talkie Songs
Producers Afay Have Profitable Side-Line MAKING POPULAR “HITS" I .*1 striking side issue of the I lapidly expanding talking picture industry is its probaple effect on the song pub- I lishing business. There is every probability j that producers will make big I | prots exploiting and intro- I | ducing popular “hits" in their 1 ! screen productions. years picture producers have been giving publicity to popular ballads christened after a successful photo-play, or used with it as a I oung. i Now that the picture studios are becoming equipped to originate and register their own songs, it seems that as more millions are made out of music, the movies will make them. The big studios are signing up master balladists to compose on order, just as a script is ordered for a new photoplay, or two dozen wigs are ordered in a historical romance. Several producers already have com-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 23
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150talkie Songs Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 23
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