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Stuff You Should Know

What was Tin Pan Alley?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tin Pan Alley was an area of New York around the beginning of the 20th Century that served as ground zero for the earliest iterations of the music publishing industry. Learn all about this unique place and time right now.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.3

Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

0:41.2

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.8

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Tuckbright and there's Jerry over there and this is

0:47.6

Step You Should Know.

0:50.2

The superstar edition.

0:52.3

The old timey superstar edition.

0:55.2

Yeah man.

0:56.2

I thought this was super cool.

0:58.2

It's in Pan Alley.

0:59.2

Yeah.

1:00.2

This is one of those things where I sort of knew what 10 Pan Alley was and you always

1:05.0

have heard that term thrown around but I never really really got it until this episode.

1:11.3

Yeah.

1:12.3

Same here.

1:13.3

And it's pretty cool.

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