Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 13 - Page 71
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CHAS. K. HARRIS' FALL CATALOG
OBSERVE "HARRY VON TILZER WEEK"
W1TMARK PUBLISHES PRIZE SONG
An, Unusually Fine Showing of Ballads, Instru-
mental Numbers and Novelties Offered by
Popular Publisher for the New Season
Dealers Asked to Co-operate in Making Week
of October 8 a Notable One in Honor of
Popular Composer's Silver Anniversary
Has Just Issued "Gimme a Kiss, Mirandy,"
Which Won Award in Herald Contest
Chas. K. Harris has about the livest catalog
entering the fall season that he has had in
some years. It includes as usual a goodly num-
ber of ballads and to make things doubly inter-
esting he has several instrumental numbers and
novelty songs. One of the main reasons for
this year's success is the care Mr. Harris takes
in trying out a song before it is published. His
system consists of having one or more vaude-
ville singers place the song on their programs.
If this does not prove an "applause-getter" it
is immediately eliminated and only the genuine
hits are published. Consequently there is not a
dead one in the entire list of this season's
Harris songs.
Van & Schenck, the most popular boys in
vaudeville, have two big hits to their credit,
both of which are published by Mr. Harris, en-
titled "I Miss the Old Folks Now" and "The
More Love 1 Get the More I Want." Eddie
Leonard's new number which he will feature in
vaudeville is also in the list. It is called "Sweet-
ness" (Honey-Suckle Mine).
Others are
"Scratchin' the Gravel," a jazz number, and
"Dry Your Tears," a new waltz recently in-
troduced by Lucille Cavanagh with great suc-
cess.
Plans are now under way to have music deal-
ers throughout the country observe the week
of October 8 as "Harry Von Tilzer" week in
recognition of Mr. Von Tilzer's twenty-fifth an-
niversary as a song writer. The Harry Von
Tilzer Music Co. has prepared a large amount
of special advertising material for the use of
the dealers during the week, and the number of
requests that have come in for this advertising
matter indicates that a large number of dealers
will participate. One of the attractive bits for
window display is a small cardboard house and
the figure of an old woman sitting on the porch,
the display calling the attention to the song
"Just as Your Mother Was." The house is
sent to the dealer folded up in a compact pack-
age.
Another feature is a poster bearing a
large portrait of Mr. Von Tilzer, and under-
neath a list of his leading song successes.
$500 FOR COPYjOFJWULAR SONG
Copy of "It's a Long Way to Berlin" Brings
Record Price When Auctioned Off for Benefit
of Soldiers at New York Hippodrome
The benefit performance given for the Sol-
diers' Athletic Fund at the Hippodrome on
Sunday night realized over $18,000 according to
reports. One of the features of the evening
was the auctioning off of three copies of "It's
a Long Way to Berlin" (But We'll Get There),
which is published by Leo Feist, Inc. Joan
Sawyer was the auctioneer and the hrst copy,
which was autographed by a number of sol-
diers, was knocked down for the small sum of
$500. This establishes a record price for popu-
lar music. The second copy brought $50 and
Miss Sawyer purchased the third copy herself
for the same price. Edgar F. Bitner, general
manager of Leo Feist, Inc., says they hold no
rights to the privilege of disposing of copies of
popular music at that figure.
DEATH OF ALBERT G. SALMON
Prominent Musician Commits Suicide at Home
in Boston—Well-known as an Editor
BOSTON, MASS., September 24.—Albert G. Sal-
mon, a musician of wide reputation and com-
poser of note and who for a number of years
had acted as editor for a prominent Boston
music house, killed himself with poison here
last week. It is stated that Mr. Salmon feared
that he had contracted an incurable disease. He
was born in Southold, N. Y., in 1868, and in
1888 graduated from the New England Con-
servatory of Music. He studied under many
noted teachers both in this country and in
Europe.
PREMIERE OF ^THE RED CLOCK"
Edward B. Perkins' "The Red Clock," a musi-
cal comedy, by Silvio Hein and Schuyler Green,
opened in Buffalo Tuesday night. Carl Miller,
president of the Chas. Millegram Publishing
Co., who publish the score of the piece, attended
the opening performance. Mr. Miller is booked
to return to New York late this week. The
show will have its New York premiere about the
second week in October.
"THE
RIVIERAJJIRL"
PRODUCED
"The Riviera Girl," a musical comedy in three
acts, music by Emmerich Kalman, book and
lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse,
opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on
Tuesday night of this week.
