Music Trade Review

THE
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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
OCTOBER
6. 1923
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YODEL SONGS NEVER SEEM TO LOSE THEIR POPULARITY
Characteristic Tyrolean Style of Singing Steady Favorite With the Music-buying Public-Yodel
Attractive Feature of New Belwin Waltz, "Merry-Go-Round"
Sam
A famous poet once said, " Lov e is old, but
ye t ever new." Th e same phrase could ju st l)
be applied t o the old Tyr olean s tyle of singing
"The Yodel."
Reviewing th e va riou" yode l son gs which ha ve
ga ined popularity in the United State s in the
past t\v enty-five ye ars, w e may say that out
of the m any of these which the American so ng
market offered one or two di s tin c t yodel m e l­
o dies have ga ined popularity a nd have estab­
lish ed th emse lve s in the grace of the American
publi c to an exte nt that no matter wh e n and
why th ey are publicly produced they meet w ith
approval..
The yodel song, popular in /\m er ica to-day.
is o f a characteristic natur e, su ch as "Sleep.
Baby, Sleep," "Emmet's Lullaby" or " Hi Le,
Hi Lo," e t c., although the yodel has bee n
used effe ctively as a m inor part of a song. At
the tim e these older yode l songs were in vog ue,
lhe sa xop hone, Amcrica's famou s dan ce orche s­
tra in s trum en t, was pra c ticall y unknown. With
the popularity of th e saxop hon e so tre men­
dously es tabli s hed an d cons idering the po ss i-
bilit ies th e charac teri s ti c yodel offers from a
Illusical s tandpoint, we beli eve th at the time ha s
now come when th e yodel has a right to be com­
mer ciali zed in a more modern form.
Belwin, Inc. , has re ce ntl y publi shed a walt z
<.;ntitled "Merry-Go -Round." It is a character­
is tic, melodious wa ltz number with an ori g inal
verst and lyr ically developing th e yo de l in a
sens ible manner. The fir st four bars of th e
c horu s are a yodel, the nex t four bars are lyr­
icall y translating what this yodel m ea ns and so
on throughout the entire c horu s of th e flew
J.>e lwin number.
Th e dance orchestration is ar rang ed with a
yode l inte rlude, g ivin h: the saxo phon e an oppor­
tlmit y to· perform in a manner neve r heard of
by th e American dance public. The possibili­
ties which thc saxophone offers in this par­
ticular field ar e wide.
Every yo d el is of a m e lodiou s nature and
sho uld be we lcom ed by the ,\mcri can dan ce
orchestra, as we ll as by the public, as it con­
stitutes an inno va tion and a d epa rtur e from
the pr ese nt-d ay dan ce mu sic .
AK RO N, 0., Oc tober J.- ·One of the most novel
and complete music s tor es in thi s se ction of
the cit y was opened a t 81 So uth Howard stree t,
thi~ c ity, r ece ntly by Sa rn Smolin under the
titl e of the Entertain e rs Song S hop .
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Smolin is an accomplished musician a nd has
ap peared frequently in va ude v ille with hi s or­
chestra. .'\ complete stoc k of the .l atest popu­
la r s he et mu sic, as well as orchestrations and
the re cog ni zed clas s ica l edit ion s, is han dled in
the sto re, which is a lread y winning a full meas­
ure of su ccess.
NEW VIOLIN DUO ISSUED
IRVING MILLS IN CANADA
The New Yo rk Co urier is th e publi s her of a
" Duo for O ne \ ' iolin," adapted on the th e me
of Yradirr's "La Paloma" and dedi ca ted to Frit z
Kreisler. In its original manus<:ript form as
dedic a ted to Fritz Kreisler the author did not,
of co urse, employ an y s pecial s igns or s ugg est
any partic ular fingering as relating to it s per ­
fo rman ce, but since its publication for general
distribution the composer ha s added a very
det ai led fingering syste m, s ipls, indi ca tion s, etc..,
whi c h appear o n tlt e inn e r front co \'er. To
those intereste d in a n unu sua l work . this "Duo
for O ne Violin" has unu s ual possibilities.
Irvin g- Mills, vice-president of Jack Mill s,
Inc., is aw ay on a trade trip which will include
a ten weeks' trip throu g h Canada and th e
:vliddle We<:t of th e U nited Sta t es. While a\vay
he will feature "Love Is Ju s t a Flower,"
"Havana," "Just a Gid That lvlen f.'orget" a nd
., Down-hearted Blues."
"YAWNING" AND ITS RESULTS
In
"Ya w nin g," the new Tr vin g rerlin, Inc., nov­
elty fox-trot written by ~Iilt Ha gen and .'\l ex.
Gerber, was r ece ntly tried o ut in va ud evi lle ,,,ith
peculiar re su lts. The so ng is, in reality, a yaw n
set to music and a yawn 's co nta g iou s, with th e
result that th e act singin g the song ha d mo s t
of the audience in yawns. The ya wn was, how­
ever, followed by applause.
Cora ' ". H a rrin gto n, Win s ton-Sal elll , N. c.,
is the composer and publi s her of "Th e re ssa."
"KEEP TURNINC';: DON'T HESITATE
LONG To DECIDE; .
KEEP TURNI N6, No MATTER
WHAT THE MUSIC STAY DIGNIFIED.
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NEW SONG SHOP IN AKRON, O.
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Pianists -Attention
Now Ready
Zez Conlrey's Modern Course
Novelty Piano Playing
Containi ng more tha n :jO pages of ex­
planations of figures and breaks u.sed
by the famo\J~ composer in his record­
ings of , rictor rc(:ords and Q R S piano
rolls', as well as a previously unpub­
lished syncopated waltz solo. a.(ld I\'lr.
(;onfrcy'~ con ce ptions o( some or the
old fa.vorites.
Endorsed by
J.ee S . Roberts
Pete Wendling
Victor Arden
Ua", Hortlander
Phil Olunan,etc.
For Students and
Advance d Piani s ts
as ,veil a.s Profes-
siona.ls. Teachers,
Con s (" r v n tor iest
etc.
PRICE $1.5() NET
JACK MILLS, Inc.
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~nJSlC Pt;BLISHERS
. • Jael< 1\1I11$ Building
148-150 W. 46th St., New York. N. Y.
Smolin, Well-known Orchestra Leader,
Opens the Entertainers Song Shop
BERLIN NUMBER WINS ATTENTION
There wa s r ece ntly added to the catalog of
Ir ving Be rlin, Inc., a new song e ntitl ed "No­
body Ca n Love M e Like My Old Tomato Ca n,"
w hi c h ha s made an impression with a number
of dramatic crit ics on New York daili es , in­
cludin g S. J ay Kaufman, who writes a column
for the Evening Te le g ra m. In his co lumn, in
on e of th e re cent is s ue s of the Telegram, he
car ried a [ull chorus of the above song and
made so me ve ry po intrd comm e nts regarding
the poss ibilitie s and the popularity of thi s iss ne.