Presto
Issue: 1934 2273 - Page 8
July-August, 1934
PRESTO-TIMES
PUBLISHERS
COMPOSERS
OUR LINE OF PUBLICATIONS
Will Bring Business to You
are by Howard A. Ballard.- It is issued and copy-
righted by Mr. Ballard at Napa, California. The ac-
companiment lias a ukulele arrangement. It is a two
verse song in three-quarter time with a real waltz
swing in the refrain. It is a catchy piece; rather easy
of execution and will please singer, listener and public.
Presto-Times, therefore, compliments the author of
these first lines of the song: "Sing those old love
songs, when day is done."
GENERAL OFFICES NATIONAL ASSOCIA-
TION OF SHEET MUSIC DEALERS
The office of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers is located at 325 W. 75th street, New
York City,- where the permanent secretary and treas-
urer of the Association, Mr. Thomas J. Donlan, is
located.
COMMENT ON COMPOSER-PUBLISHER
SITUATION
Many composers of SOURS and various forms of
instrumental music; compositions for piano, hand and
orchestra ensemble, etc., issue their own publications
individually, that is to say they have their composi-
tions issued independent of publishing houses. This
course is generally taken when the publisher does not
find the music submitted to be of a kind that would
attain popularity or be a success as a selling piece
of music in the trade or profession that he is par-
ticularly interested in catering to. This view is quite
correct on their part but does not meet with the ex-
pectations of composer and lyricist.
Many compositions entirely meritorious musically
and lyrically do not attract attention or fit in with
requirements of today; in a word many of them are
of too good quality, as musical compositions, to get
on the avenue of popularity and produce the profits
required. Other pieces submitted to publishers are
of no earthly use to anyone and would do more harm
if published than left unpublished; no publisher would
risk a penny to try to put things of this kind on
the market.
These conditions, therefore, influence composers to
get out music independently of regular publishing
houses, the small ones as well as the big and power-
ful ones, trusting to link up with an establishment
somewhere who is able to help extend their sales.
Generally these composers are assured of a certain
amount of sales and for further success they trust to
publicity in varioas ways and to properly placed an-
nouncements and advertising. Oftentimes the re-
sults are satisfactory and in many cases good profits
ensue. Presto-Times has accepted advertisements
of compositions of merit from composer-publisher
sources and has done not a little to help the sale,
publicity and popularity of a good many such pieces.
A NEW PATRIOTIC MARCH SONG
Patriotic songs are always in vogue. Other songs
and other ditties may come and go but the songs
of the nation keep with us and get weaved into our
nature and our general make-up.
The song that carries with it the patriotic senti-
ment of the march and tramp of the soldier boy and
the "marching along together" spirit of school boy
and school girl is always welcome and if such a
composition be well adapted to the uses intended so
as to make it singable and likable, a good demand will
follow.
Presto-Times has on the editor's desk at this writ-
ing just about such a piece of sheet music. It is en-
titled "Our Roosevelt." And what an appropriate title
for today or, who say to the contrary, for a genera-
tion to come. At any rate it is a good song, a good
march and if any one boy, girl, man, woman or child,
cannot step along to the march and military spirit of
the piece such a one must be classed with those that
"have no music in their souls." An announcement of
the "Our Roosevelt" march song appears in this issue
of Presto-Times, to which kindlv refer.
A really pretty and meritorious song has come to
Presto-Times Sheet Music Box; not only good
musically but a song of sentiment and love that can
reach the heart of the listener. The title is "That Old
Fashioned Love Song," the words and music of which
The Otto Zimmerman & Son Company, probably
the largest and most extensive music printing and
engraving house of the country, located at Cincinnati.
Ohio, is sending out to their friends in the trade an
appropriate folder and blotter bearing an imprint with
the caption "Music." The first paragraph of this
inscription reads:
Servant and master am 1: servant of those dead,
and master of those living. Through me spirits im-
mortal speak the message that makes the world
weep, and laugh, and wonder and worship.
And the last paragraph as follows:
I know no brother yet all men are my brothers;
1 am father of the best that is in them, and they
are fathers of the best that is in me; 1 am of them,
and they are of me. For 1 am the instrument of
God.
Publishers, firms and individuals desiring anything
done in the line of sheet music work or any kind of
music printing and engraving will find it to their ad-
vantage to correspond with this house, the Otto
Zimmerman & Son Company, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.
ASK YOUR JOBBER
Thousands of Music Dealers will profit from
sales on this new number.
THAT OLD-FASHIONED LOVE SONG
Music for Bands, Orchestras, Drum Corps,
VOCAL MUSIC IN GREAT VARIETY
Let Us Tell You How to Sell Music and
Make Money.
Every Dealer Should Sell Musical Publications
M. WITMARK & SONS
619 West 54th Street
New York City
Suite 600 Lyon & Healy Bldg.,
Chicago, Illinois
ENTERTAINMENT MATERIAL
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
OPERETTAS,
M 1 S K A L COMEDIES, MINSTRELS,
PLAYS, KTC, ETC.
