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词条 Thomas S. Allen
释义

  1. Popular songs

  2. Modern impact

  3. References

  4. External links

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.

Popular songs

In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", became a major hit.

Modern impact

  • "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" (1905) is a well-known folk song. Included in the Seeger Sessions, folkalbum by Bruce Springsteen
  • T. S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land.[2]

References

1. ^Thomas S. Allen: Information and Much More from Answers.com
2. ^Project MUSE

External links

  • List of Works

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.

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