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ilealers, will reap a harvest in this field, if
quality songs having a bearing on the film
selected are produced.
"The one thing which will help a song to
popularity as the result of a picture hook-up i |
to introduce it as a vital and fitting part of the
film. But to inject a melody unnaturally will
react against both the song and screen efforts,"
said Mr. Robbins. "Our policy," he continued,
"is to plant a song at the very beginning, when
scenes for the picture are being 'shot.' Natural
sequences, such as prevail in musical comedies,
will be followed in the case of all our theme
songs, and to that end we have enlisted, and
in every case secured, the aid of the producers
and directors."
Almost all of the Robbins firm's theme-song
releases have enjoyed fair to excellent success.
The latest offerings are "Cross Roads" and
"Love Dreams." "Cross Roads" is tied up with
the Marion Davies-William Haines special,
"Show People," and was written by Dr. William
Axt and David Mendoza. "Love Dreams" is
the theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
talking picture "Alias Jimmy Valentine," star-
ring William Haines and featuring Lionel
Barrymore, Karl Dane and Leila Hyams. This
is also the work of William Axt and David
Mendoza with lyrics by Mort.Harris and Ray-
mond Klages.
New Volume of Schubert
Songs Issued by Ditson
A new volume containing fifty additional
songs by Franz Schubert has just been added
to the Musicians Library series by the Oliver
Ditson Co., o,f Boston. The songs have been
specially edited and arranged for high voice by
Coenraad V. Bos. The new collection contains
a foreword on the composer and notes on his
songs by Henry T. Finck and is to be counted
as one of the most valuable contributions to
the Musicians Library editions.
Among the songs in this group are "I Think
of Thee" (Andenken), first and second versions
of "Hope" (Hoffnung), "Love" (die Liebe),
"Prometheus," "Cradle Song," "To Music,"
"You Love Me Not," and "The Butterfly."
HERE IT IS!
The Song you've had so many calls for
and thought it was an old one.
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Theme Songs Bank
High in Publishing
Thirty-nine Numbers Now Exploited in Con-
nection With Country's Leading Film Re-
leases
Tne theme song market is reaching new
peaks with respect to the number of songs ac-
tively selling, a.nd a partial list has been com-
piled below for the convenience of music
clerks and dealers.
Film
Song
Just a Sweetheart
Beggars of Life
Neapolitan Nights
The First Kiss
Littlo Mother
Four Walls
Kiss Refore the Dawn
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Jcanninc, I Dream of Lilac
Timo
That Melody of Love
Sunbeams
When Love Conies Stealing
Kiss Me Again
My Man
Ramona
Revenge-
Dolores
Some Day Soim-where
The I'.L'KKar
Diane
Sonny Hoy
There's a Rainbow 'R< H i l l , !
My Shoulder
Speedy ]toy
Kiss Before the Dawn
Angela Mia
(hit of the Tempest
Out of the Dnwn
Paradise
Charmaine
Flower of Love
Marion
Destiny
Judy
Pals Just Pals
Love, All I Want Is Love
Wings
1 Loved You Then as I
Love You Now
Sunrise and You
Mother Machree
Battle of the Sexes
Beggars of Life
Fazil
The First Kiss
Four Sons
Four Walls
Gang War
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Lilac Time
Love
Loves of an Actress
The Man Who Laughs
Mile. Modiste
My Man
Ramona
Revenge
Red Dance
Secret Hour
Seventh Heaven
The Singing Fool
Speedy
Spider
Street Angel
The Tempest
Warming Up
The Wedding March
What Price Glory
White Shadows
Four Devils
Romance of the Underworld
Submarine
The Godless Girl
Wings
Dancing Daughters
Sunrise
Mother Machree
Bernard Prager Back
From Pacific Coast
Bernard Frager, traveler for the Robbins
Music Corp., New York, returned recently from
a trip to the Pacific Coast, having spent about
two months on the road, following which he
devoted about a week to Boston and New Eng-
land. Mr. Prager stated that the firm's best
sellers in the popular catalog were "Blue
Shadows," "Raquel" and "Once in a Lifetime"
from the new edition of Earl Carroll's "Van-
ities." The novelties, "Three Shades of Blue"
and "Metropolis," by Ferde Grofe, are selling
well in all the large cities, he reported, and
also the Rudy Wiedoeft folio, "Easy Saxo-
phone Solos."
Important New Volumes
Issued by Ditson Go.
M.WITMMUUSONS
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The Music Trade Review
NOVEMBER 17, 1928
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NEW YORK
The Oliver Ditson Co. has recently published
several interesting volumes for students of
music, one of the most important being a Man-
ual of Harmonic Technique, based on the prac-
tice of Johann Sebastian Bach, and written by
Donald Tweedy, A.M., instructor of the
theory of music at the Eastman School of
Music. Another volume, of pocket size, is de-
voted to "The Violin, Its Famous Makers and
Players," by Paul Stoeving. To the Analytic
Symphony Series has been added two volumes
edited by Percy Goetschius, one devoted to
Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A major, and
the other to Schubert's Symphony No. 5 in 1!
flat major.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
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