SONGS FOR KVKRY OCCASION
OIK LINK SKLLS READILY
T. S. DENISON & COMPANY
6'Zii S. Wulnisli Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
Music Settinss For Words
Suitable and pleasing music set to words;
Verse-Lyrics; solo and piano accompaniment;
for male or female voices, any range,
$5.00 to $10.00
Catchy settings to words that will appeal to
intelligent singers.
Compositions corrected and made ready for
press. Let us know what you want and we
will suggest what can be done with your com-
position to help make it popular and salable,
and name rate for service you require.
Address:
Musical Settings and Compositions
c / o Presto-Times, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago
"The Waltz You'll Like to Play"
Its sweetness, simplicity. SMOOTHNESS,
wins tremendous applause on the Dance Floor.
New Arrangements.
PIANO COPY (a beautiful arr.)
35c
DANCE ORCHESTRATION (14 hist.) 5 0 c
BAND ARRANGEMENT (36 parts)
50c
(1'RKI'AID)
ASK YOUR JOBBER for Dealers' Prices,
or write—
A NEW WALTZ HIT
that's going great in the musical world.
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN MOON"
To introduce this beautiful waltz, we will send a regu-
lar 35c piano copy (with words) postpaid, for 2 dimes.
OFFER GOOD MARCH, 1934
Special Prices to Jobbers and Dealers.
MERLIN E. HIARING
Musical Publisher
MADISON, S. DAK.
HOWARD A. BALLARD
CALIFORNIA
NAPA,
That O l d Fashioned Love Song
Sweet and Smooth Waltz Tune
NEW ARRANGEMENTS
"The Greatest School March
Song Written in Years* 9
"OUR ROOSEVELT"
for piano, orchestra
arrangement.
You wiil
Address
like
(and vocal)
any one of those
and band
arrangements.
HOWARD A. BALLARD, Napa, Calif.
Now Ussd by Many Schools in
the East and Middle West.
Ask your Leading Music Store or send
25c in coin or stamps to the Publisher
JAMES F. LANGAN
8219 Woodland Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio
OUR ROOSEVELT
MUSICIANS NOTICE!
Compose, Arrange, Make Money
Our new Twenty-Lesson-Course in compos-
ing and arranging, highly recommended by
publishers and musicians, is now ready.
Send today for free information.
ED CHENETTE
Major
DE KALB, ILLINOIS
The words and music are by two well-known ladies
of Duluth, Minn.
Publishers, composers, copyright owners and others
desiring announcement of new publications at the spe-
cial rates made by this paper, should submit a copy
of the compositions to be advertised for reviewers'
attention. Rates and all particulars will be furnished
upon application to
PRESTO-TIMES, Chicago
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PRESTO-TIMES
PUBLISHERS
COMPOSERS
OUR LINE OF PUBLICATIONS
Will Bring Business to You
are by Howard A. Ballard.- It is issued and copy-
righted by Mr. Ballard at Napa, California. The ac-
companiment lias a ukulele arrangement. It is a two
verse song in three-quarter time with a real waltz
swing in the refrain. It is a catchy piece; rather easy
of execution and will please singer, listener and public.
Presto-Times, therefore, compliments the author of
these first lines of the song: "Sing those old love
songs, when day is done."
GENERAL OFFICES NATIONAL ASSOCIA-
TION OF SHEET MUSIC DEALERS
The office of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers is located at 325 W. 75th street, New
York City,- where the permanent secretary and treas-
urer of the Association, Mr. Thomas J. Donlan, is
located.
COMMENT ON COMPOSER-PUBLISHER
SITUATION
Many composers of SOURS and various forms of
instrumental music; compositions for piano, hand and
orchestra ensemble, etc., issue their own publications
individually, that is to say they have their composi-
tions issued independent of publishing houses. This
course is generally taken when the publisher does not
find the music submitted to be of a kind that would
attain popularity or be a success as a selling piece
of music in the trade or profession that he is par-
ticularly interested in catering to. This view is quite
correct on their part but does not meet with the ex-
pectations of composer and lyricist.
Many compositions entirely meritorious musically
and lyrically do not attract attention or fit in with
requirements of today; in a word many of them are
of too good quality, as musical compositions, to get
on the avenue of popularity and produce the profits
required. Other pieces submitted to publishers are
of no earthly use to anyone and would do more harm
if published than left unpublished; no publisher would
risk a penny to try to put things of this kind on
the market.
These conditions, therefore, influence composers to
get out music independently of regular publishing
houses, the small ones as well as the big and power-
ful ones, trusting to link up with an establishment
somewhere who is able to help extend their sales.
Generally these composers are assured of a certain
amount of sales and for further success they trust to
publicity in varioas ways and to properly placed an-
nouncements and advertising. Oftentimes the re-
sults are satisfactory and in many cases good profits
ensue. Presto-Times has accepted advertisements
of compositions of merit from composer-publisher
sources and has done not a little to help the sale,
publicity and popularity of a good many such pieces.
A NEW PATRIOTIC MARCH SONG
Patriotic songs are always in vogue. Other songs
and other ditties may come and go but the songs
of the nation keep with us and get weaved into our
nature and our general make-up.
