Thomas S. Allen (1876–1919), an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist.[1] He was born in Natick, Massachusetts, and died in Boston.
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Popular songs edit
In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", became a major hit. Its companion song is "Scissors to Grind".
Modern impact edit
- "Whip and Spur" (1902) is performed at circuses and rodeos.
- "Low Bridge, Everybody Down", also known as "Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal" or "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal" (1913) is a well-known song, often referred to as a folk song. Included in the Seeger Sessions, folk album by Bruce Springsteen
- T. S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land.[2]
References edit
- ^ Thomas S. Allen: Information and Much More from Answers.com
- ^ Chinitz, David (2004). "In the Shadows: Popular Song and Eliot's Construction of Emotion". Modernism/modernity. 11 (3): 449–467. doi:10.1353/mod.2004.0053. S2CID 143814386.
External links edit
The list of Allen's works omits his 1914 composition "I Wonder What Will William Tell", Music by "X, with apologies to G. Rossini", Daly Music Publishing, Boston Mass.