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April 30, 1927.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
75c—LATE RELEASES—75c
1694 A Little Music in the Moonlight
—Fox Trot
1673 Candy Lips—Fox Trot
1686 Don't Forget the Pal You Left at
Home—Marimba Waltz
1683 Elsie Schultz-En-Heim—Fox Trot
1682 Give Me a Ukulele—Fox Trot
1661 Gone Again Gal—Fox Trot
1685 Knows His Groceries—Fox Trot
1690 Hello, Swanee! Hello!—Fox Trot
1696 How Could Red Riding Hood?—
Fox Trot
1695 I Don't Mind Being Alone—Fox
Trot
1691 If Tears Could Bring You Back to
Me—Fox Trot
1684 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the
Bees—Fox Trot
1687 It Made You Happy When You
Made Me Cry—Fox Trot
1674 I've Got the Girl—Fox Trot
1689 My Baby Knows How—Fox Trot
1693 My Girl Has Eye Trouble—Fox
Trot
1688 Oh, How She Could Play a Uku-
lele—Fox Trot
1675 Original Black Bottom D a n c e
1679 She's Still My Baby—Fox Trot
1672 Sidewalk Blues
1678 Susie's Feller—Fox Trot
1680 Tonight You Belong to Me—Waltz
1676 Trail of Dreams—Waltz
1697 When I First Met Mary—Fox Trot
1681 When I'm in Your Arms—Fox
Trot
1682 Within the Prison of My Dreams
—Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
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JUNE MEL=O=DEE ROLLS
New Bulletin of Dances, Instrumental Rolls and Bal-
lads for Sixth Month of 1927.
In the following list of Mel-O-Dee music rolls
for June the names of the recording artists are printed
in parentheses:
Word Rolls—Collette, fox trot, Abel Baer
(Willard and Crowe); Forgive Me, fox trot,
Milton Ager (Frank Banta); I'll Always Re-
member You, fox trot, Jesse Greer
(Rube
Bloom); The More We Are Together, fox trot,
Irving King (Phil Ohman); My Idea of Heaven
Is to Be in Love with You, fox trot, Johnson, Sher-
man and Tobias (Alan Moran); Red Lips, Kiss My
Blues Away, fox trot, Bryan, Monaco and Wendling
(Muriel Pollack); Russian Lullaby, key F, waltz,
Irving Berlin (Constance Mering); Silver Moon,
from "My Maryland," key F, waltz, Zigmund Rom-
berg (Phil Ohman); Wistful and Blue, fox trot,
Julian Davidson (Phil Ohman).
Instrumental Rolls—Arizona Moonlight Waltz,
waltz, Gene Redewill (Gene Redewill); Doll Dance,
fox trot, Nacio Herb Brown (Constance Mering).
Ballads—Kentucky Babe, Adam Geibel (Frank
Milne); Little Bluebird of My Heart, Frank Grey
(Frank Grey); Love Waltz, from "The Love of
Sunya," Maurice Jacquet (Maurice Jacquet).
FIDDLE MAKING HIS HOBBY
Inventor of Stanley Motor, Now Seventy-eight, Re-
turns to Old Joyful Pastime.
After 78 years of activity the latest hobby of
Freeland O. Stanley of Stanley motor fame, is vio-
lins. A modern workshop is maintained at his estate
in Newton, Mass., and there with the aid of expert
advice from famous musicians he makes violins.
The first instrument he built was made in 1865,
when he was a lad of 16 living in Kingsfield, Me.
This violin occupies a place of honor in his shop.
Carlton F. Stanley, a nephew of the former auto-
mobile manufacturer, is also apt at the hobby of mak-
ing violins, and works with his uncle. The two
have spent years in experimenting with varnishes
alone.
A "citizen" jury composed of musician friends of
the Stanleys, test the violins to determine their musi-
cal quality. If the tone does not suit these masters,
then the instrument is rebuilt. Fine-grained maple
and other grades of the same wood are used, and
the finished products are supposed to be of uniform
quality.
POPULAR SONG HITS
Songs of the Not-Long-Past Which Are Still Raging
for Radio Fans.
"How old is a popular song?" asks a radio writer
whose subject is "Song Hits of the Past Decade."
