Presto
Issue: 1923 1928 - Page 25
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PRESTO
July 7, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
TO PUBLISHERS
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIllllllll
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.
SONGS FOR THE SWAINS
Many of the Popular Sheet Music Numbers
Declared to Be Great Aids to Young
Men's Wooing.
There is a common impression that women pur-
chase the largest percentage .of sheet music. It is
true in many stores but in others the reverse is the
fact. In some music stores the girls as sheet music
customers are the most numerous, but their pur-
chases average less than the purchases of the young
men. These are facts gathered in interviews with
sheet music counter managers in Chicago this week.
The interviewer learned that popular music in sheet
music form is a common aid in courting today. The
gift of music to a lady love has always been in
vogue, but many managers averred it now enters into
the ways of wooing as it never did before. "Say It
With Music" might be an appropriate slogan for the
sheet music trade.
The fact that so many of the new popular songs
are inspired by love's young dream explains why the
sheet music is considered as a message to a girl from
her swain. Three songs of J. H. Remick & Co.,
which have aided thousands of shy young men to
convey the state and depth of their amorous feelings
to "the only girl" are, "Sweet One," "Your Eyes
Have Told Me So" and "Lovable Eyes."
And a song as good as a personal proposal for the
diffident swain is Herbert J. Gott's '"You're the One
Little Girl for Me." Another that has been found
equally effective from the same publisher's list is
"That Wonderful Sweetie of Mine."
"Honey," published by Eliza Doyle Smith, Chi-
cago, is another of the new songs that "says
something" for the young man with the heart over-
flowing with amorous feelings. It is believed that
the greater part of sales of this big favorite are pur-
chased as courting aids by young men. The writer
of the lyric understands human nature and the way
to express the affectionate feelings in words. The
music is also by Mrs. Smith and the world of song
buyers knows how well she can play upon the heart
strings with a bit of melody.
BUYS SHEET MUSIC STOCK.
The stock of sheet music in the Green Music
House, Puyallup, Wash., has been purchased by Mrs.
Frank Griffin, who has moved it to the Cooper Studio
in the Post Office Building. The stock is largely
composed of popular numbers, but it is the purpose
of Mrs. Griffin to make the standard lines more com-
plete and also to provide for the wants of the music
teachers in music and supplies.
A sheet music department is included in the new
Chillicothe Piano Co.'s branch store attractions in
Jamestown, O.
MR. DEALER:
Have you the new waltz ballad "Mother
Dear, I'm Sad and Lonely," in stock?
You are missing a good number if you
haven't. Now ready in sheet-music, orchestra
and professional copies. 25c and 15c.
Professional copies free. Special price to
jobbers.
MAY BELL ANDREWS, Publisher
ELDRID, PA.
"Be First With a HEARST"
7 FOREMOST SELLERS
RUTH
Just FoolirT With You
That Wonderful Sweetie of Mine
You're the One Little Girl for Me
Love of the Ages
Dreaming of Love's Old Dream
When I Dream That Auld Erin Is Free
HERBERT J. GOTT
Music
Publisher
1 7 7 No. State St.
CHICAGO
9est
ANY PUBLISHER x
OUR REFERENCE
KAYNEB, DALHEIM 8 C o :
Wonderful Child
She's Got Another Daddy
Beautiful Rose
Home—My Lovin' Dixie Home
In The Land of Sweet Sixteen
Many Years
Always Looking For A Little Sunshine
Just a Little Gold Watch and Chain
In Baby's Smile
Love is Love For Ever
Lonesome Two
Piano Dream
Step
Order From Your Jobber or Direct
HEARST HUSK PUBLISHERS LTD
1658 BROADWAY
-
PHOENIX BLDG.
-
199Y0NGEST
NEW YORK T WINNIPEG T fORONTO
No Loss on a Hearst Song — Money
Back Guarantee
Estimates
'
WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
PUBLISHERS INCORPORATE
Recent Announcements of New Ventures in the Field
of Music Publishing.
James A. Sanaker, John Hajan and H. G. Monk
are the incorporators of the Sanaker Songs Co., at
Viborg, S. D. The capital is given at $5,000 and
the purpose is to publish and sell the song "My Sun-
shine State."
The Vinn S-tudios of Popular Music, New York,
recently filed incorporation papers and gave $10,000
as the capital. H. DeBrunn and I. Goldman were
named as the officers and S. E. Ginsburg, attorney.
The Pravder Music House, Brooklyn, N. Y., was
recently incorporated by P. and C. Pravder and O.
Siefifert, with S. F. Swinburne as attorney.
