Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 83 N. 23 - Page 40
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The Music Trade Review
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Walter Donaldson, a Song Writer Who
Writes Successes Season After Season
The Record of One of the Most Prominent of Those Who Supply the American Public With Its
Popular Music—One That Would Be Hard to Excel
T'S quite possible and has been done—that is
a song writer to write a lot of numbers
each season. To write a lot of successes, how-
ever, is an entirely different matter. And to
write many successes season after season is still
another subject. It has, of course, been done
but we know of no one who has performed bet-
ter in this phase of music writing than Walter
Donaldson. Donaldson, by the way, off and on,
I for
for such a gala event was chosen on its merit
alone. It was necessary that it be a part of a
program that would establish new standards
for photoplay music and in an atmosphere that
would meet the critical taste and ears of the
general public, the photoplay industry, the
music trade and the sharp-tongued newspaper
critics. It seems to have done all this because
in many of the reports of the opening of the
© LtO FEIST
"What a Man," the name of one of his songs.
Among his latest offerings, now being cur-
rently exploited, are "Kiss Your Little Baby
Goodnight," "I've Got the Girl," "It Made You
Happy When You Made Me Cry," "Just A
Bird's-Eye View of My Old Kentucky Home"
and "Thinking of You."
A lot more could be said, but when you can
refer to such records as the above they really
speak for themselves. "No kiddin'."
At the Mark Strand
Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, known as the
Happiness Boys and probably two of the most
popular radio and record artists, have been ap-
Oh/Those Lips. Oh/Those Eyes, Oh/Can't You See?
FOX TROT BALLAD
With Ukulele Aaowpa
spends some time in Chicago and in recent
years the Windy City has tried to claim him
for its own, but in looking up the records it is
found that he was "born and bred in Brook-
lyn" and still makes his home there.
His
first business activity was as a board clerk in a
Wall Street office of Henry B. Clews & Co.
and his first song was "A Jubilee in My Old
Kentucky Home." Oddly one of the greatest
of his present-day successes is "Just A Birds-
Eye View" (Of My Old Kentucky Home).
It is particularly appropriate to review Walter
Donaldson's activities as a writer and com-
poser because his song "It Made You Happy
When You Made Me Cry" was used by Jesse
Crawford, the nationally known organist and
record artist, during the week of the grand
opening of the new Paramount Theatre, New
York. An opening, by the way, which was re-
ported in practically every center in the United
States as creating a new type of photoplay
house. Naturally a song selected as a feature
Paramount Theatre, both Jesse Crawford's
work and the title of the song were often men-
tioned.
Going back to Walter Donaldson one need
not delve too far in popular music history in
order to prove the contention that he has estab-
lished a new record for successful songs. We
will pick a few out of late seasons, songs that
are still familiar, some of them still being
whistled. Among these are "Yes Sir, She's My
Baby," "After I Say I'm Sorry," "That's Why
I Love You," "Where'd You Get Those Eyes,"
"That Certain Party," "I Wonder Where My
Baby Is Tonight," "Midnight Waltz," "Let's
Talk About My Sweetie," "Let It Rain, Let It
Pour," "My Best Girl," "Beside a Babbling
Brook," "My Buddy," "Carolina In the Morn-
ing," "Mammy," "Back Home in Tennessee,"
"Shes A Daughter of Rosie O'Grady," "You're
a Million Miles From Nowhere," "How You
Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm," and a
title that equally applies to Walter himself,
Walter Donaldson
pearing this week at the Mark Strand Theatre,
Brooklyn, N. Y., as a feature attraction. In
their program they are featuring several num-
bers from the catalog of Irving Berlin, Inc.
Among these numbers are "Rags," "Finnigan
Is In Again" and "Tellin' the Birds, Tellin' the
Bees How I Love You."
J. S. Fink a Visitor
John S. Fink, secretary and general manager
of Larry Conley, Inc., the well-known Chicago
popular music publishing house, whose head-
quarters are 54 West Randolph street, that
city, has been a visitor in New York for the
past two weeks. Mr. Fink is not only arrang-
ing an Eastern campaign on a series of numbers
published by his firm, but in addition is visit-
ing all the mechanical reproduction companies
and the leading Eastern music distributors.
