Presto
Issue: 1923 1906 - Page 23
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PRESTO
February 3, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
TO PUBLISHERS
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
THE COMBINED CIRCULATION
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS-
ICAL TIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA-
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT-
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS-
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB-
LISHERS.
This department is designed to advance the sales
of sheet music, and give any current information in
the Sheet Music Trade.
This publication believes that Sheet Music will
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays
those who merchandise it properly.
The conductor of this department will review
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer-
ings, giving particular information of the theme and
a description of the musical setting of the number
discussed.
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Music Dept, Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
BAIT FOR SONG SHARKS
New Contribution to the Fakers Who Angle for the
"Song-Wanted" Suckers.
A recent contribution to the music mill of a song
shark was not so joyfully received as some. Prob-
ably this was because no check or money-order was
enclosed, and then, again, it may be that the shark's
feelings were touched.
The author of the Empire State song adopted by
the State Federation of Music Clubs, John F.
Howard, of Silver Lake Assembly, N. Y., also the
author of the prize patriotic song in the 1917 contest
of the New York Herald, and a Shakespearean inter-
preter of note, is the writer of the lyric. He was in-
spired by his interest in a twelve-year-old girl whose
song poem, "Mother's Love," was set to "music" by
a song shark, with the usual results.
The "song poem,' 1 submitted by the Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce in its drive on the
"musical moonshiners/' read as follows:
The Song of the Song Fakir.
Tune: "The Devil's Dream."
I break the hearts of dear little girls
By saying their poetrj 's good;
I take the money they need for clothes
And books and ribbons and food;
I tell each her iyric will make her rich—
(When I've set some fool melody to it!)
Five Winners at Present Time Have Merit in Both
Title and Contents.
Three hits in the list of popular songs from J. H.
Remick & Co., New York, glorify states and the fact
In the flush of hope she sends on her cash—
possibly helped to produce the big sales for the num-
"Only twenty-eight dollars will do it!"
bers. They are: "Sweet Indiana Home," "California"
and "Carolina in the Morning." But while the theme
No nublisher ever takes up a song
of the songs may be an aid to popularity, it is the
That I "exploit" for the dears,
Except some "publisher" like myself
intrinsic merits of lyric and melody that have made
Who fattens on maiden's tears;
the sales continuous since the date of publications of
But I set the money from which sweet girls
each song. An attractive title is an asset in a piece
In their innocence willingly part,
of music but the quality that makes it salable and
And I watch each fall from her dreamy clouds
productive of profits is on the inside. The three
Back to earth, with her broken heart!
Remick songs named are good without and within.
"Silver Swanee" and "Dixie Highway" are two
JUSTIN BURT FEATURES OWN SONG.
other Remick songs ranking as hits that advertise
Justin G. Burt, song writer and composer, of Green- specified localities and do it in an admirable way.
ville, Texas, is featuring his new waltz ballad, "That's Like the songs with the state titles they are good in-
Why I Miss You So," in his territory, with a male side as well as outside. Of course the selection of
quartet composed of himself and other well-known the names and themes were happy ones. There is
singers. On January 13th he featured this song in no more romantic stream in the United States than
two radio concerts from the Dallas News Station the Swanee River and everybody over a large section
WFAA, which brought telegrams from various quar- of country is aware of the importance and transporta-
ters in praise of his composition and other numbers tion purposes of the Dixie Highway.
rendered.
MEXICO A MUSIC CUSTOMER.
Mexico gets the greater part of its classic music
from Germany while its popular songs and dance
music comes from the United States, according to
United States Consul James B. Stewart at Tampico.
The consul mentioned the comments of a leading
sheet music dealer in Tampico on the improvement
in the proofreading and printing of American music
today compared with the Mexican importations of a
few years ago.
FEATURES SHEET MUSIC.
Seiberling-Lucas, of Portland, Ore., have moved
to their new quarters on Fourth street and, while
they have not had their formal opening, are doing a
big business. The sheet music department has been
made very attractive and is featuring "I Love a Little
Cottage" and "Romany Love" on a large scale.
CIRCULARIZE DRUM.
The ten dollar drum put out by the Wilson Bros.
Mfg. Co.. Chicago, late last year, is proving more and
more popular all the time. The company has re-
ceived numerous requests for cuts of the drum, since
the dealers want to circularize it. These cuts are
being supplied as much as possible.
MUSIC FOR "PEG O' MY HEART."
"Peg O' My Heart," which has achieved a big suc-
cess as a novel, a printed play, and an acted comedy
and is at present a hit at movie houses all over the
country, is to be produced as an operetta, according
to J. Hartley Manners, its author. Dr. Hugo Felix
is at work upon the score.
