ABSTRACT
For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1|20 pages
A
entry |1 pages
Maurice Abrahams
entry |1 pages
Stanley Adams
entry |1 pages
Harold Adamson
entry |1 pages
Richard Adler
entry |2 pages
Milton Ager
entry |1 pages
Fred E. Ahlert
entry |1 pages
Harry Akst
entry |1 pages
Lou Alter
entry |1 pages
Amateur Composers
entry |2 pages
Leroy Anderson
entry |1 pages
Andrews Sisters
entry |1 pages
Animal Dances
entry |1 pages
Harry Archer
entry |4 pages
Harold Arlen
entry |3 pages
Louis Armstrong
entry |1 pages
Gus Arnheim
entry |2 pages
Ascap
entry |1 pages
Fred Astaire
entry |2 pages
Gene Austin
entry |1 pages
Gene Autry
letter 2|38 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Mildred Bailey
entry |1 pages
Ernest R. Ball
entry |2 pages
Ballroom Dances of the Ragtime Era (1900s–1910s)
entry |1 pages
Roy Bargy
entry |1 pages
Harry Barris
entry |2 pages
Phil Baxter
entry |3 pages
Nora Bayes
entry |1 pages
Bennie Benjamin
entry |8 pages
Irving Berlin
entry |9 pages
American Published Individual Songs of Irving Berlin
entry |2 pages
Leonard Bernstein
entry |1 pages
Big Three
entry |2 pages
Edgar F. Bitner
entry |3 pages
Eubie Blake
entry |1 pages
Rube Bloom
entry |2 pages
Blues
entry |1 pages
Bmi
entry |2 pages
Boswell Sisters
entry |2 pages
Perry Bradford
entry |1 pages
Fanny Brice
entry |2 pages
Brill Building
entry |2 pages
Broadway Show and Revue Songs
entry |2 pages
Shelton Brooks
entry |2 pages
Lew Brown
entry |2 pages
Nacio Herb Brown
entry |2 pages
Joe Burke
entry |2 pages
Johnny Burke
entry |1 pages
Henry Busse
letter 3|41 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Irving Caesar
entry |3 pages
Sammy Cahn
entry |1 pages
Cakewalk
entry |1 pages
Anne Caldwell
entry |2 pages
Cab Calloway
entry |1 pages
Hughie Cannon
entry |2 pages
Eddie Cantor
entry |3 pages
Hoagy Carmichael
entry |2 pages
Harry Carroll
entry |1 pages
Cartoon Characters
entry |1 pages
Emma Carus
entry |3 pages
Vernon and Irene Castle
entry |2 pages
Saul Chaplin
entry |1 pages
Chappell and Company
entry |2 pages
Charleston
entry |1 pages
Charts
entry |1 pages
Frank E. Churchill
entry |1 pages
Classical Music Appropriated
entry |1 pages
Maggie Cline
entry |2 pages
George L. Cobb
entry |4 pages
George M. Cohan
entry |4 pages
Cole and Johnson Brothers
entry |1 pages
Russ Columbo
entry |2 pages
Comden and Green
entry |2 pages
Composing a Pop Song
entry |3 pages
Zez Confrey
entry |2 pages
Con Conrad
entry |2 pages
Will Marion Cook
entry |2 pages
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
entry |2 pages
Coon Songs
entry |2 pages
J. Fred Coots
entry |2 pages
Sam Coslow
entry |2 pages
Noel Coward
entry |1 pages
Francis Craig
entry |1 pages
Henry Creamer
entry |3 pages
Bing Crosby
entry |3 pages
Xavier Cugat
entry |1 pages
Cut-In
letter 4|24 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Charles N. Daniels
entry |2 pages
Benny Davis
entry |2 pages
Gussie L. Davis
entry |1 pages
Joseph M. Davis
entry |2 pages
Doris Day
entry |1 pages
Sylvia Dee
entry |2 pages
Eddie De Lange
entry |2 pages
Demonstrator
entry |2 pages
B. G. De Sylva
entry |3 pages
De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson
entry |1 pages
De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson, Inc.
