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January 29, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
30024 Au Matin, Op. 83—key E flat, Godard
(Adler).
30250 Swing Song, L'Escarpolette—key A, Barnes
(Frohm).
March (instrumental):
30175 National Emblem March—key C, Bagley
(Stevens).
30201 Repasz Band, march—key C, Sweeley
(Lutter).
The best selling popular numbers in the Gulbran-
sen catalog are: Black Bottom, Do-Do-Do, Oh, Kay,
Hugh, Hugh Up in the Hills, If All the Stars Were
Pretty Babies, Je T'Aime Means, I Love You, Lay
Me Down to Sleep in Carolina, The Little White
House, Moonlight on the Ganges and When I Am in
Your Arms.
The best selling Fireside Songs in the catalog are:
A Dream, Annie Laurie, A Perfect Day, Ben Bolt,
Carry Me Back 'to Old Virginny, Drink to Me Only
with Thine Eyes, Home, Sweet Home, In the Gloam-
ing, Old Black Toe, and The Sweetest Story Ever
Told.
NEW QULBRANSEN ROLLS
Fine List for February Comprises Dances,
Ballads, Negro Spirituals, Marches and
Salon Instrumental Music.
GOOD ADVERTISING PAYS
Extract from a Letter Tells of the Effect of Trade
Paper Publicity That Pulls.
It isn't often that Presto-Times draws special at-
tention to the work this paper is doing for the trade.
Following is an indorsement of trade paper adver-
tising which came this week from one of the pro-
gressive manufacturers of novelties and scarfs:
"Your advertising has been a wonderful help to us.
We have received numbers of inquiries and have
opened quite a few accounts from the inquiries re-
ceived. We have also received inquiries from piano'
travelers asking about the selling of our line, and
any publicity that you can give us will be very much
aopreciated. ?--->d in time to come, we hcpe to be in
por.';!,,.i to do more advertising in your paper."
The February bulletin of new Gulbransen music
rolls has been issued by the Gulbransen Music Roll
Corporation, 599 Eleventh avenue, New York. The
name of the recording artist is printed in parentheses:
Dance (word rolls) are as follows:
20251 All I Want Is You, fox trot—key B flat,
Akst (Nolan).
20245 Here or There as Long As I'm with You.
foxtrot—key E flat, Davis-Greer (Wehrlen).
20244 He's the Last Word, fox trot—Key F, Don-
aldson (Stevens).
20243 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the Bees How
The sheet music department of Grant's, Toledo, O. T
I Love You, fox trot—key G, Brown-Friend (Rich-
keeps a list of "This Week's Best Sellers" in a promi-
mund).
nent position in the department.
20246 Love's Melody, waltz—key E Hat, Rathje-
PLAN CONVENTION CONTEST.
Stevens-Osborn (Nolan).
20250 Moonbeam! Kiss Her for Me, fox t r o t -
A leading feature of the convention of the Western
key F, Woods (Wehrlen).
Music Trade Association in San Francisco, in July,
NEW SPARKLING SONGS FOR YOUR
20242 One Alone, "The Desert Song." fox t r o t - will be the Pacific Coast High School Band contest,
COUNTERS
the details of which are being arranged by the fol-
key A flat, Romberg (Stevens).
20249 Sam, the Old Accordion Man, fox trot— lowing committee: E. J. Delano, Sherman, Clay &
Your Arms Are Home Sweet Home to Me.
Co., San Francisco, chairman; Daniel F. Miller, Conn
Yes, Dreams Come True. (Waltz Ballad.)
key G, Donaldson (Wehrlen).
We Don't Know Where We're Going:. (Comic.)
20247 Tell Me Tonight, fox trot—key G, Connor- San Francisco Co., San Francisco; Henry Grobe, San
memories
Dream. (Very Flensing; Ballad.)
Francisco; J. H. Lee, Oakland; Dewey Waters, San
Little (Osborne).
My Heart Calls, My I,ove, Come Back, Be True.
Francisco;
Earl
Stone,
Los
Angeles;
H.
P.
Mulhol-
20248 You Know—I Know Everything's made for
The Man That Catcher Me MiiKt Have the Good
land, Seattle, Wash., and F. A. Sieberling, Port-
Hard Cash. (Now All the Rage.)
Love, fox trot—key E flat. Johnson-Tobias-Sherman
land, Ore.
(Osborne).
Our catalog Is coming to the front from all point*
of U. S. A. Write for our special trade rates.
Standard and popular ballads (word rolls):
2O109 Silver Threads Among the Gold, key B flat.
ARMY BANDS BILL. .
J. S. UNGER MUSIC HOUSE, Music Pub.
Danks (Jones).
The new Army Bands Bill now before the House
Reading, Pa.
20254 My Laddie, a Scotch love song—key E flat, would restore the status of the rank and tile and
Thayer (Haase).
band leaders of both Army and National Guard
20255 Rags, popular ballad—key E flat, Silver- bands to that which existed prior to the passage of
Fain-Richman (Jones).
the National Defense Act of 1916. Walter Damrosch,
Negro Spirituals (word rolls) :
conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra,
20252 Steal Away—key E flat (Haase).
and Lieut. Commander John Philip Sousa, endorse
20253 All God's Chillun Got Shoes—key A flat,
the bill.
(Haase).
Salon (instrumental) :
IMPORTANT MEETING ANNOUNCED.
The W T ood Industries Division of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers will hold a session
on February 25 at Room 2 of the society's building at
29 West Thirty-ninth street, New York, according to
an announcement made last week by B. H. Bilhuber
of Steinway & Sons, New York, who is secretary of
the division. Many interesting papers will be read.
REMICK SONG HITS
Baby Face
Breezing Along with the Breeze
For My Sweetheart
Here I Am
Bye Bye Black Bird
Hi Ho the Merrio
Blame It on the Waltz
Who Could Be More Wonderful Than
You
My Heart Will Tell Me So
Cover Me Up with Sunshine
Don't Be Angry
Here Comes Fatima
Look Out Here Comes My Cookie
Tami Ami Trail
I'm in Love with You That's Why
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which to pay his fare, may reclaim his instrument by
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identifying it and refunding the loan, the police have
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