Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

46 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD May 10, 1930 BEST SELLERS Week Ending May 3 No. i “Stein Song ” — (Carl Fischer). No. 2 “When It’s Springtime” — (Villa Moret). No. 3 “Under a Texas Moon” — (Remick Music Corp.). “Should I” — (Robbins Music Corp.). “Cottage For Sale” — (De Sylva, Brown & Henderson). No. 4 “There’s Danger in Your Eyes” — (Irving Berlin). “Telling It to the Daisies” — (Remick Music Corp.). “Happy Days Are Here Again”— (Ager, Yellen & Bornsteoin). No. 5 “Blue Is the Night” — (Robbins Music Corp.). “Lazy Louisiana Moon” — Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble). “Hanging on a Garden Gate — (Witmark & Sons). “With You”— (Irving Berlin). “Kiss Me with Your Eyes”— (Villa Moret). “When I’m Looking at You” — (Robbins Music Corp.). “I’m Following You”— (Irving Berlin). “Watching My Dreams Go By” — ( Witmark & Sons). “Moon Is Low” — (Robbins Music Corp.). “Aren’t We All” — (De Sylva, Brown & Henderson). “If I Had a Talking” — (De Sylva, Brown & Henderson). “Beside An Open Fireplace”— (Santly Bros. Inc.). * * * “YOU DO” — (E. B. Marks Music Co.) — The first production of the well known song writer Joe E. Howard. This had its premiere in our town on April 20th. This is the song that is predicted to be the big one in the show. Lyrics by Frank Bannister and Jos. E. Howard, music by Frank Bannister. * # * “IF YOU DIDN’T CARE FOR ME (If I Didn’t Care for You”) — (Joe Morris) — A very good song written as a fox trot ballad. Ought to make a good dance. By Sherman Lewis and Smith Ballew. # # * “REMINISCING” — (Remick Music Corp.) — As the title denotes, it’s about a dreamer who thinks of his loved one. The lyric is excellent and the tune on a par. Lyric by Edgar Leslie, music by Harry Warren. * * * “YOU DARLIN’ ” — (Irving Berlin, Inc.) — A pretty fox trot tune with a good lyric. Looks commercial. By Harry Woods. * # v “ ’LEVEN-THIRTY SATURDAY NIGHT”— (Sherman Clay & Co.) — A hot tune that is getting a big play with the orchestras around town. Clever both as to melody and lyrics. By Earl Burtnett, Bill Grantham and Jess Kirkpatrick. * ❖ * “IN A JAPANESE GARDEN”— (Carl Fischer Music Co.) — An Oriental number written high class and beautiful. Should develop into a standard. Music by Wilbur Chenoweth, lyric by Marian Gillespie. ORGAN SOLOS Stanley Pinhero (Newark, N. J., Proctor’s Palace) presented a “Community Sing of Popular Choruses” as his 6olo feature this week. Mr. Pinhero, who has been at this house for a long time, has educated hie audience in the art of community singing and they need no other inducement other than a pleasingly played number for them all to start singing, and this is what Pinhero gives them. Using "Watching My Dreams Go By” to start them off, Pinhero then played “Funny Dear What Love Can Do,” "I Get the Blues When It Rains” and “Cryin’ for the Carolines.” Each number was interspersed with a clever gag slide which added greatly to the entertainment value. For the closing number Mr. Joe Fecher and his Palace Pit Orchestra assisted Pinhero in a chorus of “Cryin’ for the Carolines.” This “merging” of the organ and orchestra for the grand finale added greatly to the final number and is a good idea for theatres with both an organist and orchestra to follow. Mr. Pinhero has a great following here and at every performance is given a gratifying ovation. Will Gilroy (New York, Proctor’s 58th and 86th St. theatres). A slide bearing the words, "Sing a Song with Will Gilroy,” introduces Mr. Gilroy’s solos. And community singing, to which all sing, follows. This week Mr. Gilroy offered, “Sunnyside of the Street,” “Should I, Taint No Sin,” “Lazy Lou isiana Moon” and “One I Love Can’t Be Bothered with Me.” A good reception proves Gilroy’s popularity. Louise M. Roesch (Brooklyn Strand), who is rightly billed as the "Golden Voiced Organist,” offered a pleasing “mic” and singing novelty entitled “Love.” Miss Roesch opened her solo with an oral explanation of “Love,” and then followed with a well played chorus of “What Is This Thing Called Love,” “Funny Dear What Love Can Do” and “What Do I Care.” The second named number Miss Roesch beautifully sings and gets a great reception for it. Between each number, Miss Roesch proves her “showmanship” with clever talk and witticisms, which nowadays go a long way in putting organists over and making them popular. Incidentally, Miss Roesch has made herself more popular at this house than any previous organist who has been here. Bob West (Brooklyn Fox). West’s inaugural program of community singing was a huge success. He offered “Smile, Grin and Giggle” as the title for his first solo and opened with his usual enthusiastic greeting, orally and with the organ, which never fails to make the audience perk up and greet him as enthusiastically as he greets them. This, bis first day here, gained him a greater reception than has ever been accorded an organist, to this