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J "^^ l |Y¥W< 1 r/<-> ,, / /^ ( ~ J I HE* Co I— STATgW 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. h—..... 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, = UPSHAW ON “NEAR BEER” VICTORY—Page Four I iF ■' W muhm jfy a aUbh. a - •.dSKHM JY: • Mr ATLANTA, GA., JULY 18, 1912 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.) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY