Tin Pan Alley

Episode # 2016This show takes listeners back to the early days of jazz and Tin Pan Alley when songwriters and performers were shaping a new and…

Episode #195212/28 Time Off Americans had enough extra cash in their pockets by the early decades of the 20th century so that ordinary Americans—as…

Episode 194711/23 Writing Ragtime Songs When ragtime became popular, Tin Pan Alley songwriters added syncopation to their tunes and called them “ragtime…

Episode #194511/9 First Pop From Charles Harris’ “After the Ball” that led to the founding of Tin Pan Alley, to a performance by Paul Whitman’s Orchestra…

Episode 19226/1 Telling Stories Every good song is dramatic. Right now, there’s a reason for this person to be singing these words. When songs tell…

Episode 19062/9 The Alleyman. These are professional songwriters who kept Americans singing through the first thirty years of the twentieth century. They…

Episode # 1819 Lou Hirsch and Gene Buck—Few people will recognize the name of Lou Hirsch. That’s partly because he died so young—at the age of 37, but he…

Fascinatin' Rhythm Program 1718From the Irish to the Jews in Tin Pan Alley, a musical history about discrimination and acceptance.