25
PRESTO
October 6, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
HITS IN HEARST PRODUCTIONS
Theaters, Bands, Orchestras, Broadcasting Stations
Feature New Numbers of New York Publishers.
At the West End Theater, Harlem, New York,
Jack Sherman, the well-known baritone, is making
a decided hit with the Hearst numbers "Wonderful
Child" and "Beautiful Rose."
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At the Regent Theater, Paterson, N. J., Jimmy
THE COMBINED CIRCULATION
Moore, the lyric tenor, made a special feature of
"Wonderful Child" and "Beautiful Rose," taking re-
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS-
peated encores on both songs.
ICAL TIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR
Moore and Sherman featured the Hearst numbers
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF
at the WJY broadcasting station this week, making
a big success with "Wonderful Child," "Beautiful
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA-
Rose," "Home, My Lovin' Dixie Home," "She's Got
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT-
Another Daddy," "Always Looking for a Little Sun-
shine," "Many Years," "In the Land of Sweet Six-
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS-
and "Some Day You'll Cry Over Somebody
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS Interesting Features of the Popular Song Field De- teen"
Else."
scribed by Observant Traveler.
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB-
The Hearst numbers were sung the past two weeks
at
Remey's, The Roseland, Wilson's, Glover Gardens,
LISHERS.
"The best advertising for the Remick catalog is McAlpin
Hotel, Terrace Gardens, Marlborough
the wide character of the favor for the current hits Hotel,
the Moulin Rouge, the Peek Inn, the Nightin-
This department is designed to advance the sales, of the company," is the way a traveling man de-
of sheet music, and give any current information in scribed a situation this week. "There is no village so gale, Balconades, Tangoland, St. Nicholas Rink and
the Sheet Music Trade.
small, no crossroads so remote that 'Barney Google' Dreamland in New York, and at the Imperial Dance
This publication believes that Sheet Music will is not hummed, whistled and sung. One can gauge Hall, the Rosemont, Strand Dance Hall and Tanger-
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays the amount of sales for the sheet music by the man- ine Gardens in Brooklyn, making a decided impres-
those who merchandise it properly.
ner in which the whole country has become familiar sion on the different audiences, receiving many en-
The conductor of this department will review with the tune. Of course the uses by newspapers cores and much applause.
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It ii everywhere of the cartoon strip picturing humorous
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer- incidents in the sporting events of Barney and his
ings, giving particular information of the theme and entry, Spark Plug, helps, but the song itself has the
a description of the musical setting of the number pep to 'carry on' to phenomenal sales."
discussed.
"Big Blond Mama" is another song from Jerome A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Department Are Printed.
Music Dept, Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111. H. Remick & Co., which is achieving big sales in all
sections of the country. The song is by Billy Rose
The McKinley Music Co., Chicago, will soon re-
and Jimmy Moraco and is being featured in a strong
professional campaign. This accounts for the extent lease a comedy song called "Who Tucked in Tut?"
of the inquiries for the new number at sheet music by Jack Frost.
counters.
September sales in sheet music in the Glenn Bros.-
But Is Fed Up to Nausea on American Jazz, Accord-
Others from the catalog of Jerome H. Remick & Roberts Piano Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, exceeded
Co., to be featured in the same way are: "You Better those of any previous September, according to Miss
ing to Conductor Stock.
Stop Messin' 'Round," "Somebody's Wrong," "Tweet, Lucile Barton, manager of the -sheet music depart-
Having too much jazziness in its political affairs, Tweet," a new number by Egbert Van Alstyne and ment.
Europe is no longer attracted to American jazz music Haver Gilespie. Others are: "First, Last and Al-
Folk music has a large part in "Twice Fifty-five
importations, according to Frederick A. Stock, con- ways" and "Do You, Don't You, Will You, Won't Community Songs," published by C. C. Birchard
ductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who just You."
& Co.
returned to New York after a prolonged trip abroad.
George W. French, dealer in sheet music, Ionia,
A great musical renaissance, featuring several novel
Mich.,
has formed his business into a stock company
futuristic tendencies, is slowly but certainly replacing
with a capital of $10,000. Other lines of music
the flair for syncopation, which has gripped Europe
goods are carried.
since the war, Mr. Stock averred.
The Ray Stores Co., Salem, Mass., has added a
"Although jazz is dying out in Europe, the conti- Charge Brought by a New York Syndicate Letter sheet
music department.
nent still looks to this country for its ragtime and fox-
Writer May Call for Refutation.
trot melodies," Mr. Stock is quoted as saying in a
dispatch.
One of the many "syndicate" letter writers whose
"I observed that there was apparently a slow but daily or weekly fulminations fill space in the daily
insistent change in musical composition—a futuristic newspapers, is O. O. Mclntyre who recently had a
silly article on Hit Alley in the Cosmopolitan maga-
tendency that cannot be overlooked.
"Composers are striving to get away from the con- zine. In a recent letter Mr. Mclntyre brought the
following charge against the song-writers of New
York:
It has long been the gossip of Broadway that top-
Barney Google
notch song writers have the "yen"—which means
"Be First With a HEARST"
they are opium smokers. One of them I had not
Beside a Babbling Brook
seen for five or six years until the other evening. He
My Buddy
has grown shabby and furtive-eyed. He was in a
Carolina in the Morning
cheap cafe humming a tune that had helped make
Dream Melody
him famous for a group of hangers on. The hand
that held his drink shook like an aspen leaf.
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
If there is truth in the foregoing, then the song-
You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me
writers have changed mightily of late years. Per-
POPULAR
Big Blond Mamma
haps it is true that too steady straddling of Parnas-
First, Last and Always
In the Land of Sweet Sixteen (new)
sus may have brought the rag-time "kings" to a state
Some Day You'll Cry Over Some-
Somebody's Wrong
of
degeneracy.
Some
of
their
productions
seem
to
body Else (new)
Do You, Don't You, Will You,
suggest it. But if Mr. Mclntyre makes any of his
When She Talks About Seeing Father (new)
"strolls
about
New
York"
in
the
vicinity
of
Hit
Won't You?
If 1 Had You (new)
Alley, he may think he has been discovered by the
Tweet, Tweet
Many Years (new)
K. K. K. with their hoods omitted.
'Ginny (new)
Lou'siana
Wonderful Child
When
Will I Know
She's Got Another Daddy
Sweet One
REMICK HITS WIN.
Always Looking For a Little Sunshine
Home (My Lovin' Dixie Home)
Sally, Irene and Mary, now playing in three cities,
Beautiful Rose
has three song successes. These are published by
Lonesome Two
Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York. "Time Will
Just a Little Gold Watch and Chain
Tell," "I Wonder Why," and "How I've Missed You,
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Broken Hearts
Mary," are the hot favorites.
Piano Dreams (Instrumental Waltz)
Step (Instrumental One-Step)
Dansopation, Instrumental Fox Trot (new)
TO PUBLISHERS
ventional idea of the scale. They no longer deal with
diatonics and chromatics, but seem to be trying to
introduce at least three or possibly four intervals into
one whole step.
"Vienna is still undoubtedly the operative capital
of the world, despite the unhappy plight of its in-
habitants. In Germany and Austria music is a neces-
sity, affording a surcease from the social and eco-
nomic ills."
EXTENT OF REMICK FAVOR
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
EUROPE WANTS OUR FOX=TROTS
SONG WRITERS DOPE FIENDS?
REMICK SONG HITS
Songs gs Profits
J. H. REMICK & CO.
STANDARDS
Someone Like You (new)
Sunset, The Hills and You (new)
Mother, My Own (new)
Honey-Brown Eyes (new)
Love is Love For Ever
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