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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 81 N. 1 - Page 43

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THE
JULY 4, 1925
MUSIC
TRADE
43
REVIEW
IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
Conducted By V. D. Walsh
Victor Herbert's "Kiss Me Again" Love
Theme of New Film of the Same Title
SONGS THAT SELL
Warner Bros.' New Release Featuring Marie Prevost and Monte Blue Gives Opportunity to
Link Up Song—Witmark Issues Special Souvenir Edition of This Number
'^J'O melody is more inseparably associated
with the name of the late Victor Herbert
than that of "Kiss Me Again." It will live for-
ever and has helped to make Victor Herbert
immortal. One of the finest tributes ever paid
to any song or melody, and one that recognizes
the national significance of it, was recently
familiar melody is bound to enhance the charm
of the film, and neither the producers of the
picture nor the publishers of the song, M.
Witmark & Sons, have lost any opportunity of
co-operating in the most effective manner pos-
sible to make the tie-up complete and to the
last degree effective. The preliminary publicity
work done by both concerns has been unusually
attractive and, exhaustive, and music dealers
will certainly take advantage of the inevitably
increased sales that are bound to result.
M. Witmark & Sons have issued a special
souvenir edition of "Kiss Me Again" for the
run of the picture, covering, of course, a period
of from two to three years. This is in addition
£ovc Theme for the
to the regular issue in various keys of The Wit-
WARNER BROS
CLASSIC OF TKE SCK1&N
mark Black and White Series, where "Kiss
• KISS MU AGAIN"
Me Again" stands at the top of a notable lisi
of favorites. Attractive counter and window
mm IMTSCII
placards are also available and the wise dealer
1> RODUCTJU N
MARIE PRKVCXST
can avail himself of the extraordinarily wide
ami MONTE BLUK jjt^^i
choice of phonograph discs and player rolls fea-
turing "Kiss Me Again." Altogether there are
fourteen or fifteen vocal records available, in-
cluding those made by Galli-Curci, Mabel Gar-
Cyricby
rison, May Petersen and Rosa Ponzelle. There
HENRY BLOSSOM
are at least twenty different instrumental rec-
ords of- the same composition to choose from;
W T O R HERBERT
while the same number of rolls have been is-
M WITMARK &SONS
NEW YORK
sued by the various piano roll manufacturers.
offered by the American Society of Composers, With all this wealth of material, music dealers
Authors and Publishers. The Society has re- should have little difficulty in commanding tre-
produced the complete melody of the refrain mendously effective displays and greatly in-
of "Kiss Me Again" as the ornamental and ap- creased sales for one of America's finest and
propriate border for the new membership most favorite songs, particularly as "Kiss Me
certificates it issues. "Kiss Me Again" is Vic- Again," the film, looks like a real success.
tor Herbert's undying and choicest gift to a
world on which he bestowed lavishly the many
gems of music he created.
And now "Kiss Me Again" is to be still fur-
E. B. Marks Music Co. has secured the song
ther enshrined in the hearts and memories of
America through the medium of the screen. success from the 1925 edition of the "Grand
Warner Bros, are about to release their big Street Follies." This song is entitled "Glory,
seven-reel photoplay under the title of "Kiss Glory, Glory" (I Want to be Glorified). The
Me Again." This is an Ernst Lubitsch produc- number has received wide comment from met-
tion featuring Marie Prevost and Monte Blue. ropolitan critics and it bears indications of
While there is no connection whatever between being an unusual success.
this feature film and Victor Herbert's master-
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
piece of song, yet it was inevitable that "Kiss
Me Again" should be chosen as the love theme The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
for the picture whose title it bore. Such a free of charge for men who desire positions.
Marks Gets "Glory" Song
I MISS ,M\ SWISS
/
AMidhty Blue
Fox Trot Son^ ^
When You and I Were Seventeen
Yearning
Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
Ukulele Lady
Oh, Mabel
All Alone


Listening
Show Me the Way
AH Aboard for Heaven
Please Be Good to My Old Girl
Hot Tamale Molly
My Sweetie Turned Me Down
One Night Like This
Marie, Marie, Marie
What'U I Do?
Suite Sixteen
Summer Nights

BOOKS THAT SELL

STRUM IT WITH CRUMIT—Songs for
Ukulele
TIDDLE DE UKES — Comic Songs for
the Ukulele
Universal Dance Folio No. 9 (New)
Peterson's Ukulele Method
World's Favorite Songs
4th MUSIC BOX REVUE, 1925
In the Shade of a Sheltering Tree
Tell Her in the Springtime
Tokio Blues
DIXIE TO BROADWAY
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind
Dixie Dreams
Hits Irom TOPSY and EVA
Rememb'ring
1 Never Had a Mammy
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
1607 Broadway, New York
5bx Trot
Melody With u
Great Dance Rhythm
\r/
Ij L.WOLFE GILBERTS ABEL BAER.
Introduced in
RAYMOND EGAN
/RICHARD WHITIf
.
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AL SHERMAN
BEN BE&NIE.
BALIEFFS
%/CHAUVE SOURIS'' -1
You
Can't
Go
Wrong
With
Any
uerite
FEIST
Solid

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