A new war song with the unusual title,
"Gimme a Kiss, Mirandy," has just been pub-
lished by M. Witmark & Sons and bids fair
to become very popular. "Gimme a Kiss,
Mirandy" is the song that won the gold medal
offered by the New York Herald for the best
American successor to "Tipperary."
Such
judges as Reginald DeKoven, Victor Herbert,
Herbert Witherspoon, Sousa and Harry Barn-
hardt selected "Gimme a Kiss, Mirandy," from
about 600 manuscripts, and were unanimous in
giving it the medal and the coveted right of
succession to the most stupendously popular
song of its day. "Mirandy" is the work of
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rutherford, who are well-
known in society circles in Denver, Col. It is
a lively, simple ditty, easy to learn, easy to sing,
and appeals specially to the soldier because it
satisfies completely both his sense of rhythm
and his sentiments.
Barnyard Blues
"Dixieland Jazz Band"
THE BIG HIT OF THE
AS RECORDED BY THE
Victor Talking Machine Co., Record No. 18255
UNDER THE TITLE OF
Livery Stable Blues
» ki nxwdetfoit Victor A'ecard
Ho ism under !lw tith of*
MSTAHIBlliEf
This is the
Dealers are
subject to
damages
only Au-
for selling
thentic
or having
Edition of
this
copies
number
of the
Spurious
on the
Edition in
Market.
their stock.
Other Famous Jazz Numbers Bythe Famous-Dixie land Jazz Bond
TIGER R A G {Jazz One Step]
S E N S A T I O N ( J a z z One Step} <&o
A Temporary Injunction has been issued against the publisher of a Spurious Edition,
restraining him or his agents from publishing, printing, re-printing, selling or offering
for sale copies of "Livery Stable Blues" or any other imitation of the musical composi-
tion entitled "Barnyard Blues."
Special Introductory Price, 15c. a copy on the
genuine Edition "Barnyard Blues"
USE THIS COUPON
LEO FEIST, Inc., fitfSfi!. New York
Please send
Also send
Also send
copies "Barnyard Blues" at 15c. a copy.
copies for Band
j Special,
copies for Orchestra j 15c. each
Address
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CHAS. K. HARRIS' FALL CATALOG
OBSERVE "HARRY VON TILZER WEEK"
W1TMARK PUBLISHES PRIZE SONG
An, Unusually Fine Showing of Ballads, Instru-
mental Numbers and Novelties Offered by
Popular Publisher for the New Season
Dealers Asked to Co-operate in Making Week
of October 8 a Notable One in Honor of
Popular Composer's Silver Anniversary
Has Just Issued "Gimme a Kiss, Mirandy,"
Which Won Award in Herald Contest
Chas. K. Harris has about the livest catalog
entering the fall season that he has had in
some years. It includes as usual a goodly num-
ber of ballads and to make things doubly inter-
esting he has several instrumental numbers and
novelty songs. One of the main reasons for
this year's success is the care Mr. Harris takes
in trying out a song before it is published. His
system consists of having one or more vaude-
ville singers place the song on their programs.
If this does not prove an "applause-getter" it
is immediately eliminated and only the genuine
hits are published. Consequently there is not a
dead one in the entire list of this season's
Harris songs.
Van & Schenck, the most popular boys in
vaudeville, have two big hits to their credit,
both of which are published by Mr. Harris, en-
titled "I Miss the Old Folks Now" and "The
More Love 1 Get the More I Want." Eddie
Leonard's new number which he will feature in
vaudeville is also in the list. It is called "Sweet-
ness" (Honey-Suckle Mine).
Others are
"Scratchin' the Gravel," a jazz number, and
"Dry Your Tears," a new waltz recently in-
troduced by Lucille Cavanagh with great suc-
cess.
Plans are now under way to have music deal-
ers throughout the country observe the week
of October 8 as "Harry Von Tilzer" week in
recognition of Mr. Von Tilzer's twenty-fifth an-
niversary as a song writer. The Harry Von
Tilzer Music Co. has prepared a large amount
of special advertising material for the use of
the dealers during the week, and the number of
requests that have come in for this advertising
matter indicates that a large number of dealers
will participate. One of the attractive bits for
window display is a small cardboard house and
the figure of an old woman sitting on the porch,
the display calling the attention to the song
"Just as Your Mother Was." The house is
sent to the dealer folded up in a compact pack-
age.
Another feature is a poster bearing a
large portrait of Mr. Von Tilzer, and under-
neath a list of his leading song successes.
$500 FOR COPYjOFJWULAR SONG
Copy of "It's a Long Way to Berlin" Brings
Record Price When Auctioned Off for Benefit
of Soldiers at New York Hippodrome
The benefit performance given for the Sol-
diers' Athletic Fund at the Hippodrome on
Sunday night realized over $18,000 according to
reports. One of the features of the evening
was the auctioning off of three copies of "It's
a Long Way to Berlin" (But We'll Get There),
which is published by Leo Feist, Inc. Joan
Sawyer was the auctioneer and the hrst copy,
which was autographed by a number of sol-
diers, was knocked down for the small sum of
$500. This establishes a record price for popu-
lar music. The second copy brought $50 and
Miss Sawyer purchased the third copy herself
for the same price. Edgar F. Bitner, general
manager of Leo Feist, Inc., says they hold no
rights to the privilege of disposing of copies of
popular music at that figure.
DEATH OF ALBERT G. SALMON
Prominent Musician Commits Suicide at Home
in Boston—Well-known as an Editor
BOSTON, MASS., September 24.—Albert G. Sal-
mon, a musician of wide reputation and com-
poser of note and who for a number of years
had acted as editor for a prominent Boston
music house, killed himself with poison here
last week. It is stated that Mr. Salmon feared
that he had contracted an incurable disease. He
was born in Southold, N. Y., in 1868, and in
1888 graduated from the New England Con-
servatory of Music. He studied under many
noted teachers both in this country and in
Europe.
PREMIERE OF ^THE RED CLOCK"
Edward B. Perkins' "The Red Clock," a musi-
cal comedy, by Silvio Hein and Schuyler Green,
opened in Buffalo Tuesday night. Carl Miller,
president of the Chas. Millegram Publishing
Co., who publish the score of the piece, attended
the opening performance. Mr. Miller is booked
to return to New York late this week. The
show will have its New York premiere about the
second week in October.
"THE
RIVIERAJJIRL"
PRODUCED
"The Riviera Girl," a musical comedy in three
acts, music by Emmerich Kalman, book and
lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse,
opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on
Tuesday night of this week.
A new war song with the unusual title,
"Gimme a Kiss, Mirandy," has just been pub-
lished by M. Witmark & Sons and bids fair
to become very popular. "Gimme a Kiss,
Mirandy" is the song that won the gold medal
offered by the New York Herald for the best
American successor to "Tipperary."
Such
judges as Reginald DeKoven, Victor Herbert,
Herbert Witherspoon, Sousa and Harry Barn-
hardt selected "Gimme a Kiss, Mirandy," from
about 600 manuscripts, and were unanimous in
giving it the medal and the coveted right of
succession to the most stupendously popular
song of its day. "Mirandy" is the work of
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rutherford, who are well-
known in society circles in Denver, Col. It is
a lively, simple ditty, easy to learn, easy to sing,
and appeals specially to the soldier because it
satisfies completely both his sense of rhythm
and his sentiments.
Barnyard Blues
"Dixieland Jazz Band"
THE BIG HIT OF THE
AS RECORDED BY THE
Victor Talking Machine Co., Record No. 18255
UNDER THE TITLE OF
Livery Stable Blues
» ki nxwdetfoit Victor A'ecard
Ho ism under !lw tith of*
MSTAHIBlliEf
This is the
Dealers are
subject to
damages
only Au-
for selling
thentic
or having
Edition of
this
copies
number
of the
Spurious
on the
Edition in
Market.
their stock.
Other Famous Jazz Numbers Bythe Famous-Dixie land Jazz Bond
TIGER R A G {Jazz One Step]
S E N S A T I O N ( J a z z One Step} <&o
A Temporary Injunction has been issued against the publisher of a Spurious Edition,
restraining him or his agents from publishing, printing, re-printing, selling or offering
for sale copies of "Livery Stable Blues" or any other imitation of the musical composi-
tion entitled "Barnyard Blues."
Special Introductory Price, 15c. a copy on the
genuine Edition "Barnyard Blues"
USE THIS COUPON
LEO FEIST, Inc., fitfSfi!. New York
Please send
Also send
Also send
copies "Barnyard Blues" at 15c. a copy.
copies for Band
j Special,
copies for Orchestra j 15c. each
Address
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