The song that carries with it the patriotic senti-
ment of the march and tramp of the soldier boy and
the "marching along together" spirit of school boy
and school girl is always welcome and if such a
composition be well adapted to the uses intended so
as to make it singable and likable, a good demand will
follow.
Presto-Times has on the editor's desk at this writ-
ing just about such a piece of sheet music. It is en-
titled "Our Roosevelt." And what an appropriate title
for today or, who say to the contrary, for a genera-
tion to come. At any rate it is a good song, a good
march and if any one boy, girl, man, woman or child,
cannot step along to the march and military spirit of
the piece such a one must be classed with those that
"have no music in their souls." An announcement of
the "Our Roosevelt" march song appears in this issue
of Presto-Times, to which kindlv refer.
A really pretty and meritorious song has come to
Presto-Times Sheet Music Box; not only good
musically but a song of sentiment and love that can
reach the heart of the listener. The title is "That Old
Fashioned Love Song," the words and music of which
The Otto Zimmerman & Son Company, probably
the largest and most extensive music printing and
engraving house of the country, located at Cincinnati.
Ohio, is sending out to their friends in the trade an
appropriate folder and blotter bearing an imprint with
the caption "Music." The first paragraph of this
inscription reads:
Servant and master am 1: servant of those dead,
and master of those living. Through me spirits im-
mortal speak the message that makes the world
weep, and laugh, and wonder and worship.
And the last paragraph as follows:
I know no brother yet all men are my brothers;
1 am father of the best that is in them, and they
are fathers of the best that is in me; 1 am of them,
and they are of me. For 1 am the instrument of
God.
Publishers, firms and individuals desiring anything
done in the line of sheet music work or any kind of
music printing and engraving will find it to their ad-
vantage to correspond with this house, the Otto
Zimmerman & Son Company, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.
ASK YOUR JOBBER
Thousands of Music Dealers will profit from
sales on this new number.
THAT OLD-FASHIONED LOVE SONG
Music for Bands, Orchestras, Drum Corps,
VOCAL MUSIC IN GREAT VARIETY
Let Us Tell You How to Sell Music and
Make Money.
Every Dealer Should Sell Musical Publications
M. WITMARK & SONS
619 West 54th Street
New York City
Suite 600 Lyon & Healy Bldg.,
Chicago, Illinois
ENTERTAINMENT MATERIAL
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
OPERETTAS,
M 1 S K A L COMEDIES, MINSTRELS,
PLAYS, KTC, ETC.
SONGS FOR KVKRY OCCASION
OIK LINK SKLLS READILY
T. S. DENISON & COMPANY
6'Zii S. Wulnisli Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
Music Settinss For Words
Suitable and pleasing music set to words;
Verse-Lyrics; solo and piano accompaniment;
for male or female voices, any range,
$5.00 to $10.00
Catchy settings to words that will appeal to
intelligent singers.
Compositions corrected and made ready for
press. Let us know what you want and we
will suggest what can be done with your com-
position to help make it popular and salable,
and name rate for service you require.
Address:
Musical Settings and Compositions
c / o Presto-Times, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago
"The Waltz You'll Like to Play"
Its sweetness, simplicity. SMOOTHNESS,
wins tremendous applause on the Dance Floor.
New Arrangements.
PIANO COPY (a beautiful arr.)
35c
DANCE ORCHESTRATION (14 hist.) 5 0 c
BAND ARRANGEMENT (36 parts)
50c
(1'RKI'AID)
ASK YOUR JOBBER for Dealers' Prices,
or write—
A NEW WALTZ HIT
that's going great in the musical world.
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN MOON"
To introduce this beautiful waltz, we will send a regu-
lar 35c piano copy (with words) postpaid, for 2 dimes.
OFFER GOOD MARCH, 1934
Special Prices to Jobbers and Dealers.
MERLIN E. HIARING
Musical Publisher
MADISON, S. DAK.
HOWARD A. BALLARD
CALIFORNIA
NAPA,
That O l d Fashioned Love Song
Sweet and Smooth Waltz Tune
NEW ARRANGEMENTS
"The Greatest School March
Song Written in Years* 9
"OUR ROOSEVELT"
for piano, orchestra
arrangement.
You wiil
Address
like
(and vocal)
any one of those
and band
arrangements.
HOWARD A. BALLARD, Napa, Calif.
Now Ussd by Many Schools in
the East and Middle West.
Ask your Leading Music Store or send
25c in coin or stamps to the Publisher
JAMES F. LANGAN
8219 Woodland Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio
OUR ROOSEVELT
MUSICIANS NOTICE!
Compose, Arrange, Make Money
Our new Twenty-Lesson-Course in compos-
ing and arranging, highly recommended by
publishers and musicians, is now ready.
Send today for free information.
ED CHENETTE
Major
DE KALB, ILLINOIS
The words and music are by two well-known ladies
of Duluth, Minn.
Publishers, composers, copyright owners and others
desiring announcement of new publications at the spe-
cial rates made by this paper, should submit a copy
of the compositions to be advertised for reviewers'
attention. Rates and all particulars will be furnished
upon application to
PRESTO-TIMES, Chicago
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).