reviewer’s knowledge. West presented a group of singable numbers, starting with “Just Can’t Be Bothered with Me.” The other numbers were: “Should I,” "What Do I Care” and “Sunnyside Up.” A specially lyriced chorus of the words “HA-HA” to the tune “That’s My Weakness Now” and some clever gag slides injected between songs, added greatly to the entertainment value. At the close of this entertaining solo, the audience applauded and applauded, seemingly reluctant to have West stop. He could easily have taken an encore, but as this is not permitted in a deluxe house, the audience had to be content with about ten bows. THEME SONGS There are five potential song hits introduced by A1 Jolson in his newest Warner Bros, picture, “Mammy.” They are, “Let Me Sing,” “To My Mammy,” “Looking at You,” “Knights of the Road" and "Here We Are.” Written by Irving Berlin, they are introduced in the later sequences of the story, after Jolson, as end man in a minstrel troupe, has achieved some measure of success. Earlier in the picture Jolson sings such old favorites as “Mammy,” “The Albany Night Boat,” and “Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?” The picture, "Be Yourself,” featuring Fannie Brice, is virtually a song-fest, in which the super-songsaleslady of the land sells songs like she never has before. The numbers are, “Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love,” “Kickin’ a Hole in the Sky” and "When a Woman Loves a Man.” The songs are published by William Rose, Inc., a subsidiary of the Robbins Music Corporation, and are distributed by the latter firm. Hello, Everybody: Well the old spring bug is here again and all the boys are polishing their golf clubs and talking of sweet ocean breezes, etc., at least, nearly all. I know of one who pays little heed to the call of spring. Who is it? — Les Santly, of Santly Bros., who is so enthused over their newest acquisition, “Give Y'ourself a Pat on the Back” that he has no time for anything but that number. Santly’s have taken over the American and Canadian publishing rights to this number, which is the rage of England and undoubtedly will soon be the rage of this country and Canada. The song has a most pleasing melody and it’s one of those things called “naturals.” * # * Frank Goodman, president of the firm of Handman, Kent and Goodman, has just returned from a most successful trip to California, where he closed negotiations with Universal Film Co. to publish all their picture songs. Henceforth Handman, Kent & Good man will be known as the music publishers to the Universal Film Co. * * * Even the producers of stage-shows are now going in for song-writing. The latest is Louis McDermott, one of Publix ace producers, who has had his 6ong, “If I had a Girl Like You,*' accepted by Leo Feist, Inc. Incidently it is being sung by that great and beloved crooner of love ditties, Rudy Vallee. * # # A new song, “I’m Happy If You’re Happy,’’ published by Shapiro, Bernstein and Co., and written by Eddie Dowling, Benny Ross and Johnnie Sorrentino, is starting to be heard lately and sounds very good. Incidently, did you know that Benny Ross, who besides being Warner Brothers’ “ace” master of ceremonies and a good song writer, originally studied for an operatic career. He was a pupil of Binboni, formerly director of Hammerstein’s opera, and William Whitney, noted vocal pedagogue. Ross’ career on the stage of musical comedy began when he replaced Morton Downey in “Excess Baggage,” in the leading role. Since then he has played in vaudeville and is now known as Jersey City’s most popular m.c. * * * Mills Music Company is rushing through copies and orchestrations on “I’se Regusted,” a new novelty song by A1 Frazzini, Nat Madison and Sam Shepard. Aside from the fact that the title is a household word, due to its origin by Amos and Andy, the song has merits of its own, both in lyric and melody, and no doubt will soon be heard ’round places. Leo Feist, Inc., are also taking advantage of the popularity of Amos and Andy, with their new novelty number, “Check and Double Check,” which was also suggested from the boys* famous phrase. * * * Ida Warshauer, the New York “manageress” of Sherman, Clay & Co., wants it known that her firm has two of the numbers in Pathe’s “Swing High” picture, called “With My Guitar and You” and “Shoo the Hoodoo Away.” And from all indications, these numbers show great potentialities. * * * George Piantadosi, widely known throughout the music industry as one of its most competent professonal men, has joined the Robbins Music Corp. in the capacity of general professional manager. Billy Chandler continues with the firm as director of all radio activities. Frank Kelton has succeeded Harry Hoch as manager of the orchestra department. Associated with him will be Murray Baker, another newcomer to the firm. # * s The new Robbins professional studios, a triumph in modernistic artistry, are expected to be completely ready for the profession by the middle of May.