TIN PAN ALLEY REPLACED BY A HIGH RISE?!? PLEASE FORWARD THIS ARTICLE!
Can you imagine your life growing up without any of these songs:
Tin Pan Alley’s biggest hits included:
“After the Ball” (Charles K. Harris, 1892)
“The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” (Charles Coborn, 1892)
“The Sidewalks of New York” (Lawlor & Blake, 1894)
“The Band Played On” (Charles B. Ward & John F. Palmer, 1895)
“Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose” (Ben Harney, 1896)
“A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” (Joe Hayden & Theodore Mertz, 1896)
“Warmest Baby in the Bunch” (George M. Cohan, 1896)
“At a Georgia Campmeeting” (Kerry Mills, 1897)
“Hearts & Flowers” (Theodore Moses Tobani, 1899)
“Hello! Ma Baby (Hello Ma Ragtime Gal)” (Emerson, Howard, & Sterling, 1899)
“Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage” (Harry Von Tilzer, 1900)
“Mighty Lak’ a Rose” (Ethelbert Nevin & Frank L. Stanton, 1901)
“Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (Huey Cannon, 1902)
“In the Good Old Summertime” (Ren Shields & George Evans, 1902)
“Give My Regards To Broadway” (George M. Cohan, 1904)
“In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” (Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne, 1905)
“Shine Little Glow Worm” (Paul Lincke & Lilla Cayley Robinson, 1907)
“Shine on Harvest Moon” (Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth, 1908)
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (Albert Von Tilzer, 1908)
“”By The Light of the Silvery Moon” (Gus Edwards & Edward Madden, 1909)
“Down by the Old Mill Stream” (Tell Taylor, 1910)
“Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine” (Fred Fisher & Alfred Bryan, 1910)
“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (Beth Slater Whitson & Leo Friedman, 1910)
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (Irving Berlin, 1911)
“Some of These Days” (Shelton Brooks, 1911)
“Peg o’ My Heart” (Fred Fisher & Alfred Bryan, 1913)
“The Darktown Strutters Ball” (Shelton Brooks, 1917)
“K-K-K-Katy” (Geoffrey O’Hara, 1918)
“God Bless America” (Irving Berlin, 1918; revised 1938)
“Oh by Jingo!” (Albert Von Tilzer, 1919)
“Swanee” (George Gershwin, 1919)
“Whispering” (1920)
“The Japanese Sandman” (1920)
Carolina in the Morning (Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson, 1922)
Lovesick Blues (Cliff Friend & Irving Mills, 1922)
“Way Down Yonder In New Orleans” (Creamer & Turner Layton, 1922)
“Yes, We Have No Bananas” (Frank Silver & Irving Cohn, 1923)
“I Cried for You” (Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown, 1923)
“Everybody Loves My Baby” (Spencer Williams, 1924)
“All Alone” (Irving Berlin, 1924)
“Sweet Georgia Brown” (Maceo Pinkard, 1925)
“Baby Face” (Bennie Davis & Harry Akst, 1926)
“Ain’t She Sweet” (Jack Yellen & Milton Ager,1927)
“My Blue Heaven” (Walter Donaldson & Richard Whiting, 1927)
“Happy Days Are Here Again” (Jack Yellen & Milton Ager, 1930)