entry |2 pages
Howard Dietz
entry |3 pages
Disney Cartoon Songs
entry |2 pages
Mort Dixon
entry |3 pages
Walter J. Donaldson
entry |1 pages
Dorothy Donnelly
entry |2 pages
Jimmy Dorsey
entry |2 pages
Tommy Dorsey
entry |1 pages
Double Song
entry |1 pages
Paul Dresser
entry |1 pages
Dave Dreyer
entry |2 pages
Max Dreyfus
entry |1 pages
Al Dubin
entry |2 pages
Vernon Duke
entry |2 pages
Jimmy Durante
letter 5|6 pages
E
entry |1 pages
Nelson Eddy
entry |1 pages
Cliff Edwards
entry |2 pages
Gus Edwards
entry |1 pages
Ray Egan
entry |1 pages
Duke Ellington
entry |1 pages
Ethnic Songs
entry |2 pages
Ruth Etting
entry |1 pages
James Reese Europe
letter 6|14 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Sammy Fain
entry |2 pages
Famous Music (1928–Today)
entry |2 pages
Leo Feist
entry |2 pages
Dorothy Fields
entry |10 pages
Film Music
entry |2 pages
Silent Films
entry |1 pages
Talkies
entry |1 pages
Movie Songs
entry |1 pages
Biopics
entry |1 pages
Ted Fio Rito
entry |2 pages
Fred Fisher
entry |1 pages
Mark Fisher
entry |2 pages
Ella Fitzgerald
entry |1 pages
Fox-Trot
entry |1 pages
Arthur Freed
entry |2 pages
Cliff Friend
entry |2 pages
Rudolf Friml
entry |1 pages
Jane Froman
letter 7|23 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Gaiety Building
entry |2 pages
Judy Garland
entry |1 pages
Clarence Gaskill
entry |1 pages
Percy Gaunt
entry |7 pages
George Gershwin
entry |5 pages
American Published Individual Songs by George Gershwin
entry |1 pages
Ira Gershwin
entry |1 pages
L. Wolfe Gilbert
entry |2 pages
Lottie Gilson
entry |1 pages
Arthur Godfrey
entry |1 pages
E. Ray Goetz
entry |2 pages
Jean Goldkette
entry |3 pages
Benny Goodman
entry |2 pages
Gotham-Attucks Music Company
entry |1 pages
Bud Green
entry |2 pages
Johnny Green
entry |2 pages
Clifford Grey
entry |1 pages
Ferde Grofé
entry |2 pages
Mose Edwin Gumble
letter 8|48 pages
H
entry |4 pages
Oscar Hammerstein II
entry |2 pages
Lou Handman
entry |3 pages
W. C. Handy
entry |2 pages
James F. Hanley
entry |2 pages
Otto Harbach
entry |2 pages
E. Y. “Yip” Harburg
entry |2 pages
Leigh Harline
entry |2 pages
T. B. Harms Company/Harms, Inc.
entry |4 pages
Charles K. Harris
entry |2 pages
Lorenz Hart
entry |2 pages
Fletcher Henderson
entry |2 pages
Ray Henderson
entry |3 pages
Victor Herbert
entry |2 pages
Edward Heyman
entry |2 pages
Bob Hilliard
entry |1 pages
Hits
entry |26 pages
Hit Songs
letter 9|1 pages
I
entry |1 pages
May Irwin
letter 10|12 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jazz in the Tin Pan Alley Era
entry |2 pages
William Jerome
entry |1 pages
Jitterbug
entry |1 pages
Jobbers
entry |2 pages
Arnold Johnson
entry |2 pages
Charles Leslie Johnson
entry |1 pages
James P. Johnson
entry |1 pages
Arthur Johnston
entry |2 pages
Al Jolson
entry |2 pages
Isham Jones
entry |1 pages
Richard M. Jones
entry |2 pages
Spike Jones
entry |2 pages
Scott Joplin
letter 11|20 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Gus Kahn
entry |2 pages
Roger Wolfe Kahn
entry |1 pages
Bert Kalmar
entry |1 pages
Art Kassell
entry |2 pages
Benjamin F. Keith
entry |7 pages
Jerome Kern
entry |8 pages
American Published Songs by Jerome D. Kern
entry |2 pages
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
entry |2 pages
Ted Koehler
entry |1 pages
Alex Kramer
entry |2 pages
Helmy Kresa
letter 12|18 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Burton Lane
entry |1 pages
Latin-American Dances
entry |2 pages
Jack Lawrence
entry |2 pages
Turner Layton
entry |1 pages
Lead Sheet
entry |2 pages
Leeds Music Corp.
entry |1 pages
Alan Jay Lerner
entry |2 pages
Edgar Leslie
entry |1 pages
Lou Levy
entry |2 pages
Sam M. Lewis
entry |2 pages
Ted Lewis
entry |3 pages
Sid Lippman
entry |2 pages
Jerry Livingston
entry |3 pages
Frank Loesser
entry |3 pages
Frederick Loewe
entry |2 pages
Guy Lombardo
entry |2 pages
Nick Lucas
entry |1 pages
Abe Lyman
letter 14|26 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Jeanette MacDonald
entry |1 pages
Cecil Mack
entry |3 pages
Edward B. Marks
entry |1 pages
Gerald Marks
entry |2 pages
Dean Martin
entry |1 pages
Tony Martin
entry |2 pages
Joseph McCarthy
entry |2 pages
Jimmy McHugh
entry |2 pages
Melrose Brothers Music Company
entry |5 pages
Johnny Mercer
entry |1 pages
Ethel Merman
entry |2 pages
Bob Merrill
entry |2 pages
George W. Meyer
entry |2 pages
Joseph Meyer
entry |2 pages
Glenn Miller
entry |2 pages
Frederick Allen Mills
entry |2 pages
The Mills Brothers
entry |2 pages
Mills Music, Inc.
