Thomas S. Allen

Thomas S. Allen

Thomas S. Allen (b. 1876, Natick, Massachusetts, d. 1919, Boston, Massachusetts), an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist. [ [http://www.johnovertonband.org/conc9900.htm] Dead link|date=March 2008] [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/thomas-s-allen Thomas S. Allen: Information and Much More from Answers.com ] ]

Popular songs

In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", become 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.
* T. S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for "The Waste Land". [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v011/11.3chinitz.html Project MUSE ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.grainger.de/music/composers/wv_allents.html List of Works]


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