Music Trade Review

AUGUST
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18, 1923
URGES L1VELV MUSIC FOR HVMNS
Former Popular Song Writer Discourses on
New Field of Endeavor-Snappy Music Ex­
pected to Boost Church Attendance
"Gospel hymns set to lively music, a sort
of c,lorified ragtime, instead of the traditional
tunes in vogue, will bring worshipers, new and
old, to the churches, S;tys the New York Amer­
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"Whisper a Prayer" his most successful ef­
fort in song, he and his wife cling to "He Loves
Even Me." Far different from the "Carrie" of
eighteen years ago, it is set to a ringing air that
holds the attention of the singers; proof, said
Lawrence, that church folk like their music with
a s,ving just like people who do not go to
church at all.
MAKING HEADWAY AS PUBLISHERS
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Scott Lawrence, a hYllln writer and nigh
a score of years ago known nationally as the
author of the ditty "Carrie" that was sung and
whistled all over the country, is the author or
the new departure in church musical services
and predicts its drawing power. He has more
than 100 songs and hymns, but his greatest
pride is in "He Loves Even Me." For it was
through that composition that he and his wife,
separated fourteen years, were brought to­
gether again.
More than eighteen years ago the name of
Scott Lawrence was known throughout the
country as the author of "Carrie." It had a tre
mendous sale and the chorus was as popular
as the most popular of the war songs. Law­
rence sang it himself in many of the plays in
which he appeared and well-known vaudeville
artists made it their own.
'Tis a long way in spirit and sentiment from
"Carrie" to "He Loves Even Me," but the writer
suddenly switched from vaudeville songs to
hymns. To make the change popular, he said
recently, he found it llec es sa ry to adapt the new
songs to music more lively than that to which
the standard hymns are written. His investiga­
tion, he said, proved to him that one of the
reasons that keep peopl<: from church is that
they have been "fed up" on the airs that go
with the old hymns and that they thrill.
\"Ihile many friends of the wriler consider
Richmond-Robbins Co, Accorded Higher Classi­
fication by M, p, p, A.
J\ccording to the latcst announcements of the
Music Publishers' Protective Association and
the American Society of Authors, Composers
and Publisherc;, the board of governors of those
organizations have voted to advance the classi­
fication of the publishing firm of Richmond­
Robbins, Inc. In the future this firm will be
rated Class "B" instead of Class "c."
The Richmond-Robbins organization has
made unusual headway in the past two years
and has entered the motion picture and concert
publication field in such an extensive manner
that it is now being looked upon as a standard
house by legitimate dealers.
ORCHESTRA TRAVELS VIA AIRPLANE
Specht's Organization Goes From London to
Paris in That Fashion, Playing En Route
Faul Specht and His Orchestra recently made
a trip to Paris across the English Channel from
l.ondon In it Handlcv-l'age airplane.
This
\\ a.S saiel to be the first time in the history of
aviation that an entire musical organization, the
size o r ;';p ech t 's, In s IIlade the trip. \V hile in
Hight the orchestra plaved several numbers
which were broadcastcd by the .Marconi wirclc.,s.
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BERLIN BRINGS OUT "TUT" SONG
"Three Thousand Years Ago," by Gerber and
Egan, to Be Published iby That House
There have been several King Tut songs and
at least two of th'''l1 had some popularity. 1. 1 p
to the present time, however, they have not
])rov 0 d overwhelming SLlccesses. It is somewhat
surprising, therefore, to see a large publishing
organization accept a new song carrying a ""fut"
title. The fact that Irving Berlin, Inc., will
publish Alex Gerber and Jack Egan's "Three
Thousand Years .\go," a comedy song of the
"Tut" style, speaks well for its merit.
In this new offering the writers have tried to
make comparisons between the present and an­
cient Egyptian days. The result is a comedy
song with a long list of extra verses, five of
which are reproduced in the piano copies. The
\'00 I rendition of the number has been re­
served to the team or IvIurray and Alan, now
playing Keith vaudeville.
SOME STRONG REMICK NUMBERS
Jerome H, Remick & Co. have released a new
song' by nilly Rose and Jimmy Monaco, en­
titled "That Big Blond Mamma of Mine." Other
songs from the Remick catalog which will re­
ceive a professional campaign are: "Y Oll Better
Stop Messin' Around"; "I'm a Lonesome Cry
Dab}"; "Somebody's vVrong"; "Tweet Tweet,"
a new number by Egbert Van Alstyne and
Haven Gillespie; "First, Last and Always," and
"Do You, Don't You, vVill You, Won't You?"
_\mong the new songs added to the catalog
of Leo Feist, Inc., is a number that had its
u r ig in:t l .' !lc eess in Chicago, entitled, "No, .0Jo,
Nora." It is by Gus Kahn, Ted Fiorito and
Frn;c ErclllT;ln.
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