The Billboard 1924-03-22: Vol 36 Iss 12 (1924-03-22)

' 4B: ’ i > 4 .) on 7h } Big | . Ff 4 : ; h || bill 4) ee i i} ae Nt | ; 4 4 4 { { \ i 4 1 } t 4 The Billboard MARCH 22, 19286 —— omeay 1 Number ee GET IT?! UNKi” That’s how E, C. Mills, chairman of the executive board of the Music Publishers’ Protective Association, last week characterized the statement of an im portant broadcaster to the daily press in which the latter was credited with saying that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers had set $1,000,000 a year as a goal to be collected in performance fees for radio vroadcasting. “That statement is just bunk,’? Mr. Mills de clared. “The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which licenses the music copyright of its members for public performance elsewhere, has established no minimum or maximum amount that it expects to collect. Whether its demands are fair or not may pe best judged from the fact that it asked the largest broadcaster in existence for a fee of £35,000 a year to cover a license io seven stations. “The concerns operating these seven stations ~wid in 1923 in excess of $175,000,000 worth of vdig apparatus. If they bad not used music ‘wey would not have sold the one-thousandth part of that sum. We want $35,000 for fur nishing what creates a business of hundreds ¢ ef millions, Draw your own conclusions. So, oo, the current yelp of the broadcasters is (oat if they don't get relief trey will have to quit broadcasting. Let no one be worried They won't quit. “They are entirely too clever to “perations that will create a business will this taggering of $350,000,900, what it cost to build the Panama Canal. “The trouble with the broadcasters is that want everything for nothing. They expect the musician, the singer and the lecturer to render nothing and depend upon ‘the advertising’ they will receive as the result of performing over radio. So also do they expect the men who make the tribute their under the eumpensatioa tieory, “The result is—vnd jt’s the same the publie suffers while the and quarrel, persons who quit any that they year reach the which is just hemselves estimate sum they service for inusic to con talents same sort of a old story— broadcasters quibble and in the meantime 10,000,000 pent $25,000,000 for receiving apparatas have to Se content with the efforts at entertainicent of a lot of ambitious amateurs avd publicity-iiungry orchestra leaders, The duy is much neurer that most suspect when radio will pay, whether it wants to or tyt. everrbody whe renderg it a service “Does radio--itseif the actual competitor ws very form of amusement, keeping of peovie ip their homes every night nud away frow vlaces of publie entertainment— temerity to expect that it shall conteve! free and offer for nothing “eviees for hich all of the others have to pay? If radio assumes any such position it is stupid.’ hav 10 pulblie millions ave’ the ” we Tt has been considered traditionally impossible to follow a hit song with another of the same ft) uticalarly if the successful uumber chanced i, be a ballad. Jack Mills In,, Les shattered all precedent, therefore. vith “It’s u Man (Ev'ry Time), It’s a Man” « segnel to “Just a Girl That Men Forget’’. ‘he follow mp is now declared by the Millx ‘ait to Le a positive hit, and looks like if will eclipse the sales record of its predecessor UBUAGAKOYSBYAS FRM 450i LU HEE It has already been recorded 100 per cent mechanically, Clarence Williams, president of the music company that bears his name, is now on an extended trip thru the West and is making Chi eago his headquarters. He reports business as very good, TYrank Henri Swart, vaudeville artiste, ap pearing in the Mallia-Bart Company act playing the Keith Time, has written a new song, entitled ‘‘You’re the M-a Double M-a for Me’’. Arthur Tallman, New York publisher, is releasing the number, Archer Jackson and James McCrea, of the Progress Music Company, Schenectady, N. Y¥., have a new one called “Alabama Mammy of Mine’, . . . Clifford E. Hoene, of Wausau, Wis., in addition to being a good vaudeville drummer, is drumming up sales on his latest song publication, “Always Longing for You’’. « « Irving Mills, representing Jack Mills, Inec., is in Chicago for a ten-day stay. He will also take in St. Louis and Kansas City. Already badly hit by the steadily growing interest in radio, Parisian phonograph dealers are alarmed over a suggestion made by Government officials to tax all sorts of mechanical music heavily. While pianos would be sub ject to a small tax, under the proposal mad to the Chamber of Deputies, the levy on player: pianos, music boxes and gramophones would b raised considerably. The mechanical men are getting some consolation from the fact that radio sets would also be taxed, The latest Dixie song is “I'm Gonna Tic Myself to Dixieland (With the Mason-Dixon Line)’’. Jack Mills, Inc., is the publisher, Lew (Continued on page 34h) papeeesesssiscesssGss cease ce cccocs sees a cesc soso solos soos 25, co. 8s scoses cogs ceeceees | OWorids Greatest Collection of ' ae: i Imstrumental Blues | 1) WOLVER 3 : ne | -lele) am: ou Down Stomp @}=}= = j | : a ) 4 i Ww Sen ag oe | @)» ry | q 7 . EO D | —~' wot, Cornel Sean @)1ple) a= nsSh } S r g 9 = r ; " + >) B D0 le KPWDG : 2 on ve * DRUMMERS— Get Your Copy Now! The New wig ah Catalog Send for a copy of the new en larged edition of the most complete Drum catalo% ever issued. Shows many photos of America’s leading’ tympanists, drummers and orchestras using Ludwig Drums and accessories. Jos can produce wonderful, soft, sweet music, @ common carpenter's saw with e violin bow or soft hammer, if 7 know how. 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