The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-28

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ment. They may have to. 90 to work for
living. s ggtS "a ~
The radio Il taking all the melody out Of
their gross incomes. Their musical numbers
are suffering from too much exposure to the
| open air. s-,ilss. S5s ~
Up to the Era Of Broadcasting, when 9
man wrote sopg he collected rosslty on the
sheet music, photograph records and player
piano rolls If the people wanted to hsAr
| the number they had to buy one or all Of
| these things Today when a man writes a
| song the people tune into any one of the
eight dozen stations and get sprayed with il
| free of charge. ~ ~
All the song writer gets is complaints and
| applause cards. Everybody who likes any
thing received via the radio is supposed to
send in an applause card. These applause
cards are saved and given to the song writer.
When the song writer gets $4,000 he takes
the INTO station OQZ and gets his choice of
a beautiful clay pipe or a pair of wristlets,
The people get the song for nothing and
so do the radio stations. And after its been
hurled through the ozone ten or twelve times
an evening from thirty or forty broadcasting
plants that's all any song is worth
Song hits have become just something
everybody expects to find in the air like
germs, dust and hay-feyer pollen. They cost
no more than ram or snow. A. composer
turns out charming melody, and if he can
get somebody sufficiently crazy to write a
perfectly senseless lyric be has a hit. But
what can he do with it? Nothing utsthrow
it into the air aud let every citizen with 30
Il L. nIn
bulbs either take it or leave it,
| The fight has reached congress, where. the
song writers are staging an appeal that
broadcasting stations be forced to pay royal
ties if they use copyrighted numbers.
The laborer is worthy. of his hire and the
musician is WORTH Of hts Tyre 49,. :
Where. would art be il, every time great
artist painted masterpiece every fiat
dweller with a $50 electrically lighted puzzle
box could get copy Of 1t BY simply. standing
by for Just few moments, please% *
Likewise, what would the great inventor
say if every. time he discovered new way
of producing automobiles, suspension bridges
or shoe polish he had to hand the details
over to the local broadcasting station to be
distributed between the Arlington time sig
nails and the Talk on Bee Raising2i
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That broadcasting popularizes a : musical
number is the claim Of the broadcasters, but
every radio fan knows better.
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Get RWJ," says father along about
p, M, Let's see what's on there" =.
Tenor voice from RJTJ: Nah evan lovin'
nanny way down+in Aalabahm, ete'
Father: That thing again !! Try Station
OMG.' - go u
Tenor Voice from oAIG "AIah eyah lovin'
nanny way down hi 5..s,s1
Father: Cut It! Get Station Blk. s.
Baritone at BBX Nah eyah loyins man.
my way down %
Father: "Luvvamikei Isn't any station
using any other song these nightsg Try
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Quartette at FIGS: Nah Erah-h.h Low.
in-nsn Mam.m-mmy Way" sea5
Father hitting radio set with chair and
jumping out of windowg: That. makes
2,365,5S3 Ever Lorins Mamnlies that have
come in through that thing. in. theulast four
days y.
- Sr5
Moral: You can kill even national an
thems and banana numbers if you only keep
at it. =. 60 :