The Music Trade Review
40
You. Cav* ,'fc
DECEMBER 4, 1926
IN A LITJLE
Go
YOU
^-xz&miffl^u.
TZ^A
Walter Donaldson, a Song Writer Who
Writes Successes Season After Season
The Record of One of the Most Prominent of Those Who Supply the American Public With Its
Popular Music—One That Would Be Hard to Excel
T'S quite possible and has been done—that is
a song writer to write a lot of numbers
each season. To write a lot of successes, how-
ever, is an entirely different matter. And to
write many successes season after season is still
another subject. It has, of course, been done
but we know of no one who has performed bet-
ter in this phase of music writing than Walter
Donaldson. Donaldson, by the way, off and on,
I for
for such a gala event was chosen on its merit
alone. It was necessary that it be a part of a
program that would establish new standards
for photoplay music and in an atmosphere that
would meet the critical taste and ears of the
general public, the photoplay industry, the
music trade and the sharp-tongued newspaper
critics. It seems to have done all this because
in many of the reports of the opening of the
© LtO FEIST
"What a Man," the name of one of his songs.
Among his latest offerings, now being cur-
rently exploited, are "Kiss Your Little Baby
Goodnight," "I've Got the Girl," "It Made You
Happy When You Made Me Cry," "Just A
Bird's-Eye View of My Old Kentucky Home"
and "Thinking of You."
A lot more could be said, but when you can
refer to such records as the above they really
speak for themselves. "No kiddin'."
At the Mark Strand
Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, known as the
Happiness Boys and probably two of the most
popular radio and record artists, have been ap-
Oh/Those Lips. Oh/Those Eyes, Oh/Can't You See?
FOX TROT BALLAD
With Ukulele Aaowpa
spends some time in Chicago and in recent
years the Windy City has tried to claim him
for its own, but in looking up the records it is
found that he was "born and bred in Brook-
lyn" and still makes his home there.
His
first business activity was as a board clerk in a
Wall Street office of Henry B. Clews & Co.
and his first song was "A Jubilee in My Old
Kentucky Home." Oddly one of the greatest
of his present-day successes is "Just A Birds-
Eye View" (Of My Old Kentucky Home).
It is particularly appropriate to review Walter
Donaldson's activities as a writer and com-
poser because his song "It Made You Happy
When You Made Me Cry" was used by Jesse
Crawford, the nationally known organist and
record artist, during the week of the grand
opening of the new Paramount Theatre, New
York. An opening, by the way, which was re-
ported in practically every center in the United
States as creating a new type of photoplay
house. Naturally a song selected as a feature
Paramount Theatre, both Jesse Crawford's
work and the title of the song were often men-
tioned.
Going back to Walter Donaldson one need
not delve too far in popular music history in
order to prove the contention that he has estab-
lished a new record for successful songs. We
will pick a few out of late seasons, songs that
are still familiar, some of them still being
whistled. Among these are "Yes Sir, She's My
Baby," "After I Say I'm Sorry," "That's Why
I Love You," "Where'd You Get Those Eyes,"
"That Certain Party," "I Wonder Where My
Baby Is Tonight," "Midnight Waltz," "Let's
Talk About My Sweetie," "Let It Rain, Let It
Pour," "My Best Girl," "Beside a Babbling
Brook," "My Buddy," "Carolina In the Morn-
ing," "Mammy," "Back Home in Tennessee,"
"Shes A Daughter of Rosie O'Grady," "You're
a Million Miles From Nowhere," "How You
Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm," and a
title that equally applies to Walter himself,
Walter Donaldson
pearing this week at the Mark Strand Theatre,
Brooklyn, N. Y., as a feature attraction. In
their program they are featuring several num-
bers from the catalog of Irving Berlin, Inc.
Among these numbers are "Rags," "Finnigan
Is In Again" and "Tellin' the Birds, Tellin' the
Bees How I Love You."
J. S. Fink a Visitor
John S. Fink, secretary and general manager
of Larry Conley, Inc., the well-known Chicago
popular music publishing house, whose head-
quarters are 54 West Randolph street, that
city, has been a visitor in New York for the
past two weeks. Mr. Fink is not only arrang-
ing an Eastern campaign on a series of numbers
published by his firm, but in addition is visit-
ing all the mechanical reproduction companies
and the leading Eastern music distributors.
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