Tin Pan Alley sheet music

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

Tin Pan Alley sheet music · Before the gramophone became commonplace, you bought a song on paper. Many middle-class families had a piano in the living room and played the latest hits themselves. From the 1880s, music publishers settled in Manhattan, and by 1900 most of them were on West 28th Street. So much clattering of pianos sounded from the open windows that the street was nicknamed Tin Pan Alley, after the tin pans. Publishers employed staff songwriters and paid pianists to play new songs in shops and theatres. After the Ball by Charles K. Harris, from 1892, became one of the biggest hits.

Listening

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  Give My Regards to Broadway · Billy Murray, 1905
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  Shine On, Harvest Moon · Ada Jones & Billy Murray, 1909
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  Alexander's Ragtime Band · Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan, 1911

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See also

• Ragtime