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The
Music Trade Review
AUGUST 4, 1928
Donaldson Program for
Eveready Broadcast
entury
tion, showing a comical character weeping
alone in a park on a moonlight night. This
song has been one of the most successful of
recent reissues, having enjoyed a wide-second
popularity in sheet music sales as well as be- The Best Known Songs of Walter Donaldson in
Both Past and Present to Be en Eveready
ing recorded again by all the leading mechani-
Hour on August 7
cal companies.
is the message we are sending to Busse and Band Record
millions of people every day
Robbins Corp. Numbers
through the medium of 31 Best
American Magazines directing the
Henry Busse, former star trumpeter with
readers to go to their dealers for
Paul Whiteman's Orchestra practically since its
copies.
inception, recently left the Whiteman organiza-
HOOK-UP
tion to form his own band, which has just
Fifteen cents a copy for the
Best existing Edition is the
reason why "CENTURY is
Beat selling Edition.
Century Music Pub. Co.
235 W. 4Oth St., New York City
"Jumping Jack" Issued
by Berlin Standard
made its recording debut on Victor with "How
About It?" and "One Step to Heaven." These
numbers, both published by the Robbins Music
Corp., New York, were appropriately selected
for the first recording by Mr. Busse, as they
originated in the score of the musical comedy
production, "Say When," in which the Busse
Band is starred. Mr. Busse's entrance as a
dance maestro will doubtless be received with
interest by the trade and the large public, which
has heard the Whiteman concert unit in all
sections of the country, and which must have
felt no little amusement in watching the first
trumpet player as a miniature Whiteman in ap-
pearance and manner.
Pacific Coast Sellers
Composition Written by Bloom, Seaman and
Smolev, Published as Piano Solo and a
Dance Orchestration
SAN FRANCISCO, CAT.., July 29.—Mentioning the
current song successes in this section of the
Pacific Coast, James L. Haley, assistant to Ed
The Irving Berlin Standard Music Corp., New Little in the publishing department of Sherman,
York, has recently released its first popular Clay & Co., stated this week that "Ramona,"
novelty tune, entitled "Jumping Jack," which a Feist publication, "Dream House," "Little
is showing up well professionally and commer- Mother" and "Rag Doll," Sherman, Clay & Co.
cially. This number, written by Rube Bloom publications, are all strong favorites. "Rag
in collaboration with Bernie Seaman and Mar- Doll," by the composer of "Doll Dance," was
vin Smolev, has been issued as a piano solo issued as a piano solo, but has now been made
and also in dance orchestration form. "Jump- into a song by popular demand. Paul Ash's
ing Jack" has been featured on several coast- new song, "You're Wonderful," a Sherman,
to-coast radio hook-ups, and appears to be the Clay & Co. publication, is going extremely well
type of novelty number which will be long- in Chicago and New York, according to the
lived. A new edition with lyrics will be off company's statement.
the press shortly and should open an additional
field for the song. Harry Engel, general man-
ager of the Irving Berlin Standard Music Corp.,
left this week for a two-weeks' vacation in the WASHINGTON, D. C, July 29.—A substantial in-
backwoods of Canada. He was accompanied by crease in the foreign sales of sheet music is
Mrs. Engel, and they plan a complete rest.
indicated by statistics available at the Depart-
ment of Commerce covering exports in the first
four months of this year. In the months of
January, February March and April, 1927, these
exports were $107,409, while in the same months
of this year the total was $124,018. These ex-
Dick Gerard and Harry Armstrong, writes ports included music in the sheet and bound in
of "Sweet Adeline," which has sold several books.
million copies since it was published in 1903,
are said to have rejected an offer recently of
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$300 advance and a royalty of two cents per
copy from a publisher for an assignment of
the copyright on the song, when it expires in
1931. The writers realize that they blundered
financially when they sold their royalty inter-
ests, in the song for a flat sum of $2,000. For
Oliver Ditson Company
this reason they are acting more deliberately
BOSTON
NEW YORK
this time, as under the copyright law the song
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Dealers
will come back as their property in three more
years. Last Winter the same writers turned
out a sister number to "Adeline" called "Sweet
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Elaine," which received much newspaper pub-
licity and which has enjoyed a considerable sale
Music Engravers and Printers
through the public's association of it with its
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
predecessor.
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
Sheet Music Exports
A program of Walter Donaldson music will
be a feature of the nation-wide broadcast of the
Eveready Hour on Tuesday evening, August 7,
when that composer's hits of past and present
are presented for thirty minutes of the custo-
mary hour, from 9 to 10 o'clock, Eastern day-
light saving time. In putting on the Donald-
son program, executives arranging the Eveready
Hour are following the precedent they have set
in the past with such eminent popular com-
posers as Georg Gershwin and Richard
Rodgers, who have been similarly honored by
this organization.
The program will start with some of the
earlier Donaldson hits, such as "My Buddy,"
"At Sundown," "Yes Sir, That's My Baby,"
"My Blue Heaven," "My Ohio Home" and
others.. Such well-known vocalists as Vaughn
De Leath, Mildred Hunt, Scrappy Lambert, and
also Nat Shilkret's Eveready Orchestra will take
part in the program. In conclusion, some of
the new Donaldson releases of the music pub-
lishing firm of Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble,
Inc., New York, publishers of all of the com-
poser's present output, will be heard. These
will include "Just Like a Melody Out of the
Sky," "In a Bamboo Garden," "Anything You
Say," " 'Cause I'm in Love," "Out of Town
Gal," "Out of the Dawn" and in conclusion
Walter Donaldson in person will sing and play
"Just Another Night."
Isidore Witmark Away
Isidore Witmark, of the music publishing firm
of M. Witmark & Sons, New York, is spending
a quiet three weeks in Bridgton, Me., accom-
panied by his wife and daughter. In his letters
to the firm Mr. Witmark states that he is
getting just the kind of rest he needed.
Another Sensational Hit
in THE WITMARK
BLACK & WHITE
SERIES
Writers of "Adeline"
Reject Royalty Offer
BOSTON
Publi8hers
311 West 43rd Street
New York City
Triangle Go. Blotter
A novel advertising blotter with a calendar
of August has just been mailed to the trade by
Joe Davis, head of the Triangle Music Publish-
ing Co., New York, in the interest of "I Ain't
Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me)." The
blotter contains a cartoon above the title cap-
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Instrumental for Piano
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