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The Music Trade Review
FEBRUARY 4, 1928.
and six easy pieces for children by Frances E.
Terry.
Henry Hadley's prelude from "Suite An-
cienne," and a prelude by Jean Beghon are re-
"Speedy Boy" Released Simultaneously With leased for full band. The orchestral music in
"Speedy," Latest Picture Play of Well-Known the Fischer February list includes two composi-
Movie Star
tions of Jean Sibelius, "In Mournful Mood" and
Romantique," as well as "Pinto," a
S H E E T JMUSIC A new song called "Speedy Boy" will be re- "Scene
Western allegro, by Hugo Riesenfeld, and new
is the message we are sending to leased soon by the Robbins Music Corp., New releases by Hugo Felix, M. L. Lake and others.
millions of people every day York, as a tie-up number with Harold Lloyd's In addition, there are some excellent secular
through the medium of 27 Best new motion picture, "Speedy," which will be songs, octavo choruses and miscellaneous in-
American Magazines directing the given its first public showing in the near future. strumental selections.
readers to go to their dealers for Incidentally "Speedy" will be the third theme
copies.
number to be published by the Robbins firm in Dorothy Lee and Arthur
HOOK-UP
conjunction with a Harold Lloyd picture. The
Robbins number, "Freshie," released at the time
Lamb Collaborate
of the showing of "The Freshman," proved to
be one of the leading song hits of the 1925 Produce "Into the Dawn With You," Now Being
Widely Exploited by the Sam Fox Publish-
season.
ing Co.
Fifteen cents a copy for the
The Harold Lloyd Corp., which has produced
"Speedy," has sent the following news release
Best existing Edition is the
Dorothy Lee, one of the most successful of
to all motion picture papers: "With the release present-day composers, has collaborated with
reason why "CENTURY" is
of Harold Lloyd's new comedy production, Arthur Lamb on a new song, entitled "Into
'Speedy,' by Paramount, exhibitors will be the Dawn With You," which will be widely
Best selling Edition.
offered a song tie-up with the Lloyd picture exploited through the efforts of the Sam Fox
as part of their exploitation campaign. Coin- Publishing Co., New York and Cleveland, pub-
cident with the showing of the picture, the Rob- lishers of all Miss Lee's compositions. Her
235 W. 40th St., New York City bins Music Corp., which maintains an inter- popularity is based on such songs as "One
national reputation in the music publishing Fleeting Hour," "Out of the Dusk to You," "In
world, is publishing a song called 'Speedy Boy,' the Heart of the Hills," and others. The Sam
Two New Marks Numbers
based on the story of 'Speedy' and the character Fox Publishing Co. will not only carry out a
Are Coming From Chicago portrayed by Mr. Lloyd. The song will have a campaign to popularize "Into the Dawn With
distribution throughout the country, not only in You," but will later include it in its Library
"To-morrow's To-morrow, To-day Is To-day" music stores, but in department stores, drug Edition.
and "I'm Playing Hide and Go Seek" Are stores and other establishments handling songs
as a sideline. The publishers have representa-
Their Titles
tives in several of the large cities in the United Pauliine Adams Is Now
Realizing that Chicago is becoming more and States, who will be glad to co-operate with ex- Baum & Westerman Manager
more the birthplace of popular song hits, the hibitors of 'Speedy' in regard to window dis-
MERCEDES, TEXAS, January 30.—Miss Pauline
Edward B. Marks Music Co., New York, has plays and other hook-ups."
Adams
has been selected as manager of the
chosen two typical Chicago numbers for the
sheet music department of the Baum & Wester-
plug songs, with which it expects to follow up New February Releases of
man music store, this city, the department hav-
"Down South" and "A Kiss Before the Dawn."
been enlarged since the first of the year.
the Carl Fischer House ing
The first, "To-morrow's To-morrow, Today Is
Miss
Adams possesses a thorough musical edu-
To-day," is the combined work of Bernie Gross-
man, new head of the firm's Chicago office, with "Passacaglia," a New Piano Composition by the cation and her employers feel that her acquaint-
Famous Pianist, Leopold Godowsky, Leading ance both with music and local musicians will
Paul Ash and Sam Kaufman. Mr. Grossman
be of great benefit in conducting the sheet music
an Interesting List
collaborated with Billy Moll and Arthur Size-
counter.
more in writing the second, "I'm Playing Hide
Some interesting works are contained in the
and Go Seek (Wondering Where You Are)."
"To-morrow's To-morrow" is a new variation February announcement of new issues of Carl
of the "happiness" song with a bright set of Fischer, Inc., New York, among them being
The Music by Lew Pollack, co-
lyrics backed by one of those infallible tunes "Passacaglia," a piano piece by Leopold Godow-
writer of Charmaine, Diane and
sky.
The
work
is
based
on
the
first
eight
meas-
with which Paul Ash has so often been associ-
Miss Annabell Lee.
ated. The Chicago leader has. already intro- ures of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and
duced it at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago and Mr. Godowsky regards the piece as the crown-
The lyric by Sidney Clare, co-
results there have caused him to vouch per- ing achievement of his activity as a composer,
writer of Then I'll Be Happy and
sonally that it is one of the quickest tunes to in which view he has been vindicated by the
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
opinion of eminent musicians and critics. Other
take hold he has yet featured.
"Hide and Go Seek" is slightly more jazzy new piano music in the Carl Fischer list includes
in tempo, though it can be sung as a blues "Rococo," "Valse Arabesque," by John Tasker
ballad as well as a hot tune. It is very pos- Howard, four sketches by Alexander Lipsky,
sible that it will run ahead of "To-morrow" in
popularity, though the latter got away to an
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
early start and seems slated to be the leader in
'CAUSE YOU'RE A U THE VORLD TO ME
the Marks catalog soon. Mr. Grossman, always
known as a hustler, had worked up a sizable
demand for these two songs throughout the
Middle West even before the copies were ready,
Oliver Ditson Company
and now that they have been issued most at-
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