Ned Norworth, Inc., State-Lake building, Chi-
cago; $55,000; Ned Norworth and Kenneth Carl
Lipmann.
Brown Music Co., Chicago, $10,000; Grace and
Fred Brownold and Charles P. Harrison.
OUR MUSICAL HOSPITALITY
Americans
Free in Adopting Musical
Whether Meritorious or Not.
Novelties
Americans are considered the most hospitable peo-
ple in the world to musical novelties. Europeans
are not, and it is only a few years ago the English
took notice of the fact that the rest of the world
made good catchy musical things. Americans take
things on their merits and sometimes when no merits
are audible they adopt them from a whim.
Now, according to an export manager for a talk-
ing machine record industry, quoted by a writer in
the Saturday Evening Post, the English vie with
Americans in freedom to adopt anything and every-
thing, good or bad, in music.
"I remember how rash I thought an American
music publisher when he told me ten years ago that
he was going to introduce American ragtime in Eng-
land," said the manager. "It had been tried again
and again, but the British couldn't get the hang of it
somehow. But he went ahead and spent money, and
did finally succeed in popularizing Alexander's Rag-
time Band. Today we make almost as many jazz-
band records in London as in the United States.
"Whenever Americans have had a chance to hear
marimba music, Hawaiian music and like novelties
they generally take to them on their merits. The
principal obstacle to a wider sale of foreign novelties
in the Lhiited States is the peculiar system we have
for making popular American selections. A music
publisher brings out a certain song. Free profes-
sional copies are sent to bands and orchestras all over
the country, singers are taught the song in Tinpan
Alley, and in some cases paid to sing it. The dealer
in music as well as phonograph records has been
taught to gauge everything by popularity already
created.
"Mexicans write waltzes that I consider second to
only those of Vienna; but speak to the dealer about
stocking a Mexican waltz and he asks suspiciously
'Is there any demand for it?' Occasionally a foreign
composition arrives on sheer merit, but it takes a
long time.
"There is the popular waltz, Three o'Clock in the
Morning, as an illustration. It was written by a
REMICK SONG HITS
Falling
Just a Little Blue
Barney Google
Beside a Babbling Brook
My Buddy
Carolina in the Morning
Dream Melody
Sweet One
Rocky Mountain Moon
When Will I Know
Everything is K. O. in K. Y.
Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Lovable Eyes
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
2054-2060 W.Lake St., Chicago, 111.-,
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PRESTO
July 7, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
TO PUBLISHERS
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIllllllll
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.
SONGS FOR THE SWAINS
Many of the Popular Sheet Music Numbers
Declared to Be Great Aids to Young
Men's Wooing.
There is a common impression that women pur-
chase the largest percentage .of sheet music. It is
true in many stores but in others the reverse is the
fact. In some music stores the girls as sheet music
customers are the most numerous, but their pur-
chases average less than the purchases of the young
men. These are facts gathered in interviews with
sheet music counter managers in Chicago this week.
The interviewer learned that popular music in sheet
music form is a common aid in courting today. The
gift of music to a lady love has always been in
vogue, but many managers averred it now enters into
the ways of wooing as it never did before. "Say It
With Music" might be an appropriate slogan for the
sheet music trade.
The fact that so many of the new popular songs
are inspired by love's young dream explains why the
sheet music is considered as a message to a girl from
her swain. Three songs of J. H. Remick & Co.,
which have aided thousands of shy young men to
convey the state and depth of their amorous feelings
to "the only girl" are, "Sweet One," "Your Eyes
Have Told Me So" and "Lovable Eyes."
And a song as good as a personal proposal for the
diffident swain is Herbert J. Gott's '"You're the One
Little Girl for Me." Another that has been found
equally effective from the same publisher's list is
"That Wonderful Sweetie of Mine."
"Honey," published by Eliza Doyle Smith, Chi-
cago, is another of the new songs that "says
something" for the young man with the heart over-
flowing with amorous feelings. It is believed that
the greater part of sales of this big favorite are pur-
chased as courting aids by young men. The writer
of the lyric understands human nature and the way
to express the affectionate feelings in words. The
music is also by Mrs. Smith and the world of song
buyers knows how well she can play upon the heart
strings with a bit of melody.
BUYS SHEET MUSIC STOCK.
The stock of sheet music in the Green Music
House, Puyallup, Wash., has been purchased by Mrs.
Frank Griffin, who has moved it to the Cooper Studio
in the Post Office Building. The stock is largely
composed of popular numbers, but it is the purpose
of Mrs. Griffin to make the standard lines more com-
plete and also to provide for the wants of the music
teachers in music and supplies.
A sheet music department is included in the new
Chillicothe Piano Co.'s branch store attractions in
Jamestown, O.
