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"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game before writing the song. [1] The song's chorus is traditionally sung as part of the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game ...
There are conflicting explanations regarding the origins of the term "Tin Pan Alley". The most popular account holds that it was originally a derogatory reference made by Monroe H. Rosenfeld in the New York Herald to the collective sound made by many "cheap upright pianos" all playing different tunes being reminiscent of the banging of tin pans in an alleyway.
The song was sung during a wedding in the opening chapter of Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle". The chorus is used with a slight twist in Baylor University's Alma Mater, "That Good Old Baylor Line." The song appears in the 1978 episode of The Muppet Show performed by Pearl Bailey and Floyd Pepper, a member of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
"Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg) exemplifies the 20th-century popular 32-bar song. [1]The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the songwriting team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, known as "Howard and Emerson". [1] Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone .
The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1909. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was also used in the short-lived Broadway show Miss Innocence (September 27-October 9, 1909) when it was sung by Frances Farr. [1]
"Lovesick Blues" is a Tin Pan Alley song, composed by Cliff Friend, with lyrics by Irving Mills. It first appeared in the 1922 musical "Oh, Ernest", and was recorded that year by Elsie Clark and Jack Shea. Emmett Miller recorded it in 1925 and 1928, followed by country music singer Rex Griffin in 1939.
Implicit in the song is the notion of trains as the fastest, safest and most comfortable means of transport at the time, which adds to the positive image of the character returning home. [6] Its reference to the Southern United States was a common thread in many of Jolson's songs, such as " Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody " and ...