"THE LOVE YOU
FIRST GAVE ME"
A Song of the better class. Very pretty
melody. Will go well anywhere* One
of the kind that never grows old.
Orchestrations
now ready
25c
:-:
FORE!
MAKE WAY
FOR THE
CHICAGO, ILL.
"LOVE OF THE AGES"
Endorsed and Sung by Cyrena Van Gordon
"DREAMING OF LOVE'S OLD DREAM"
The Song You Have Been Waiting For
"You're the One Little Girl for Me"
A BaUad You Will Never Forget
"When I Dream that Auld Erin is Free"
HERBERT J. GOTT
Successors to
American Popular Music Bulletin Service.
GOTT ® HENDERSON
166 W. JACKSON BLVD.
CHICAGO
ERS
9est
Music Printers
ANY PUBLISHER \
OUR REFERENCE ^
BAYNEB,DAL]j|;iM ^
JAILED FOR SONG SWINDLE
Charles Smith, Negro, Gets Three and a Half Years
in Federal Prison.
Charles Smith, the negro "song publisher," of To-
ledo, recently arrested for using the mails to defraud,
was sentenced to three and a half years in federal
prison at Atlanta, according to word received by the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce from the
Better Business Commission of the Toledo Adver-
tising Club. The Chamber's Better Business Bu-
13-Our Lucky-13
Including "JONAH"
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
"I'd Give It All for You"
"Honey" (An Alabama Lullaby)
"If It Makes Any Difference to You"
"Dear Heart, Tell Me Why"
"In Candy Land with You"
"My Days Remember"
"Sweet Norah Daly"
"Tea Rose" (Japanese Romance)
"Stop Looking At Me"
"Dance Me On Your Knee"
"Alanna Macree"
"Misty Moon"
"Jonah"
ELIZA DOYLE SMITH
Music Publishers
59 East Van Buren St.
CHICAGO
Four Foremost Sellers
A Tribute to Ireland's Independence
WM. STERN, Publisher
6219 MAY ST.
GOOD REMICK SONG NAMES
Estimates^
Gladly Furnished
-~
/
- WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
2054-2060 W.Lake St., Chicago, 111.
REMICK SONG HITS
Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
My Buddy
California
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter
Than Today
Carolina in the Morning
Silver Swanee
Childhood Days
When Shall We Meet Again
Lovable Eyes
Out of the Shadows
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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PRESTO
February 3, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
TO PUBLISHERS
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
THE COMBINED CIRCULATION
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS-
ICAL TIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA-
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT-
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS-
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB-
LISHERS.
This department is designed to advance the sales
of sheet music, and give any current information in
the Sheet Music Trade.
This publication believes that Sheet Music will
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays
those who merchandise it properly.
The conductor of this department will review
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer-
ings, giving particular information of the theme and
a description of the musical setting of the number
discussed.
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Music Dept, Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
BAIT FOR SONG SHARKS
New Contribution to the Fakers Who Angle for the
"Song-Wanted" Suckers.
A recent contribution to the music mill of a song
shark was not so joyfully received as some. Prob-
ably this was because no check or money-order was
enclosed, and then, again, it may be that the shark's
feelings were touched.
The author of the Empire State song adopted by
the State Federation of Music Clubs, John F.
Howard, of Silver Lake Assembly, N. Y., also the
author of the prize patriotic song in the 1917 contest
of the New York Herald, and a Shakespearean inter-
preter of note, is the writer of the lyric. He was in-
spired by his interest in a twelve-year-old girl whose
song poem, "Mother's Love," was set to "music" by
a song shark, with the usual results.
The "song poem,' 1 submitted by the Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce in its drive on the
"musical moonshiners/' read as follows:
The Song of the Song Fakir.
Tune: "The Devil's Dream."
I break the hearts of dear little girls
By saying their poetrj 's good;
I take the money they need for clothes
And books and ribbons and food;
I tell each her iyric will make her rich—
(When I've set some fool melody to it!)
Five Winners at Present Time Have Merit in Both
Title and Contents.
Three hits in the list of popular songs from J. H.
Remick & Co., New York, glorify states and the fact
In the flush of hope she sends on her cash—
possibly helped to produce the big sales for the num-
"Only twenty-eight dollars will do it!"
bers. They are: "Sweet Indiana Home," "California"
and "Carolina in the Morning." But while the theme
No nublisher ever takes up a song
of the songs may be an aid to popularity, it is the
That I "exploit" for the dears,
Except some "publisher" like myself
intrinsic merits of lyric and melody that have made
Who fattens on maiden's tears;
the sales continuous since the date of publications of
But I set the money from which sweet girls
each song. An attractive title is an asset in a piece
In their innocence willingly part,
of music but the quality that makes it salable and
And I watch each fall from her dreamy clouds
productive of profits is on the inside. The three
Back to earth, with her broken heart!