MR. DEALER:
Have you the new waltz ballad "Mother
Dear, I'm Sad and Lonely," in stock?
You are missing a good number if you
haven't. Now ready in sheet-music, orchestra
and professional copies. 25c and 15c.
Professional copies free. Special price to
jobbers.
MAY BELL ANDREWS, Publisher
ELDRID, PA.
"Be First With a HEARST"
7 FOREMOST SELLERS
RUTH
Just FoolirT With You
That Wonderful Sweetie of Mine
You're the One Little Girl for Me
Love of the Ages
Dreaming of Love's Old Dream
When I Dream That Auld Erin Is Free
HERBERT J. GOTT
Music
Publisher
1 7 7 No. State St.
CHICAGO
9est
ANY PUBLISHER x
OUR REFERENCE
KAYNEB, DALHEIM 8 C o :
Wonderful Child
She's Got Another Daddy
Beautiful Rose
Home—My Lovin' Dixie Home
In The Land of Sweet Sixteen
Many Years
Always Looking For A Little Sunshine
Just a Little Gold Watch and Chain
In Baby's Smile
Love is Love For Ever
Lonesome Two
Piano Dream
Step
Order From Your Jobber or Direct
HEARST HUSK PUBLISHERS LTD
1658 BROADWAY
-
PHOENIX BLDG.
-
199Y0NGEST
NEW YORK T WINNIPEG T fORONTO
No Loss on a Hearst Song — Money
Back Guarantee
Estimates
'
WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
PUBLISHERS INCORPORATE
Recent Announcements of New Ventures in the Field
of Music Publishing.
James A. Sanaker, John Hajan and H. G. Monk
are the incorporators of the Sanaker Songs Co., at
Viborg, S. D. The capital is given at $5,000 and
the purpose is to publish and sell the song "My Sun-
shine State."
The Vinn S-tudios of Popular Music, New York,
recently filed incorporation papers and gave $10,000
as the capital. H. DeBrunn and I. Goldman were
named as the officers and S. E. Ginsburg, attorney.
The Pravder Music House, Brooklyn, N. Y., was
recently incorporated by P. and C. Pravder and O.
Siefifert, with S. F. Swinburne as attorney.
Ned Norworth, Inc., State-Lake building, Chi-
cago; $55,000; Ned Norworth and Kenneth Carl
Lipmann.
Brown Music Co., Chicago, $10,000; Grace and
Fred Brownold and Charles P. Harrison.
OUR MUSICAL HOSPITALITY
Americans
Free in Adopting Musical
Whether Meritorious or Not.
Novelties
Americans are considered the most hospitable peo-
ple in the world to musical novelties. Europeans
are not, and it is only a few years ago the English
took notice of the fact that the rest of the world
made good catchy musical things. Americans take
things on their merits and sometimes when no merits
are audible they adopt them from a whim.
Now, according to an export manager for a talk-
ing machine record industry, quoted by a writer in
the Saturday Evening Post, the English vie with
Americans in freedom to adopt anything and every-
thing, good or bad, in music.
"I remember how rash I thought an American
music publisher when he told me ten years ago that
he was going to introduce American ragtime in Eng-
land," said the manager. "It had been tried again
and again, but the British couldn't get the hang of it
somehow. But he went ahead and spent money, and
did finally succeed in popularizing Alexander's Rag-
time Band. Today we make almost as many jazz-
band records in London as in the United States.
"Whenever Americans have had a chance to hear
marimba music, Hawaiian music and like novelties
they generally take to them on their merits. The
principal obstacle to a wider sale of foreign novelties
in the Lhiited States is the peculiar system we have
for making popular American selections. A music
publisher brings out a certain song. Free profes-
sional copies are sent to bands and orchestras all over
the country, singers are taught the song in Tinpan
Alley, and in some cases paid to sing it. The dealer
in music as well as phonograph records has been
taught to gauge everything by popularity already
created.
"Mexicans write waltzes that I consider second to
only those of Vienna; but speak to the dealer about
stocking a Mexican waltz and he asks suspiciously
'Is there any demand for it?' Occasionally a foreign
composition arrives on sheer merit, but it takes a
long time.
"There is the popular waltz, Three o'Clock in the
Morning, as an illustration. It was written by a
REMICK SONG HITS
Falling
Just a Little Blue
Barney Google
Beside a Babbling Brook
My Buddy
Carolina in the Morning
Dream Melody
Sweet One
Rocky Mountain Moon
When Will I Know
Everything is K. O. in K. Y.
Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Lovable Eyes
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
2054-2060 W.Lake St., Chicago, 111.-,
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).