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THE
AUGUST 9, 1924
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
39
IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Conducted By V. D. Walsh
New Berlin Number, "Charley My Boy,"
Has Every Indication of Popular Hit
First Rendering by Russo and Fiorito's Oriole Orchestra at Edgewater Beach, Chicago, Makes
Title a Catchword in That City—Publishers Begin Big Eastern Campaign
1J*OR the past three years Russo and Fiorito's the prominent people of Chicago and their
Oriole Orchestra has been the feature of the visitors.
Beach Walk of the Edgewater Beach Hotel,
About two years ago the Oriole Orchestra
Chicago, Til. in addition, this musical corn- achieved the importance through the wide pub-
licity obtained by its musical renditions, of
actually making the popular successes for Chi-
cago and vicinity. It holds the record of taking
novelty numbers in fox-trot form and giving
them a Middle West presentation that brings
responses to the music counters in the form of
volume sales in four weeks' time, or less. Its
first success along this line was "Toot, Toot,
Tootsie," followed later by "No, No, Nora." Its
most recent achievement is the success obtained
by "Charley, My Boy," introduced by this or-
chestra before the lyrics were completed.
"Charley, My Boy," in musical form with a
few catch lines, was rendered for a number of
nights with a singing introduction and finale
ending with "Oh, Charley, My Boy," with the
result that the lines became a by-word in Chi-
cago territory. This, together with a luring
melody, created calls. A representative of Irv-
ing Berlin, Inc., induced the writers to finish
the song in lyrical form, the results of which
were rushed to print, and the publisher is now
placing copies before the trade. In the mean-
rlin, Inc.
time a big Eastern campaign has been inaug-
L• t n r n_s
urated by the Berlin organization, laying par-
NI«w Y o r k
ticular stress on New York and Atlantic City.
bination is nationally popular as Brunswick The outlook for the number's quick popularity
record artists. The Beach Walk, a dance floor on a national scale is most promising.
holding over 5,000 people, is one of Chicago's
show places. Tt is filled to capacity nightly with
CHARLEY MY BOY
Maude Fulton Writes
Descriptive Sketch Series
What Shall I Give My Pupil?
To Strengthen the Weaker Fingers—To Develop the Legato
Touch, or the Staccato Touch—To Use as a Study in Wrist Work,
Octave Work, Left Hand Melody, Crossing the Hands—and
Dozens of Other Problems?
You Will Find the Answer in the List of
MUSIC CLASSIFIED
ACCORDING TO
PIANO TECHNIQUE
From the Newly and Thoroughly Revised
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WORLD-FAMOUS
M •KlNLEY
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EDITION OF
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TEACHING MUSIC
Selected by
STURKOW RYDER,
Celebrated Teacher. Composer and Concert Pianist,
and HENRY S. SAWYER,
Well Known Music Critic.
EDITORIAL STAFF of the McKINLEY PUBLICATIONS
Frederick A. Stock (Editor-in-Chief "Music in the Home"
Edition), Anne Shaw Faulkner (Music Chairman, General
Federation of Women's Clubs). Sturkow Ryder, Victor Gar-
wood, Allen Spencer, Clarence Eddy, Arthur Olaf Andersen,
Allen Ray Carpenter, Henry S. Sawyer and Others.
Send for Catalog of "One Thousand and One" Piano Selections.
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
1501-1515 E. 55th St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Copyright, 1924, by McKinley Music Co.
Well-known Comedienne Appears in Sherman,
Clay & Co. Catalog With Series Entitled
"Water Front Sketches"
Maude Fulton, the writer and comedienne,
is probably known to theatregoers from coast
to coast. It will be somewhat surprising to
them to know that she really has unusual talent
as a composer of charming music. Sherman,
Clay & Co. have issued a series of seven sketches
published only in collection under the title
"Water Front Sketches." All of them are from
the pen of Maude Fulton, and the titles include
"The Water Front," "Fog," "The North Wind,"
"Sea Gulls," "Sunset," "Home" and "Bon Voy-
age."
An introduction by the publishers to
these numbers is well worth repeating as of
interest to the many friends of Miss Fulton.
From the windows of her roof-top studio
overlooking San Francisco Bay Miss Fulton has
observed things; how, for instance, the north
wind batters the bare cliffs in late autumn; how
the busy harbor looks and sounds at a warm
noontide; these, the squabbling of sea gulls, the
yellow sunsets, are translated by her into pic-
turesque melodic strains—vignettes, if you will,
but still faithful and vivid reproductions of
waterfront life as she sees it.
On intimate terms with the sky and the sea
she has noted her musical impressions of them,
not in sweeping symphonies but in little frag-
mentary harmonies, light tone-thoughts caught
and washed in against a beloved canvas.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
SONGS THAT SELL
—
What'll I Do? (New)
Lazy (New)
Oh, Baby (Don't Say No—Say Maybe)
Mindin' My Bus'ness
Cover Me Up With the Sunshine of
Virginia
She's Everybody's Sweetheart
—
—
What's Today Got to Do With Tomorrow?
I Can't Get the One I Want
Charley, My Boy
Where Is That Old Girl of Mine?
—
If the Rest of the World Don't Want You
Nobody Loves You Like I Do
Old Familiar Faces
That Old Gang of Mine
Indiana Moon
Driftwood
Nobody's Child
Yawning
X Universal Dance Folio No. 7
Special Edition
Peterson's Ukulele Method
World's Favorite Songs
Lundin's Tenor Banjo Method
Song Gems from Irving Berlin's Third Annual
MUSIC BOX REVUE
An Orange Grove in California
The Waltz of Long Ago
Little Butterfly
Learn to Do the Strut
Outstanding Song Hits from
TOPSY and EVA
Rememb'ring
I Never Had a Mammy
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
1607 Broadway, New York
Handy Regains Sight
W. C. Handy, head of Handy Bros. Music
Co., Inc., composer of "Memphis Blues," "Beale
Street Blues" and a number of other successes,
who has often been given the credit for being
the originator of "blues" songs, has regained
his vision after being almost totally blind for
a period of two years. Some of his newer com-
positions are achieving importance through the
fact that they carry an entirely new style and
have been introduced under the name, "The
Gouge Series."
Plays Remick Songs
PORTLAND, ORE., August 2.—At the Columbia
Theatre, one of Portland's most popular movij^
houses, Frank Zudnicb, syncopating accordionist,
played two Jerome H. Remick songs, "Manda-
lay" and "It Had to Be You," and twt> Sher-
man, .Clay & Co. productions, "Hoo Doo Man"
and "Oriental Love Dreams."