#275 Return to Tin Pan Alley: Saving American Music History

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The beat goes on! In 2009 we recorded a podcast about the history of Tin Pan Alley, the cluster of buildings on West 28th Street where the American popular music industry was born. It was from these loud, bustling offices and parlors that some of the world's greatest songs were written and sold, launching and igniting the careers of songwriters like George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. But nine years later, Tin Pan Alley finds itself in peril as the neighborhood surrounding it -- now called NoMad (North of Madison Square Park) -- rapidly develops into a boutique hotel district. Can these historic structures be saved? We present to you our original 2009 podcast, followed by a brand-new segment for 2018 featuring an interview with George Calderaro of the Save Tin Pan Alley! preservation campaign. Featuring even MORE music classics from the Tin Pan Alley era. boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:58.1	The Bowry Boys episode 275, return to 10 Pan Alley.
1:02.7	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
1:04.8	Hey, support for The Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
1:09.3	Join us for as little as $1 a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
1:18.8	Hi there, welcome to The Bowry Boys.
1:20.4	This is Greg Young.
1:21.4	This is Tom Myers.
1:22.9	Today we are headed back to a location that we visited many years ago to West 28th Street
1:29.4	and to a stretch known as Tin Pan Alley, the birthplace of the American popular music industry.
1:36.0	Now on these blocks, composers and lyricists roamed from music publisher to music publisher
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