complaints doubt Mr. Remick will say, "it is merely a believe, moreover, that Mr. Remick is both
are to be taken as a criterion of trade condi- question of history repeating itself, a case of
ready and willing to use this power in the right
tions. There is nothing surprising, however, in the natural law—'the survival of the fittest.'" direction if given a fair chance to do so. The
this state of affairs, as from time immemorial Truly, but there is another law which has stood unfortunate part of the whole situation is that
Lent has been far from prosperous in the music the test of the ages—a law which will last long he has been heaped with a good deal of unde-
trade. Yet there is every hope that things will after the "fittest" has passed onward—a law served blame, barked at and reviled, until, driven
which from the birth of time has stood as the against the wall, he has retorted with the char-
look up toward Easter, as there is plenty of
basis of each and every religion and creed, "Do acteristic defi, "Damn it, I'll show them!" This
good material on the market.
unto others as you wish to be done by."
sort of attitude, although not surprising, is hard-
The Survival of the Fittest.
ly calculated to place the sheet music trade once
In another column of this department we
The Victim of His Own Sacrifice.
From Mr. Remick's letter we quote the sen- more upon a substantial and paying basis. There
print a characteristic letter from the head of
the well-known publishing house known as tence, "How much more do you want us to must be more of a spirit of give and take
If Mr. among the publishing fraternity before any real
Jerome H. Remick & Co. Mr. Remick's worst sacrifice than we are sacrificing?"
enemy will not accuse him of garrulousness, for Remick means that he is sacrificing his good and lasting good can be expected. We have
what little he says is usually much to the point, music at a price utterly inconsistent with a long preached cooperation as the remedy for
and in the past he has proved himself well worth reasonable profit, we beg of him, for the sake one and all of the existing evils which are so
while listening to. The Review has long re- of the music trade as a whole, to stay his hand rampant in the music publishing world, and
garded many of Mr. Remick's innovations—if, and stop the sacrifice, for Mr. Remick must well the sooner some sort of alliance can be formed
the sooner the emancipation of the trade as a
indeed, they were his innovations, which is a know that department stores, jobbers, to say
whole may be expected. And to the publisher
debatable point—in the world of music publish- nothing of the buying public, are thankless gods
who chances to read the paragraph headed, "The
to
make
sacrifices
to.
Again,
if
Mr.
Remick
ing as distinctly antagonistic to the general wel-
Victim of His Own Sacrifice," and who may
fare of the trade as a whole, and while it has means that he is sacrificing his good money to
fondly imagine that it is directed to Jerome H.
induce
useless
and
ungrateful
performers
to
no hesitation in placing itself on record as
sing songs that would sell, and sell well, with- Remick alone, we point out the fact that he is
against Mr. Remick's policy on a number of
sadly mistaken, it is a cap designed for every
vital questions, it has never for a moment ques- out their assistance, then we agree with Mr. head that it fits, and the writer imagines that it
tioned his honesty of purpose. Mr. Remick's Remick that he is sacrificing more than he
COMMENTS B Y -
M'KINLEYIO'MUSIC
FRANCIS, DAY & HUNTER
are the publishers of the most successful
songs sung by
ALICE LLOYD
and all the successful songs sung by
DEALERS WILL FIND OUR LATEST
PUBLICATION
"THE MOST POPULAR
PIANO DANCE FOLIO"
One of the Best Folios in Our Series and the Only
Actually Complete Dance Folio Published.
HARRY LAUDER
and
|JP We Have Interesting Introductory Rates.
Write for descriplive circular and prices.
VESTA VICTORIA
HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE
NEW YORK
15 West 30th St. NEW YORK
31-33-35 W. 15th St.
NEW YORK CITY
Costs You 3 Cents
Write To-Day for Samples and Special Offer
McKINLEY MUSIC CO. WM. McKINLEY, Pros.
158 Harrison St., Chicago
74 5th Ave., N. Y.
The Greatest March Song
SINCE "GOOD-BYE LITTLE GIRL GOOD-BYE"
ii
TRUE HEART
By
ERNEST R.'BALL and GEO. GRAFF, JR.
Writers of
To the Dealer
D
O If You Have Not Yet Got
OUR
I
T
N
NOVELTIES
O
W You are Losing Money
19O8
It «lll pay you to ke p lu touch with us. Writ* to-day.
THIEBES-STIERLIN MUSIC CO., m i
D
O
I
T
N
O
w
OUR NEW ISSUE PROPOSITION
"AS LONG AS THE WORLD
ROLLS ON"
is of great interest to every live Dealer. We
Bill our Monthly New Issues at 5 cents per
Copy. Subscribe now. The following are
some of our best sellers:
Its Success Is Sweeping .the Country
"MOONBEAMS AND DREAMS OF YOU"—"A LITTLE
COZY FLAT "—* MONTEREY"—" NIGHT AND DAY"
—"WHILE YOU ARE MINE 1 —"MORNING CY"
"FOREST KING" March.
Write as To-day
VICTOR KREMER CO.
152 Lake Street
CHICAGO
ORDBR
NOW
M. WITMARK & SONS
144 W. 37th St., NEW YORK
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