Music Trade Review
Issue: 1922 Vol. 75 N. 4 - Page 42
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38
THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JULY 22, 1922
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
DONLAN ON A VACATION
NEW AID TO COMPOSERS
Secretary of National Association Taking Much-
needed Rest—Future Plans Not Decided
Machine Writes Notes as Pianist Plays Them on
Keyboard
Thomas Donlan, who was recently elected sec-
retary of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers, has been taking a much-needed
rest in the Adirondack Mountains. In a recent
letter to The Review he^ states that the climate
there is delightful and he contemplates looking
over the Association records while on his vaca-
tion. Mr. Donlan, who was formerly associated
with the Sam Fox Pub. Co., will not return to the
music publishing field for some weeks. He is at
present considering a number of offers from large
publishing houses, t>ut is in no rush to make a
decision as to the future.
Mr. Donlan has had much experience in the
music publishing field. For three years he was
connected with the importing department of
Theodore Presser and for two years he handled
correspondence with schools and teachers, as well
as sheet music advertising for the Oliver Ditson
Co. He was at one time agent for the Vincent
Music Co., of London, being American manager
of that company for six years, until it was pur-
chased by G. Schirmer, Inc. For many years Mr.
Donlan was on the road and has covered the
country and introduced various catalogs from
coast to coast as well as making three trips to
Europe.
A recent item appeared in the Boston Herald
illustrated with a photographic reproduction of
"a new musical typewriter," in which a young
woman was shown operating the instrument. The
musical typewriter is a combination of two de-
vices, one of which mechanically transposes while
the other writes down the music being played
and is said to save much time and annoyance to
the composer. The mechanism consists of a
portable keyboard that may be superimposed on
any piano and a typewriter device which oper-
ates in such a way that the keys of the piano
are indirectly the keys of the machine itself, so
that as one plays the music is immediately tran-
scribed on paper.
The piano is not a necessity, however, with this
device, since the contrivance can be placed just
as well on a desk or table. In this case the silent
keyboard is played and the result in composition
is recorded on the roller.
C. H. BOOKER COMING HERE
President
of Memphis Concern May Open
Branch Office in New York
SONGS THAT SELL
Irving Berlin's Latest,
Greatest Song Hit
Some Sunny Day
KIcky-Koo
Kicky-Koo
You for Me—Me for You
Don't Bring Me Posies
It's Sltoesies I Need
Poor Little Me
You Can Have Every Light On Broadway
(Give Me One Little Light at Home)
Come Along
From Zlegleld's Follies of 1922
NEW SONGS NOW READY
Truly
Night
My Cradle Melody
While the Years Roll By
Abie's Lullaby
Rose ot Bombay
Charles H. Booker, president of the Yancy &
Booker Music Co., Memphis, Tenn., announces a
business trip to New York City, where he is
NELSON SUES STASNY CO.
scheduled to arrive on August 15. Mr. Booker
Edward Nelson, composer of "Pretty Kitty not only heads the music publishing firm which
Kelly," recently sued the A. J. Stasny Music Co. bears his name, but is also the writer of several
for $1,000 in the Municipal Court of New York novel songs, including "West Texas Blues," "A
City. The Stasny organization, through its at- Woman Gets Tired of One Man All the Time" and
torney, denied all the charges in the complaint "The Cootie Crawl." The object of Mr. Booker's
trip is to establish his publications in the New
and countersued for $150.
The Melody Song Hit ofl the Year
York territory and to open up a New York office
of the Yancy & Booker Music Co. Among other
EXPLOITINGJTWO NUMBERS
things, Mr. Booker has quite a reputation for
Enoch & Sons recently released a new ballad, playing the saxophone.
called "Trifles," the words of which are by Caro-
line L. Sumner and the music by Frank H. Grey.
NEW ORCHESTRA A HIT
The number is being exploited in conjunction
Much comment has been created in orchestra
with another Grey number, entitled "At Even-
1607 Broadway, New York
circles through the success of the new combina-
time."
tion now playing at Pelham Heath Inn, New Sam Coslow has written a lyric for Zez Con-
Consult the universal Want Directory of York. This orchestra, under the direction of frey's instrumental novelty, "Kitten on the Keys."
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted Joseph Friedlander, is known as the Castle Club Jack Mills, inc., the publisher, has just released
free of charge for men who desire positions. Orchestra.
the vocal edition.
Just a Little Love Song
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
/I5ongThat5elb.Suryflayed andAdverfisedJromQoash°Coast
i
I
Two OtherBi*9 Sellers
Suppose The Rose Were You * Dangerous Blues
j#re Sfoii One gfthe LuckyDealerfReapingaGolden Han/est/rom
the Sa/egfThese Numbers-IfNot, Why Not ? The Demand Is There.
J.WjLtfKmsSohfs'f\us\c
Co.~KAi/SAsCnry,rto.
