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VOLUME EIGHT
NUMBER TWENTY-ONE
CHARLIE TILLMAN’S TRIBUTE IN SONG
The Multi-Maker of “Singable Songs” Crowns His Long List of Live-Wire Song Books With His Masterpiece “Church
Hymnal and Sunday School Songs”—He Digs Up the Oldest Old and Weds to the Newest New.
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on germs, microbes, bacteria and the like,
the teacher offered a prize for the best
4 ‘composition” on “The Antiquity of Mi
crobes.” And what do you suppose won
the prize:? It was this: “Adam had
’em.”
Well, if that group of “Young Ameri
cans,” after being well informed on the
makers of song-books, had been asked for
a composition on “The Multiplicity of
Song-Books With Singable Songs,” the
answers would necessarily have been:
“If Adam had’em Tillman tilled ’em.”
Or, “If Sampson slayed ’em—Tillman
made ’em.”
Just how old he was when his first song
book “firstling” came from the press, I
do not know, but I do know that the de
mand for that live, melodious book was so
great that another and another and an
other edition was given to the eager pub
lic.
Charlie Tillman began his music career,
primarily, of course, in his cradle, but pub
licly as the leader of song in his noble old
father’s evangelistic meetings. With mu
sic in his heart, and that heart, head and
tongue attuned to the minstrelsy of the
skies, he began to write songs of his own,
and now Charlie Tillman has offices in Cin
cinnati, Kansas City and Dallas, Texas, in
addition to his home office in Atlanta.
Mr. H. C. Robert, his enterprising At
lanta manager, speaking of his list of
books, gives the following:
“Something more than twenty-five
pears ago, while engaged as a singer for his
father, in the evangelistic work, Charlie
Tillman began to see the need of a song
book especially suited to revival meetings,
and to produce one himself resulted in a
very small book, being limited as to ex
perience and finance; so his first was a
thirty-two page booklet, which was increased
to sixty-four pages. This little book had a
good sale, which made it possible to bring out
Revival No. 1, being one of the fisrt song-books
of any size to retail in revival meetings at a
quarter. This proved a success among Evan-
F it had been a song-book test
about which the school children
wrote, the name of our only origi
nal Father Adam would have been
changed to Charlie Tillman.
The story goes that after the pu
pils in a certain school had
been lectured and catechised
profusely and promiscuously, =
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By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, Editor.
gelists.
No. 1 was followed by Revival No. 2, over
two thousand of which were sold in the first
meeting it was used. This great book was a
great favorite of the late Sam P. Jones.
“The next was a book for little singers, Lit-
tle Light for little folks, which received a hear
ty welcome among primary teachers, and to
day is more popular than ever.
‘ ‘ The next to appear was Singing Made Easy,
the rudiments of music condensed by Tillman
and Bryant, which can be used in connection
with any book in singing classes. The sale of
this continues to grow.
“While this last mentioned book was in
preparation, material was being gathered for
Revival No. 3, which has had a wide •circula
tion.
“Following this was Revival No. 4, and,
like the others, has had a fine sale.
“Then came some smaller books, such
as Revival Special and The Eleventh
Hour Songs, followed by Sunday School
and Revival, which has passed the Quar
ter Million mark.
“After this came Tillman’s Tabernacle
Songs, a tremendous hit as a ten-cent
book. Then his last, Revival No. 6.
“Thus it is seen that Charlie Tillman,
while pushing his evangelistic work, has
been wide awake to the song-book needs,
which has given his books a combined
sale of Two Million Copies.”
Tillman’s Latest and Greatest.
The latest and great triumph of this
master of sacred! song, meets, indeed, a
long-felt want —a superb combination,
containing the newest new and the old
est old songs, and known by the compre
hensive title, “Church Hymnal and Sun
day School Songs,” combined.
With over 300 pages and 387 selections
—music wit livery song—this great new
book makes its many-sided author as
proud of fits birth as Wood row Wilson is
proud of his nomination.
And there are twins at the musician’s
publishing house—for, simultaneous with
the birth of this rich and varied com
bination book, comes “Sunday School and
Revival No. 2,” another book of stir and
love and light.
That Tune Bump in Your Head.
And with all his ability to write music
and compile song-book masterpieces,
Charlie D. Tillman knows how to do
something else —he knows the righteous
art of proper advertising. The man
who don’t believe in it is a simpleton,
and the man who don’t know how to do
it —well, he is to be pitied. For in
stance, on great sign boards, as big as a
house, in the suburbs of Atlanta thou-
sands see every day a sign like this: A big,
bald head, with an arrow pointing to a certain
cerebral location, and a declaration like this
beneath the arrow: “The tune bump in your
head calls for Tillman’s singable songs.”
(Continued on Page 16.)
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