Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-12-13


theatrical managers for nearly twenty
years.
The pretty little ballad. My Pretty
Red Rose, was instrumental in bring
Ing Bobby" Newcombe to public no
tice, and until the day of his death
Bobby" always included this popn-
lar air in his repertory.
Frank Howard achieved celebrity as
a ballad singer through his singing
of Only Pansy Blossom, which he
had written himself. He spread the
fame of his song when employed by
a patent medicine firm to travel
through the south with one of their
wagons. 1t is probably a fact that
more bottles of this medicine have
been sold through the influence OF
Towards sweet voice in Only a Pansy
Blossom than were ever disposed of
by peripatetic medicine vendor.
Not a little of the success achieved
by EDWARD Harrigan upon the stage
was due primarily to his rendition of
the celebrated Mulligan Guards song,
in which they ''shouldered guns and
marched and marched away, FROM
Baxter street way up to avenue A,
the drums and flies did sweetly,
sweetly play, as we marched, marched,
marched with the Mulligan Guards"
AS Mark Twain will be remembered
for his story of the jumping frog OF
the Calaveras and the incident In Tom
Sawyer's career when he whitewashed
the fence, so will Ned" Harrigan's
name be remembered in years to come
with the rollicking, jolly music of the
Mulligan Guards. The sound of 1t
even now is enough to set the listeners
feet In motion
Who does not remember that gentle,
pathetically melodious little ballad,
Empty is the Cradle, Baby's Gone?
The author of this tender gem was
Harry Kennedy, who now lies under
the sod. But in future years, when
the name of this fayorite song writer
shall be recalled in tender reminis-
cence, Empty is the Cradle will al
ways be associated with 1t upon the
walls of memory.
Gradually coming down through the
years toward the present, Brannigan's
Band suggests the name Of the come
dian, Tony Hart; and William Sean
Ian, with his Peek-a-boo, will always
be intimately associated in the minds
of the lovers of popular songs.
A consideration of songs which have
been written and sung in the last de-
cade brings to mind Stick to Your
Mother, Tom. sung by Maude Bever-
ley. For several years this vocalist
had been singing in concert halls and
earning precarious existence, at
tracing no special attention. But
through the success attained by her
singing of Stick to Your Mother, Tom,
she quickly arose to the 500 week
class, and her prosperity continued for
Il long time.
At about the same time May How
ard attained international fame In the
manner she sang The Letter That
Never Came, which was also true of
Banks Winters, who inflicted upon a
grooming public that well-known chest
nut, White Wings. Equally success
full was the Philadelphia minstrel, J.
J.. Carncross, with See That My
Graves Kept Green. 1t is mainly due
to Mr.. Carncross' sweet voice that the
grave has been kept green ever since,
even If paint had to be used TO achieve
this laudable object.
Lolita was first indlvld,alized with
ha, s.i, ~ fav Hap III "
melody In the Morning by the Bright
Light while the late Annie PiXley was
universally associated with The Cows
Are in the Corn. Then came j. X. EN-
met with his celebrated lullaby, Go
to Sleep, My Baby, the fame of which
has been kept alive by several imi-
tations since his death.
r. ]. Jose had been singing for
comparatively small salary DIN Dock
stader's Ministries, until he aroused his
audiences to enthusiastic applause by
his rendering With All Her Faults !
Love Her Still. Within week his sal
ary was doubled, and even to the pres
ent day he falls back upon this song
as one of the most attractive features
Of his extensive repertory, invariably
enlisting encoros whenever sung.
A review OF the more recent in
stances Of men and women who have
attracted universal attention in the
field of popular song calls up Maggie
Cline. Mary Ann Kehoe walked into
publicity when Maggie first trotted
Miss Kehoe out upon the stage, with Its
suggestions Of domestic servitude.
But perhaps the greater part OF Miss
Clines fame depends upon her graphic
description of the fight between "Mc-
Closkey and the Nagur.'
AS Is well known, the song that
brought Lottie Collins to the public
notice was Tara Ra, Boom-de-Ay,
which yielded her $1,000 week. The
same may be said Of Joe Flynn, whose
Down Went McGinty carried him into
fame from a vaudeville singer to a
.'star" within six months; and Lew
Dockstader was lifted into greater de-
mand solely from his excellent inter-
probation of the song We've Both Been