"Old" favorites, which just a few short years ago
were enthralling audiences and being hummed and
strummed from coast to coast contain some that will
•never wholly die.
The musical decade that lies in the period just
before the entry of radio upon the national scene as
an entertainment medium has now been supplanted
by the rapid-fire song hits, which follow one another
in quick succession. To recall the old-time hits it is
necessary to remember the following, and they are
not so very old:
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," sung by Charles
Harrison and Elliott Shaw; "Look for the Silver
Lining," with Virginia Rea and Mr. Harrison sing-
ing, and "The Love Nest," with Miss Rea and Lewis
James. Others include: "Shade of a Palm," from
"Florodora"; "I'm Just Wild About Harry," from
"Shuffle Along"; "Wonderful One"; "Yellow Dog
Blues"; "Sunshine of Your Smile"; medley, "Oh Me,
Oh My," from "Two Little Girls in Blue"; I Never
Knew"; "Rose of Washington Square"; Sweet Lady,"
from "Tangerine"; "Second Hand Re.se," from "Fol-
lies of 1921"; "Dark Town Strutters' Ball"; "Your
Eyes Have Told Me So"; "Dardanella"; "Poor But-
terfly," from "Big Show"; "Alice Blue Gown," from
"Irene"; "Limehouse Blues," from "Chariot's Revue";
"Allah's Holiday," from "Katinka"; "'Till We Meet
Again"; "March of the Toys."
CONN DEALERS MEET JUNE I
Convention of Representatives from All Over the
Country to Continue Four Lively Days.
A convention of the dealers of C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Elkhart, Ind., will be held in that city June 1 to 4,
when a big representation is expected. Among those
scheduled for an address is Major George W. Lan-
ders, who originated the movement for the creation
of band tax laws. Major Landers will discuss the
band law situation at the present time and deliver
a stimulative address on the band promotion topic.
Every day will have its interesting program of talks
and discussions in the business sessions and its social
events. A banquet at the Hotel Elkhart followed
by a dance of Friday, June 3, will be the joyful con-
clusion of the convention. But many personal con-
ferences will take place Saturday, June 4, on which
day lake trips and other enjoyments will be pro-
vided. Many dealers plan to go directly after the
Elkhart convention to take part in the big trade
meeting at the Hotel Stevens in Chicago, where the
C. G. Conn exhibit will be among the most important.
COPYRIGHT FOR MIMEO COPY
Amendment to Copyright Law in Sixty-ninth Con-
gress Permitted Recognition of Mimeographers.
The chief feature of copyright legislation enacted
by the Sixty-ninth Congress is contained in an amend-
ment of existing law which permits copyright regis-
tration of a number of works printed or produced
in the. United States by mimeograph, photostat or
other similar processes as well as from type set.
"Several amendments were proposed to 'the copy-
right law, but this was the only one that became
law. It is Public Law 464, introduced in the House
as House Bill No. 10774. It effected a very simple
amendment of section IS, of the Copyright Act of
March 4, 1909. That 1909 Act requires that books
copyrighted shall be from type set or plate process
wholly performed within the United States and
printed and bound within the United States. Its
only proviso excepted books printed with raised let-
ters for the use of the blind and English books seek-
ing ad interim protection under the Act. The last
part of the proviso was for the protection of books
published abroad for four months during process of
reproduction in 'this country."
PAPER SAXOPHONES NOT TOYS.
Musical instruments, such as paper saxophones,
small brass horns, trombones, etc., upon which a
complete octave can be played, are properly dutiable
at the rate of 40 per cent ad valorem under paragraph
1443, Tariff Act of 1922, as musical instruments, and
not as toys, at 70 per cent ad valorem under para-
graph 1414, the United States Customs Court has
ruled. The decisions sustained protests of George
Borgfeldt & Co., Portland, Ore., Sears, Roebuck &
Co., of Seattle, and Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago.
VENEER MAN'S OUTLOOK.
E. J. Fishbaugh, veneer and mosaic veneer sales-
man, has been in Chicago this week. Mr. Fishbaugh
sees many indications of renewed activities in piano
manufacturing and the general music industries in
the near future.
The Lefax Music Shoppe & Studio, Detroit, has
taken over the Surchet Musique Shoppe, at 6507
Grand River avenue, which will be operated as a
complete music store.
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