Show composers ofa of sweet Adeline 9 reap royalties royalties after waiting baitin 9 30 years now new york At millions illions have sung a bout about it but only two had real cause to pine for sweet aadil adeline e thy they were ere harry armst armstrong ro n g and richard 11 gerard iter her creators who kicked themselves as claps champa when she became the darling 0 of the barber shops lamp post quartets cafes and theaters after they had signed away all interest in her her fair face ace beams now on both of them for or coming back as she has to be ba again the reigning belle she idie forgotten or gotton armstrong and gerard only they could renow renew the copyright which ran out a couple ot of years ago armstrong is still composing popular music in his own office on broadway gerard will retire in a couple of years as a postal clerk As one indication of how low sweet sweet adeline can be armstrong relates that lie he and gerard now collect every time a movie actor warbles so BO much mitch as one single bar it makes up partly tor for the years in which they could listen to the song alth fill only a detached interest they wrote sweet Adel adeline lne 30 years ago armstrong conceived the he melody tor for the chorus five years earlier when he was spending ila his spare tinie time striking chords with lamp post quartets quartet in maiden mass singing such bitch things as the cows in the clover go moo mo o o mu alu olih uh that was before lie decided to come to new york with GO 50 in his pocket ila ho played a piano at coney island lie ile played another in a saloon oft off the bowery another in san souich music hall and finally isadore lea clore convinced him that he ought to get away from the hib cafe life gave him it job at 18 a week his duties being to moke make himself generally useful under this category naw was t the li e job of plugging songs at music counters ile ha met girard who hal had changed his name from ilitsch husch and who was also working tor for the publishing HIM firm gerard wrote youre the flower of my heat sweet rosalie to the music that armstrong had already conceived turn turned ad ift it down A second publisher said jr it was wo too slow A third said it was too old fashioned A fourth contracted for it kept it a year and then turned it back again as aa too slow tho the song lay around almost forgotten for a time 1 I said to gerard relates arm strong the trouble with this song bong Is the titles bad and gerard i thinks a while and then picks dicks adeline we submitted it to again and they took it forgetting that chev had already turned it down julius changed the ni melody elody but when the proofs came up I 1 changed it back and he never I 1 noticed it but even in print sweet adeline lay around unnoticed singers have it people buy it A long time after jt lt was published lis lied a quartet known as the quaker city F four our sang it at ham mers telas ny victoria it went big soon it swept the country tile the authors I iad had ad already sold their interests te armstrong tor for 1000 gerard tor for 2000 |