Show GEE BE SWEET TO TOME 11 ME E K KID I D DAre Are Arc the tho i people weary of oC the songs of torla today If IC the arc oro not they should lie be It has been years ears Ince a popular song of Worth and t tender sentiment has been written II Have e the men o of deep senti sentim m nt with ability to place those senti sentiments ments In musical poetry ceased to he hea a part ot of this great greal nation Forrest Crissey voicing out protest asks Did sout ou O ver I sit in If the tho theater Us lis to t lie best songs the tho most catchy lyrics o of light opera l laud aud then sl he be filled with a for a song with a soul soulin in fit ita song in which te tender witch witchIng witching Ing s not marrIed to lo words of sickening grotesque sentimentality or salacious clous suggestion 1 have until It hurt hurl And curiously tIlls this revulsion has heen quickly aroused In my own case not b by the blatantly nonsensical son song bitt by the lyric that had a I thread or of th the real running through the trace o of the inc to male make the counterfeit seem all the more abhorrent At times such n a mellow loneliness has crept oer me and I 1 have hae longed to lo hear a real song ringing true and clear and breathing a spirit d of a for fOl fOlIC forit it IC is as for 01 an absent friend or as for forthe forthe the da days s that are arc no more And out of such moments and moods has hns grown the question Ho Ilow we suffer un tinder dol the scourge of the puerile the In the songs of the da day Is the gen which places the laurel of oC popularity upon Gee Dc Be Sweet to Me Kid fill fills and homes with the multiplied repetItions of I Simply Cannot Make E Eyes cs Behave he be herond beyond yond rond the appreciation of honest sent meat ment And if a ne new G Clifton Ding DingI I ham were to arise and give ghe na I a peer fleer to 10 Loves Old S Song ng would woul it 1 fall upon dead oars I put the ques I Ilion lion only the other d day to a publisher of popular music or of the bettor sort Hero Is his reply I that the people are hungry for songs that ring true trite songs that have hae the tho glow of lion hon honest est eat sentiment instead of opera bourre I sentimentality Human nature has hns not at bottom greatly changed since John Howard layne gm gave us u Honie Sweet SweetHome Sweethome I Home ou 01 Samuel Woodworth wrote The Old Oaken Ducle t or 01 Stephen StephenI I C Foster set the world singing Tho ThoI I Old Folks at Homo Home I The Tho sophisticated and the blaze mar give ghe popularity to tho song of oC Calse motive motle anti and the cultured may maj scorn all songs sa save e those which bear the of the the tho common people are aro CIS as ready roady today to give gle fame to a nov new maker of songs which wIll reach the tho heart of oC the tho mul multitude In the same old way n as was the nation back In 1832 to thrIll with witha n a new sense of love of oC country when Samuel Francis Smith Pitt Into the I lips Bps of the the tho singing measure of oC America And some soma I abl ably an humble answer answel to tolie lie call of the hour soun sound the first note of n a new son era which will reveal the spuriousness of oC the s In all their cheapness and tinsel lInsel We have hae the tho musicians who are arc to the task Tho witchery and charm with which the they clothe the tho f and frivolous offerings of the tho lyric writers are proof enough of their ability Give GIe them lines that have the vital Ital and the will weave melo melodies les that will echo from a million lips Take Talce the good old songs I 1 have haye we have hae none are as af in as the fires of r As well tr to put out the sun suti as to lo hush those songs in the homes of the American people And wh why Because they thoy have bac real Instead of the counterfeit sc they mean something that awakens a response in inthe inthe the SOli soul 1 of oer every human being who Is dead to the love loc or of home of kin kindre kindred dred and of oC country |