Remick songs named are good without and within.
"Silver Swanee" and "Dixie Highway" are two
JUSTIN BURT FEATURES OWN SONG.
other Remick songs ranking as hits that advertise
Justin G. Burt, song writer and composer, of Green- specified localities and do it in an admirable way.
ville, Texas, is featuring his new waltz ballad, "That's Like the songs with the state titles they are good in-
Why I Miss You So," in his territory, with a male side as well as outside. Of course the selection of
quartet composed of himself and other well-known the names and themes were happy ones. There is
singers. On January 13th he featured this song in no more romantic stream in the United States than
two radio concerts from the Dallas News Station the Swanee River and everybody over a large section
WFAA, which brought telegrams from various quar- of country is aware of the importance and transporta-
ters in praise of his composition and other numbers tion purposes of the Dixie Highway.
rendered.
MEXICO A MUSIC CUSTOMER.
Mexico gets the greater part of its classic music
from Germany while its popular songs and dance
music comes from the United States, according to
United States Consul James B. Stewart at Tampico.
The consul mentioned the comments of a leading
sheet music dealer in Tampico on the improvement
in the proofreading and printing of American music
today compared with the Mexican importations of a
few years ago.
FEATURES SHEET MUSIC.
Seiberling-Lucas, of Portland, Ore., have moved
to their new quarters on Fourth street and, while
they have not had their formal opening, are doing a
big business. The sheet music department has been
made very attractive and is featuring "I Love a Little
Cottage" and "Romany Love" on a large scale.
CIRCULARIZE DRUM.
The ten dollar drum put out by the Wilson Bros.
Mfg. Co.. Chicago, late last year, is proving more and
more popular all the time. The company has re-
ceived numerous requests for cuts of the drum, since
the dealers want to circularize it. These cuts are
being supplied as much as possible.
MUSIC FOR "PEG O' MY HEART."
"Peg O' My Heart," which has achieved a big suc-
cess as a novel, a printed play, and an acted comedy
and is at present a hit at movie houses all over the
country, is to be produced as an operetta, according
to J. Hartley Manners, its author. Dr. Hugo Felix
is at work upon the score.
"THE LOVE YOU
FIRST GAVE ME"
A Song of the better class. Very pretty
melody. Will go well anywhere* One
of the kind that never grows old.
Orchestrations
now ready
25c
:-:
FORE!
MAKE WAY
FOR THE
CHICAGO, ILL.
"LOVE OF THE AGES"
Endorsed and Sung by Cyrena Van Gordon
"DREAMING OF LOVE'S OLD DREAM"
The Song You Have Been Waiting For
"You're the One Little Girl for Me"
A BaUad You Will Never Forget
"When I Dream that Auld Erin is Free"
HERBERT J. GOTT
Successors to
American Popular Music Bulletin Service.
GOTT ® HENDERSON
166 W. JACKSON BLVD.
CHICAGO
ERS
9est
Music Printers
ANY PUBLISHER \
OUR REFERENCE ^
BAYNEB,DAL]j|;iM ^
JAILED FOR SONG SWINDLE
Charles Smith, Negro, Gets Three and a Half Years
in Federal Prison.
Charles Smith, the negro "song publisher," of To-
ledo, recently arrested for using the mails to defraud,
was sentenced to three and a half years in federal
prison at Atlanta, according to word received by the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce from the
Better Business Commission of the Toledo Adver-
tising Club. The Chamber's Better Business Bu-
13-Our Lucky-13
Including "JONAH"
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
"I'd Give It All for You"
"Honey" (An Alabama Lullaby)
"If It Makes Any Difference to You"
"Dear Heart, Tell Me Why"
"In Candy Land with You"
"My Days Remember"
"Sweet Norah Daly"
"Tea Rose" (Japanese Romance)
"Stop Looking At Me"
"Dance Me On Your Knee"
"Alanna Macree"
"Misty Moon"
"Jonah"
ELIZA DOYLE SMITH
Music Publishers
59 East Van Buren St.
CHICAGO
Four Foremost Sellers
A Tribute to Ireland's Independence
WM. STERN, Publisher
6219 MAY ST.
GOOD REMICK SONG NAMES
Estimates^
Gladly Furnished
-~
/
- WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
2054-2060 W.Lake St., Chicago, 111.
REMICK SONG HITS
Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
My Buddy
California
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter
Than Today
Carolina in the Morning
Silver Swanee
Childhood Days
When Shall We Meet Again
Lovable Eyes
Out of the Shadows
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).