The Billboard 1913-03-22: Vol 25 Iss 12 (1913-03-22)

; I , The Billboard (02-104 W. 3sthST. NEW YORK CITY BY GENE HODGKINS Special Price, (Bc. | Dance Orchestration Read HIT No. 3. SEE TOP PAGE 125 y IN PUBLISHERS’ ROW. (Continued from page 53.) simple frase is the hardest one to strike, many rewritings are essayed before the song destined to become a hit is belcht forth upon the market. When the amateur sees the completed song, he Goes not notice the art underlying the simplicity, but, knowing that he is capable of writing simple frases, puts a string of them together, and thinks he has written a popular song That's why so many amateur efforts are “Jokes.” In endeavoring to write semething mew, amateurs oftimes enter the realms of the ridiculous. Some of the efforts falling within ais classification are so preposterous that it is bard to conceive of how anybody could have Wasted the time required to put the words (and, tm many cases, music) together. The wise amateur soon learns that the real read to song-writing success is a trail of disappointments. As a rule, the song writer who has reacht the highest pinnacle of success has bead a very wearysome journey. In fact, the road is so difficult that many writers apparently destined to become great ones, fall by the wayside and enter other lines of endeavor, far less premising, perhaps, at the very moment when @uccess is about to knock upon the door. Many successful people in widely varied lines of endeavor could tell very interesting stories regarding initia) song-writing aspirations which | never materialized. | For these reasons, do not envy the successful writer of words, music, or both, but sympathize with him, and hope that each new effort will} be more successful than the last, for the worthwhile writer deserves all the encouragement that can be meted out. His song-writing life fe short-lived, at best, and not extremely profitable, when compared to other lines of excep. | tional endeavor. Don’t try to uncork the battled 4 enthusiasm. WHAT'S WHAT IN MUSIC. Jean Schwartz's careworn expression is begin @ing tv fade away; he got his business man eger at last. it seems. Al Piantadosi met us coming down-town the ether day. The foul air of the subway did not | {aterfere with his genial smile as he said: By the way, great critic, I cut ont your review 01 The Curse of An Aching Heart ““Teat’s the right spirit,”’ we replied, highly pleased. ‘‘We presume you intend to profit by oar eriticism in writing future efforts. “Not at all,” replied the able composer. *“*Yeu slammed my song. I'm going to keep that review until the song’s a big bit and then I" haed it back to you and let you read what you gaid about a wonderful piece of work. Jee Goodwin and A! Bryan are more interested in charity than in vne another. THEODORE MORSE COMPANY MOVES. eodore Morse Music Co. will move Pe. ym quarters in the Regal Building om or about March 31 and will occupy the main of the entire second floor of 141-143 W. Pertiotn street, four doors west of Broadway. Every convenience for professionals, including geven thoroly-lighted, gound-proof piano rooms and a neatly furnisht reception room, is incorporated in the careful designs vf the new, commodious quarters, so designed that performers will never meet with unnecessary delay and will be taken care of immediately by Nat Vincent. Frank Gillen, Theodore Morse, personal and other members of the efficient professional staff. SONG REVIEWS. (Continued from page 53.) pa LOOKED INTO YOUR HEART—A beautifu as. of sentiment by Edward Teschemach. er, who is always careful with bis sap ant thought, joined to music, arranged in full concert style by Gerald F. Kahn. The song consists of three simple verses of sincere sentiment. The rest stanza begins with, ‘‘I lookt into your heart and saw a garden;’’ The second with, I lookt imto your eyes and saw a heaven;"’ the third with. “‘I lookt into your heart and saw the sunshine.”” It is purely and simply a poem Set to music. without a chorus, but so constructed as to make a very —— = wee number. sey & Company, publishers. RICHARD, THE THIRD—Words by L. Wolfe Gilbert, music by Lewis F. Muir. Gilbert has endeavored to take the name of Richard, the Third from its shelf of terrible infamy In order to pun upon the word ‘“‘Third.”” The song does mot refer to the terrible English king, who spared mo ties to achieve the throne and, instead of picturing the mis-shapen demon who killed all his relativs, refers to Miss Mandy’s love affairs, with a jumble of extremely Iinapprepriate Shakespearian expressions, brought in more te adhere to what Gilbert believes a Richard The Third flavor than for consistency. The long and shert of the story is that the muchbeloved Miss Mandy has three lovers, all named Riehard and, of course. Richard the Third Is the bey most beloved. The rieque is narrowly approeht in the chorus lines, ‘“‘You can have your Othello and that sort of fellow, They're al! right now and then, Richard’s himself again.’ In seme respects the song rings of cleverness, as the frasing of the lyric forms a simple ex pression of ‘“‘Heney man’’ sentiment when the terrible basis of the historical Richard the Tihrd is forgotten. Muir did his duty well when it came to the melody (F. A. Mills, publisher.) ISLE OF HONEYMOON—We were attracted to this sone as we attackt the batch for our weekly review, because of the hideons title page, one of the worst of the Dugdale Company’s conceptions. Could this song have ever been meant fer thé sales market It is hard to be Heve <o. It * In one color, an unpleasant green showing a couple sitting on an island: the happy couple (we presume they are happy). and the entire scenery must have been dasht off on the back of a blotter in less time than !t takes to change a nickel in a nickelodeon. To get to the song proper. John H. Kaiser has prepared an extremely. conventional set of love words. U R SQUARE HITS\ “Just An Lovin’ ition-Melody. ‘ An absolutely new idea in SyncopaA cyclone of fun , and originality — Lyrics an original idea in real Song Success ‘GREAT NOVELTY DANCE—A REPEATER. Old Time Song” We just paid a small fortune for the publishing rights of this wonderful “BALLAD BEAUTIFUL Heart-Reaching,Sentiment and Appeal Truly, A Song That Will Live FOREVER. “Mechanicat Man” “| Wish | Had A Doll Like You” Here’s the song that’s making Chicago like the Cabarets A REAL NOVELTY For Singles or Teams, great business opportunities. A SONG THAT WILL HOLD YOUR AUDIENCE. “When I Hear the Songs of Dixieland” A stirring Southern song. One of the best MARCH MEDLEYS EVER WRITTEN Good Lyrics and a Melody that can’t be beat FOR DUMB ACTS CHARLES A. MEYERS, Music Publisher, 145 N. Clark Street, Randolph Building, CHICAGO. Send For Sample Song “IF we ALL DUN KNEW WHAT EVAH BODY DUN,” latest hit in coon song. Also “PLANT A ROSE OF LOVE FOR MOTHER,” one of the sweetest melodies. GORBETT BROS., Pub., 2014 8. 18th St., New Castle, Ind. “TOO MANY GIRLS ARE MAKING EYES AT ME. Sure some rag and some two-step. ‘Sure it’s a hit.” Prof. copies to prof. sin market copies, 30c, prepaid. SAMUEL D WATTS F Publisher, McLeod, Alta.. Canada. ; 7 without the shadow of a new or exceptionally pretty expression peeping forth and M. Hanford has written the not-over-brilliant melody. There isn’t a new or original line in the entire song, tho the second verse takes on a figure of speech that relieves the mediocrity of the first stanza to Some extent. (H. Kirkus Dugdale, publisher.) WHEN THE SUN SHINES ON THE RIVER IN SEPTEMBER—Words by Theodore R. Lyons. music by C. G. Love, arranged by L. A. Love. Tells the story of an old couple who, amid peace ful rural surroundings, find many remembrances of their happy days of youthful love “When the sun shines on the river in September."’ The song is of the old-fashioned type that ever and anon come back to popularity, because of sheer contrast witth the modern ragtime numbers “Abiding”? seems an un-song-like word, even in a ballad, and we are surprised, after safely passing it in the chorus, to find the extremely artificial, far too poetic line, “Sustaining in our ill and in our glee.”” But, with these exceptions, the rhyming is good, the meter fair and the en tire song properly simple in flavor. (The Globe Music Co., pub.) RAGTIME REGIMENT BAND—Words by A. Seymour Lrown; music by Melville Morris. Meiville Morris, who recently received a ‘fat’ job from Remick’s (pardon pun), has taken full ad vantage of a golden opportunity by writing a song with A. Seymour Brown, one of the younger and most brilliant lyricists on staff. The song tells the usual story of a parade going down the street, how wonderful the music is, etc., ete., ending up with the climax line, “] want to do a two-step right to war—When I hear that colored ragtime, regiment band.”’ The song abounds with exeiting frases, chosen from the most prominent in Brown’s pocket Scrap-hook of handy rhymes and Morris has written a properly inspiring melody. Brown commits his usual breach when it comes to the interjection of grace-note-compelling lines, but the thought and punch predominates. so, perhaps, he shonld be forgiven (Jerome H. Remick & Co., pub. AN INTRODUCTION THE SINGER TO THE SONGS as would sing the newest thing, eed well this introduction: You’ll get a hand—they’l] understand The -YONS-LOVE-PRODUCTIONS. The Melody and the Harmony Produce sweet sounds immense; As to w Built &“IN JUST A LITTLE ou can win for life And “DREAMING You'll never’ care to Sing these because you Till “THE SUN SHINES “LOVE ON THE DOORSTEP” DREAMS DEAR OF YOU’ ords, each song a poem, of Reason, Humor, Sense. CHORUS: CORNER IN THE KINGDOM OF L@VE.” “THE QUEEN OF HOME SWEET HOME,” the while, wander or to roam. 1 like applause. ON makes everyone two-step, And creates the pleasant thoughts that all remember. ENCORE: Complete Piano Copies, fifteen cents each ; Professional Copies : ind Wholesale Price on application to GLOBE MUSIC CO., 1193 Broadway, N. Y. City. THE RIVER IN SEPTEMBER.” GET YOUR COPY — OF — “THE FIVE-EIGHTS RAG” It’s the dream of yesterday, the rag of today, and the rage fuses. All because there are five beats step, but an old-time tune that whistles, you're not looking copy twenty minutes ahead. 25 Cents In Stamps, Today. It forecasts a musical upheaval) TO-DAY of tomorrow. So new that it shocks, eon to each measure instead of two or three. Not @ Mag ty tweplays and hums itself into your very finger tips, It creeps on you and a flood of similar issues by song writers. Get your NO PROFESSIONAL COPIES. NEW TIME PUB. CO. BOX 185, STATION C, LOS ANGELES, CAL, FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT, MENTION THE BILLBOARD WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS.