The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
AUGUST RELEASES.
1825—America First, Last and Always—
Fox Trot.
1816 Bells of Hawaii—Waltz.
1826—Doll Dance—Fox Trot.
1823 Do You Love Me? (When Skies
Are Grey)—Fox Trot.
1810 Gorgeous—Fox Trot.
1814 Hallelujah!—One Step.
1817 Hawaiian Love—Marimba Waltz.
1818 Honolulu Honeymoon — Marimba
Waltz.
1815 Just Once Again—Fox Trot.
1822 Just Wond'ring—Marimba Waltz.
1819 Lazy Weather—Fox Trot.
1827 One Sweet Letter from You—Blue
Fox Trot.
1820 She's Got It—Fox Trot.
1828 Under the Moon—Fox Trot.
1821 Vo-do-do-de-o—Blues.
1824 When Day Is Done—Fox Trot.
1811 Where the Wild, Wild Flowers
Grow—Fox Trot.
1812 You Don't Like It—Not M u c h -
Fox Trot.
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
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P R E S T O-TI M E S
August 20, 1927.
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedne Ave. t CHICAGO, ILL
(Formarly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
Away (fox trot—vocal chorus), Hill Top Inn Or-
chestra.
Wherever You Go—Whatever You Do (fox trot—
vocal chorus), Bobby Jones and His Orchestra, and
Prime Fitness of Professional and Amateur St. Louis Blues (blues), Bobby Jones and His Or-
chestra.
Musicians on Sales Force an Acknowl-
Champion Popular Vocal—Lindbergh (The Eagle
edged Fact in Trade Today.
of The U. S. A.) (vocal), Vernon Dalhart; Sweet
The sale's the thing in the band instrument busi- Marie (vocal solo with recitatif), Walter Lyboult.
Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)
ness and the demonstrations by expert players are
(vocal solo), Horace Winters, and Side by Side (vocal
potent features in accomplishing them. So the sales
solo), Horace Winters.
field invites the professional and amateur players and
many who give the sales department a try-out are
Rain (popular vocal), Les Backer, and Gorgeous
induced, for many reasons, to "stay for keeps."
(popular vocal), Les Backer.
Champion Standard Vocal—Can't Yo' Heah Me
The practical musician who enters the business of
selling the instruments, one or more of which he is Callin' (standard vocal), Gold Medal Four, and Old
able to play, comes equipped with an important re- Black Joe (standard vocal), Gold Medal Four.
Champion Old Time Singin' and Playin'—Be Kind
quirement for success in his work. Many men after
years of playing in orchestras, on the road or in a to a Man When He Is Down (old time singin' and
fixed location, tire of the work as a life job and seek playin'), Stanley Miller) and Little Red Caboose Be-
hind the Train (old time singin' and playin'), The
a position in selling the instruments.
Clinch Valley Boys.
It is a common notion that the person with the
Little Brown Jug (old time vocal). Smilin" Tubby
artistic instinct is temperamentally unfitted for a
Johnson,
and Don't Forget Me Little Darling (old
business career. That the painter's, sculptor's, musi-
cian's, or actor's instinct for his art, per se makes time singin' and playin'), David Miller.
A Mother's Advice (old time singin' and playin'),
him a commercial dub. It may be accepted as a
generalization, but the music trade knows that the Harvey Watson, and Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet
(old time singin' and playin'), Harvey Watson.
theory is refuted in a great number of instances.
Champion Old Time Playin'—Forked Deer (old
Former soloists of distinction now set the pace in
sales for musical merchandise salesmen and dealers time playin'), The Tennessee Travelers, and Wander-
ing Boy (old time fiddle playin'), John Burham.
who never had the slightest urge to toot a bugle of
Champion Race Records—Yellow Dog Blues (race
any kind.
record vocal blues), Jim Foster, and Riverside Blues
The spread of the band spirit has given the former
(race record vocal blues), Jim Foster.
professional musicians on the sales force a splendid
My Man Left Me Blues (race record vocal blues),
opportunity for giving proof of their commercial abil-
Rose Tate, and Don't Think That You Got Your
ity. It may be that the band spirit owes its spread Man All By Yourself (race record vocal blues), Rose
to the peculiar mixture of talents in the ex-pro. Tate.
Anyway he is particularly well fitted to negotiate
My Low Down Brown (race record vocal blues),
with amateur musicians confronted with the problem
Lizzie Washington, and East Coast Blues (race rec-
of selecting an outfit and arranging ways to pay ord vocal blues), Lizzie Washington.
for it.
Champion Specials—After I Gave My Heart to
An ex-professional bandsman, now a successful You (whistling novelty), The Clifton Beach Enter-
manager of a band instrument department for a tainers, and When the Bo-Tree Blossoms Again
progressive southwestern music house, has within the
(from "Lucky"), (whistling novelty), The Clifton
past year not only helped to organize twelve bands
Beach Entertainers.
in his city and adjacent communities but in every
Repasz Band March (Hawaiian), The Wailuku
case gave his services as instructor free while the
Serenaders, and Indiana March (Hawaiian instru-
amateurs were learning the fundamentals of playing. ments), The Wailuku Serenaders.
The playing was fairly good when the instruments
were paid for. Then, as a rule, the finances per-
ANNOUNCES ORGAN JAZZ.
mitted the services of a paid band leader suggested
The Forster Music Publisher, Inc., Chicago, 111.,
by the first gratuitous teacher.
has taken over the publishing of "Organ Jazz," a
While this musician-salesman continues to conduct course of twenty lessons in jazz idioms for organ by
one of the twelve bands, now an eighty-piece organ- Edward Eigenschenk, edited by Frank Van Dusen.
ization of the proficiency of which he naturally is
proud, he works considerably for sales among musi-
cians. His acquaintance in the profession is a great
asset. His ability to play the instruments and his
sympathetic feeling as an artist binds the amateurs
to h:'m. Apart from his zest for sales he feels a genu-
ine interest in the progress of the latter. It is a
delightfully personal thing that daily increases the
Just Like a Butterfly.
circle of his customers.
SALES BY BANDMEN
REMICK SONG HITS
NEW CHAMPION RECORDS
Fine List of Electrograph Music of the Gen-
nett Line Includes Alluring Dances,
Vocals and Special Numbers.
The following are new Champion Electrograph rec-
ords of the Gennett series for August :
Champion Dance Hits—Lady Do (black bottom
rhythm—vocal chorus), The Alabama Serenaders, and
Yes She Do (No She Don't) (fox trot—vocal chorus),
Gordon Grimes and His Orchestra.
Love and Kisses (fox trot—vocal chorus), The
Alabama Serenaders, and Side by Side (fox trot—
vocal chorus), Champion Dance Kings.
I'm in Love Again (fox trot—vocal chorus), The
Alabama Serenaders, and You Know I Love You
(fox trot—vocal chorus), The Georgia Collegians.
I'm Back in Love Again (fox trot), Gordon Grimes
and His Orchestra, and Red Lips Kiss My Blues
The Whisper Song.
Four Leaf Clover.
Moonbeam, Kiss Her for Me.
Hello, Cutie.
I'll Take Care of Your Cares.
All I Want Is You.
I Need Lovin'.
Blame It on the Waltz.
Hello, Blue Bird.
I've Gotta Get Myself Somebody to Love.
I'm Back in. Love Again.
The Night of Love.
Cabarabia.
When Will We Meet Again.
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