#95 Tin Pan Alley

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The modern music industry begins.... on 28th Street? A seemingly nondescript street in midtown Manhattan contains some of the most important buildings where early American pop music was created. Tin Pan Alley was a bustling and frenzied area, the most creative area of the city, with songwriters -- and song pluggers -- churning out iconic music. Sing along as we talk about the greatest songwriters and the process they went through to create the most influential tunes of the century. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 95 of The Bowery Boys, Tin Pan Alley.
0:04.4	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:05.9	Hey.
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0:20.5	Hello there, welcome to The Bowery Boys, this is Greg Young.
0:23.2	And this is Tom Myers.
0:24.4	Happy Holidays, everyone.
0:26.4	We're talking this week about a place called Tin Pan Alley.
0:29.3	This may be something that's not on your maps, as you're traversing the streets of New
0:33.6	York City.
0:34.6	Or maybe something that's more on a cultural map that you keep buried somewhere.
0:38.8	You know, you're aware of the phrase Tin Pan Alley, you know it has something to do
0:42.6	with the history of music, but you may not have been aware that it was an actual street.
0:47.2	Tin Pan Alley is essentially the birth of the modern popular music industry.
0:53.2	A collection of songwriters, song publishers, sheet music publishers, who basically
0:58.8	controlled what people listened to from the first of the century, almost until the
1:03.0	middle of the 20th century.
1:04.6	Which is funny because even once Tin Pan Alley moved out of this block, it still held
1:09.0	on to its name and the concept of Tin Pan Alley shifted from a place to a kind of music.
1:15.3	Some of the people who came through here were some of the greatest names of popular music
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