entry |2 pages
James V. Monaco
entry |1 pages
Helen Morgan
entry |1 pages
Edwin H. Morris
entry |2 pages
Theodore F. Morse
entry |2 pages
Jelly Roll Morton
entry |2 pages
Lewis F. Muir
entry |2 pages
Billy Murray
entry |1 pages
Music Box Revues
letter 15|2 pages
N
entry |2 pages
Ray Noble
letter 16|7 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Abe Olman
entry |2 pages
George Olsen
entry |4 pages
Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB)
entry |2 pages
Original Memphis Five
letter 17|19 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Pace and Handy Music Company
entry |3 pages
Mitchell Parish
entry |2 pages
Maceo Pinkard
entry |2 pages
A. J. Piron
entry |1 pages
Plugging
entry |2 pages
Politics
entry |1 pages
Lew Pollack
entry |4 pages
Cole Porter
entry |5 pages
American Published Individual Songs of Cole Porter:
entry |1 pages
Product Songs
entry |1 pages
Pseudonyms
entry |1 pages
Publishing a Popular Song
entry |1 pages
Contracts and payment
letter 18|32 pages
R
entry |2 pages
Radio
entry |1 pages
Rag Song
entry |3 pages
Ragtime
entry |2 pages
Ralph Rainger
entry |1 pages
David Raksin
entry |2 pages
Erno Rapee
entry |2 pages
Andy Razaf
entry |2 pages
Record Industry
entry |2 pages
Jerome H. Remick and Company
entry |2 pages
Harry Richman
entry |2 pages
The Richmond Organization (TRO)
entry |1 pages
Blanche Ring
entry |2 pages
Robbins Music Corporation
entry |2 pages
Leo Robin
entry |1 pages
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
entry |2 pages
J. Russel Robinson
entry |6 pages
Richard Rodgers
entry |6 pages
American Published Individual Songs by Richard Rodgers:
entry |1 pages
Alex Rogers
entry |1 pages
Ginger Rogers
entry |2 pages
Sigmund Romberg
entry |2 pages
Billy Rose
entry |2 pages
Fred Rose
entry |3 pages
Monroe H. Rosenfeld
entry |1 pages
Jerry Ross
entry |2 pages
Will Rossiter
entry |2 pages
Harry Ruby
entry |1 pages
Dan Russo
letter 19|29 pages
S
entry |1 pages
Santly-Joy, Inc.
entry |3 pages
Elmer Schoebel
entry |2 pages
Jean Schwartz
entry |4 pages
Shapiro, Bernstein and Company (1898-present)
entry |2 pages
Artie Shaw
entry |8 pages
Sheet Music
entry |1 pages
Shimmy
entry |2 pages
Dinah Shore
entry |1 pages
Carl Sigman
entry |2 pages
Frank Sinatra
entry |1 pages
Noble Sissle
entry |2 pages
Chris Smith
entry |1 pages
Kate Smith
entry |3 pages
Ted Snyder Company/Waterson, Berlin and Snyder (1908–1928)
entry |1 pages
Song Folios
entry |1 pages
Song Form
entry |2 pages
Southern Music Company
entry |2 pages
John Stark and Son
entry |1 pages
Sam Stept
entry |2 pages
Joseph W. Stern
entry |1 pages
Axel Stordahl
entry |1 pages
Billy Strayhorn
entry |2 pages
Jule Styne
entry |2 pages
Dana Suesse
entry |1 pages
Kay Swift
letter 20|6 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Eva Tanguay
entry |1 pages
Television Musicals
entry |1 pages
James Thornton
entry |2 pages
Harry Tierney
entry |1 pages
Charles Tobias
entry |2 pages
Triangle Music Publishing Company
entry |2 pages
Sophie Tucker
entry |1 pages
Roy Turk
letter 21|11 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Rudy Vallee
entry |2 pages
Van and Schenck
entry |2 pages
Egbert Van Alstyne
entry |3 pages
Jimmy Van Heusen
entry |1 pages
Jerry Vogel Music Company
entry |1 pages
Albert Von Tilzer
entry |5 pages
Harry Von Tilzer
letter 22|36 pages
W
entry |2 pages
“Fats” Waller
entry |2 pages
War Songs
entry |1 pages
Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
entry |4 pages
Harry Warren
entry |2 pages
Ned Washington
entry |1 pages
Ethel Waters
entry |1 pages
Berlin Waterson and Snyder
entry |2 pages
Mabel Wayne
entry |3 pages
Weber and Fields Music Hall
entry |2 pages
Paul Francis Webster
entry |2 pages
Kurt Weill
entry |2 pages
Pete Wendling
entry |2 pages
Percy Wenrich
entry |2 pages
Paul Weston
entry |3 pages
Paul Whiteman
entry |4 pages
Richard A. Whiting
entry |4 pages
Williams and Walker
entry |2 pages
Clarence Williams
entry |3 pages
Spencer Williams
entry |1 pages
Williamson Music Inc.
entry |5 pages
M. Witmark and Sons
entry |4 pages
P. G. Wodehouse
entry |1 pages
Willis Woodward
entry |2 pages
Allie Wrubel
letter 23|7 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Jack Yellen
entry |4 pages
Vincent Youmans
entry |2 pages
Joe Young
entry |2 pages
Victor Young
letter 24|3 pages
Z
entry |3 pages
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