Music Trade Review

THE
OCTOBER 6, 1923
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
65
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"SAW MILL RIVER ROAD" DRIVE
Local Dealers Report Demand for Sheet Music
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Leo Feist, Inc., to Conduct N ationa! Campaign
on Number During October
POllTI.AND, ORE., September 28.-·-Miss l\'1aybcl1c
Elliott, manager of the sh eet music d epa rtm ent
of the Seiberling-Lucas Music Co., says th at
sin ce the seas on has ope ned the sa le of s heet
Illusic in h er dep art m en t has materiall y in­
creased an d th a t am ong the b est sell ers at the
present tim e arc th e Sherman, Cla y publi ca­
tion, "T he West, th e N est a nd You," and
Forster's walt z, "Wh en th e Clouds H av e Van­
i,hed." Bu t good saks are a lso being made of
"Love Tal es," Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake"
and " Te ll Me a Sto ry, " published by Feist,
I nc., and th e Jerome H . Remick numbers, "Big
Blonde :vI am a," "Firs t, La s t and .\lways" and
"My J .a ely an d Me. " This department had a
v is it from Bill Ja cobs, representing the Irving
Be rlin publicati o ns. He had a guo d li st of new
numb ers , a lllon g th em "That O ld Gang of
Mine," "Indiana M oo n" a nd "Love, I lIe a r You
Calling." Mi ss Eliott's department was a lso
v is it ed during the week b y Bob Cole, of Sta rk
& Cowe n, and by :l ick La n g, the representative
of lhe B. F. Wood Publi s hin g Co.
Jay VV' ilmark rec ently returned from an un­
uwally s lI ccessful trip West and brought back
w ith him abundant evi d ence of the tremendou s
popular interest in M. Witmark & Sons' pub­
licati on s. Orders for the leading successes both
in th e Popular-Standard-Pictorial numb ers and
the Witmark Bla ck and White series were
prodigious. A mo ng the popular numbers the
leaders a r e "B ebe," whi ch is a fo x-t rot success.
Other ac ti ve numbers are "Midnight Rose" and
"Lo ng Lost Mamma," whi ch is especia lly big in
th e West; "Wh en Will .the S un Shine for M e'''
a nd th e lates t successes, "I'm Sittin g Pretty in
a Pretty Littl e City" and "That Bran' New Gal
of Mine." Both in Chic ago a nd Detroit :-'1r.
V/itm ark found that already the new rea rran ge­
ment a nd organization of th e professional de­
partments of the firm had bo rne remarkable
result s, reflected in eno rmous ly ac tiv e demand
a nd a fine co-op era ti ve enthusiasm on the part
of th e trad e ge ner a lly.
Th e October campaign ina ugurat ed by Leo
Feist, Inc., 011 the so ng "Saw Mill River Road,"
whi ch is to include a wi nd o\\ di spl ay com peti­
tion in which num erou s d ea lers thr o ug hout th e
U ni ted S tat es and Can ada are to mak e full
window s ho wings of the a bove s uccess fu t~o n g,
has aro use d unu su al interest in trad_e circles.
This s ucc essf ul numb er will have a thirty-day
cam pai g n of exp loita tion in w'hich the vari o us
bra nc h offices a nd numerou s rep res enta tive s of
l-he Fei~t organization will take pa rt.
Hundreds of d ea lers throu gho ut the "C"nited
St a te's have alr ead y sig nified their intention s
of maki ng full window showings of "Saw Mill
River Ro ad," th e objective bein g a part in
numer ous pri ze s, to tal in g over $500. "Saw :vIill
River R oa d" is one of the most succes s ful popu­
lar so ngs in th e Fei s t Fall ca talo g. Thi s num ­
ber originally was one of th e outstanding suc­
cesses in the musical s how, "Gl ory," a nd de sp ite
th e fact th a t th e s h ow closed, th e number was
of such m er itori o us character that the sales and
professional offices of Leo Feist, Inc., d eci ded
to ex ploit it o n ' a wide scale.
MUSIC MEN HOLD 'FALL MEETING
Hearst, Mu s ic Publishers, Ltd., ha s been s uc­
cessfully featuring the two balla ds, "Wonderful
Child" and "Beautiful Ros e." Th ese numbers
have bee n placed in the rep er toire of a long
li st of vaudeville performers, including Jack
Sherman , the \vell-known baritone. The pro­
fessional department of the above company ha s
decided to ma ke these two songs the fea tur e
i, sues of a Fall ca mpa ign am o ng singers.
The Association o f Mu sic M en held it ~ first
me eting of th e Fall se as o n on Tuesday eve­
. ning of last we ek :1t th e H ote l Ri chmond, New
Yo rk Cit y. About twenty-five members of thi s
organization of salesmen attended. Henry C.
Schulz, president of the or ga ni za tion, occ up ie d
the cha ir and ga ve a brief resume of th e Asso­
cia tion's activiti es.
William J. Glassmacher,
vi ce-pres id ent, sug ges ted the organizin g of a n
orc hes tra co mposed of Association member s.
The ma jority of the membership is quite ve n;a ­
til e in p lay in g a nu m ber of in qr umen ts .
Consult the Univ.ersaI Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements "are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Big
Demand for Witmark
Throughout Entire \~lest
HEARST FEATURED BALLADS
BROADCASTS JACOBS=BOND NUMBERS
Frank E. K nee la nd, trav eli ng representative
of the Bos to n Mu sic Co. and a well-known bari­
tone, recently broadcast ed from the WMAQ
station, La Salle H otel, Chicago, a numb er of
<;ongs fro m th e catalog of Ca rrie-Ja cobs- Bond,
includin g th e wel1-known "Perfect Day."
"KEEP TURNING" BROADCASTED
The Red Son g Boo k Co., Chi cago, Ill., pub­
lisher of "Keep Turning," a popular fo x -trot,
has linked up thi s number with the pro g ram s
of seve ral broadc ast in g sta tion s. In addition,
th e publisher is carrying on an exploitation
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"KEEP TURNiNG "