The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12
Those Appealing To The Heart And Not Intel
 lect Survive


 made The emotion experienced is so deep and so true that it carries straight to the heart of the public"
 No other explanation can account for the fact some songs are as popular to- day as they were twenty-five or fltty years ago. The human, heart does nor change. Sentiment lives on forever Only exteriors are different. Yesterday we waltzed; today we fOxtrot. But we always dance in pairs. Let the rhythm do what it will, the makers or lyrics will ever vary their, rhymes on the same old themes Hove Me and the World Is Minev Hive in My Heart and Pay No Rent" 'Tell Me, Pretty Maiden Are there Any More at Home Like You?
 Appeals To Emotions
 The popular song does not appeal to inc intellect; it strikes right at the heart 1t is the tune that the man in the street wistles or huns as ne goes about his business, giving vent to his mood. Single out the ballade that have come down from a past genera tion and one will find they deal with a nrofound sentiment. - The love of a sweetheart, the love of a mother, the love of country. They touch the thing that is fundamental in man nature.
 It is not sentiment alone that makes the song. The tune must have swmg that will carry. They must be born at tbe same time, says William Jerome oi "Bedelia" and "Mr. DoOley" fame. A popular hit must be spontaneous and not manufactured. That is why, Tn hls belief, the jazz of today will not nYe' ''The songs of the present generation are written for the feet and not TOT tne heart.'' said Mir. Jerome, comparing the successes of 1894 with those of 1924 1NTo contemporary writers rhythm k .U important and the lyrics art manufactured to fit it. They are ma chine-made. What the public wants tol olI time is real sentiment.
 Mir. Jerome ought to know. Not oni! ;s he n well-known lyricist, but hl' wife has made a name for herself II | that field. As Maude Nugent she wal resnonsible for Sweet Rosie OGrady, who flashed across the New York stag l 2S years ago and still lives. Maud Nugent created her song at Tony Fas tors on Fourteenth street and maa n sensation by having a boy m tn gallery sing the second part-a stunt that was speedily copied.
 "DOwery" Still Sung
 Some songs, perhaps, will defy tn passing of time and even the disappear ance of the particular phases or I, III they describe, as, for instance, Tn Rowery." The lights are out that mad fine Bowery gay and it's dives are closed The stranger that strikes the city m longer seeks amusement there, but con fines himself to Broadway. Neverthe less, from the Atlantic to the Paclfl the song is known whose first Vers ran like this
 Oh, the night that I struck New Aorl I went out for quiet walk,
 Folks who are onto the city say, Better by far that I took Broadway But was out to enjoy the sights: There was the Bowery ablaze witt
 lights.
 I had one of the devils own nights. I'll never go there any more.
 CHORUS
 The Bowery, the BOwery, They say such things, and they do sucl
 things on the BOwery.
 The Bowery, I'll never go there any
 more.
 Charles B. Lawler's Sidewalks o New York" has had phenomenal re vival, chiefly on account of GovernO Smiths presidential boom. Had Smit been nominated the song would un doubtedly have been the musical hit the campaign As it is, delegates iron many parts of the country sang 1t untl they could sing no more.
 Some OId-Timers
 Paul Dresser's "On the Banks of tn Wabash has become the state song O Indiana. Few names are nentiOne' with greater love than thGt of tn Hoosier composer, for whom/a drivewa, in Indianapolis is to be called. Ina song. too, was heard at the democrati convention when the band played it ey cry time there was n demonstration 10 Senator Ralston. Another of the Ol timers associated with political fight and particularly with the Spanish American war iS "A Hot Time in tn Old Town" by Theodore A. Metz l rang out in Chicago in the days whel the crowd that packed the Colosseum waited for the coming of TheodOr Roosevelt.
 On warm summers night drifting lazily in a canoe, the grooming melodie of Stephen Foster are the ones easies to hum. They belong to the north, t the south, to the east and to the west There's homely beauty about the "Ol Folks at Home" "Old Black Joe" an My Old Kentucky Home" that make each generation claim them as it come along.
 The song that lives is rarely learne by note. it does not need to be carrie by radio to make it popular. Yet is literary broadcast on the air b the human voice without mechanics attachments. Can you recall hOwA yo first heard "Silver Threads Anon the Gold?" Perhaps your mother san