Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-24 | Page 17 | Old-Time Songs Still Popular

TIME OLD-TIME SONGS STill POPULAR Sweet Adeline School Daysi Days Days' i Reveal Roveal Power to Thrill NEW YORK May 23 What JP-What What dozen dozen doz doz- en cit popular songs of recent years have havea a Ii chance to live particularly in a aday aday aday day when constant repetition of a catchy tune cnn enn kill it in a week A tentative answer was given the theother theother theother other night when American composers put on a show for the benefit of the Authors' Authors league fund and md incidentally at the same time probably allayed curiosity curiosity curi curt as to what they considered their own awn best tunes Sweet Adeline School Days Under the Bamboo Tree TraeN and other songs song of yesteryear still have the power to thrill not only the barber barbershop barbershop barbershop shop chord boys but a sophisticated audience in evening dress which his has become accustomed to the melodies mel melt odies and more intricate rhythms of or later day composers the show re re- re Armstrong Armstron ambled out outon outon outon on the stage his fatherly face wreathed in smiles and arid struck the opening chord of Adeline the audio audi ence cheered and then whooped up the chorus till the proverbial rafters rang Gus Edwards also playing his own music found that School Days Dars still was popular while J J. J Rosamund Johnson John John- son squat dusky and smiling learned that plenty of his auditors knew not only the tune tunc but the words of ot his hisong hissong hissong song ong about the bamboo tree and could sing them There was Wag plenty of too for the moderns including George Gershwin who selected Ive Got Rhythm with variations as his con con- Irvin Irving Berlin who h has been turning out hits hits' for years ears and years went back to Alexanders Ragtime Band for lor an opener encoring with his latest musical smash about the Easter bonnet