38
THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JULY 22, 1922
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
DONLAN ON A VACATION
NEW AID TO COMPOSERS
Secretary of National Association Taking Much-
needed Rest—Future Plans Not Decided
Machine Writes Notes as Pianist Plays Them on
Keyboard
Thomas Donlan, who was recently elected sec-
retary of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers, has been taking a much-needed
rest in the Adirondack Mountains. In a recent
letter to The Review he^ states that the climate
there is delightful and he contemplates looking
over the Association records while on his vaca-
tion. Mr. Donlan, who was formerly associated
with the Sam Fox Pub. Co., will not return to the
music publishing field for some weeks. He is at
present considering a number of offers from large
publishing houses, t>ut is in no rush to make a
decision as to the future.
Mr. Donlan has had much experience in the
music publishing field. For three years he was
connected with the importing department of
Theodore Presser and for two years he handled
correspondence with schools and teachers, as well
as sheet music advertising for the Oliver Ditson
Co. He was at one time agent for the Vincent
Music Co., of London, being American manager
of that company for six years, until it was pur-
chased by G. Schirmer, Inc. For many years Mr.
Donlan was on the road and has covered the
country and introduced various catalogs from
coast to coast as well as making three trips to
Europe.
A recent item appeared in the Boston Herald
illustrated with a photographic reproduction of
"a new musical typewriter," in which a young
woman was shown operating the instrument. The
musical typewriter is a combination of two de-
vices, one of which mechanically transposes while
the other writes down the music being played
and is said to save much time and annoyance to
the composer. The mechanism consists of a
portable keyboard that may be superimposed on
any piano and a typewriter device which oper-
ates in such a way that the keys of the piano
are indirectly the keys of the machine itself, so
that as one plays the music is immediately tran-
scribed on paper.
The piano is not a necessity, however, with this
device, since the contrivance can be placed just
as well on a desk or table. In this case the silent
keyboard is played and the result in composition
is recorded on the roller.
C. H. BOOKER COMING HERE
President
of Memphis Concern May Open
Branch Office in New York
SONGS THAT SELL
Irving Berlin's Latest,
Greatest Song Hit
Some Sunny Day
KIcky-Koo
Kicky-Koo
You for Me—Me for You
Don't Bring Me Posies
It's Sltoesies I Need
Poor Little Me
You Can Have Every Light On Broadway
(Give Me One Little Light at Home)
Come Along
From Zlegleld's Follies of 1922
NEW SONGS NOW READY
Truly
Night
My Cradle Melody
While the Years Roll By
Abie's Lullaby
Rose ot Bombay
Charles H. Booker, president of the Yancy &
Booker Music Co., Memphis, Tenn., announces a
business trip to New York City, where he is
NELSON SUES STASNY CO.
scheduled to arrive on August 15. Mr. Booker
Edward Nelson, composer of "Pretty Kitty not only heads the music publishing firm which
Kelly," recently sued the A. J. Stasny Music Co. bears his name, but is also the writer of several
for $1,000 in the Municipal Court of New York novel songs, including "West Texas Blues," "A
City. The Stasny organization, through its at- Woman Gets Tired of One Man All the Time" and
torney, denied all the charges in the complaint "The Cootie Crawl." The object of Mr. Booker's
trip is to establish his publications in the New
and countersued for $150.
The Melody Song Hit ofl the Year
York territory and to open up a New York office
of the Yancy & Booker Music Co. Among other
EXPLOITINGJTWO NUMBERS
things, Mr. Booker has quite a reputation for
Enoch & Sons recently released a new ballad, playing the saxophone.
called "Trifles," the words of which are by Caro-
line L. Sumner and the music by Frank H. Grey.
NEW ORCHESTRA A HIT
The number is being exploited in conjunction
Much comment has been created in orchestra
with another Grey number, entitled "At Even-
1607 Broadway, New York
circles through the success of the new combina-
time."
tion now playing at Pelham Heath Inn, New Sam Coslow has written a lyric for Zez Con-
Consult the universal Want Directory of York. This orchestra, under the direction of frey's instrumental novelty, "Kitten on the Keys."
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted Joseph Friedlander, is known as the Castle Club Jack Mills, inc., the publisher, has just released
free of charge for men who desire positions. Orchestra.
the vocal edition.
Just a Little Love Song
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
/I5ongThat5elb.Suryflayed andAdverfisedJromQoash°Coast
i
I
Two OtherBi*9 Sellers
Suppose The Rose Were You * Dangerous Blues
j#re Sfoii One gfthe LuckyDealerfReapingaGolden Han/est/rom
the Sa/egfThese Numbers-IfNot, Why Not ? The Demand Is There.
J.WjLtfKmsSohfs'f\us\c
Co.~KAi/SAsCnry,rto.
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