Paul McCartney is certainly no stranger to what makes a great hit song and, conversely, what doesn’t—the latter of which he was dealing with when trying to record a Tin Pan Alley song he would later ...

Tin Pan Alley, a block known for the creation of popular music by the likes of songwriters Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Hoagy Carmichael and George Gershwin, could finally be landmarked. Earlier this ...

Within the former Tenderloin district, Tin Pan Alley was the tiny sliver of a block of 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Starting in the late 1800s, the stretch was synonymous with ...

The new street signs have finally gone up. Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters that made major contributions to the ...

The owner of five buildings on West 28th Street that comprise the core of the historic “Tin Pan Alley” is trying to block them from being landmarked by pointing to racist tunes emanating from the ...

Thanks to the stirring musical excerpts sampled from “Treemonisha,” many audience members likely will go directly from “The Tin Pan Alley Rag” to their computers to download Scott Joplin’s rarely ...

In 1964, Cyril Gee, one of the stalwarts of Tin Pan Alley and managing director of Mills Music, came home and said to his wife Ruth: "You won't believe this, but even the office boy is writing songs." ...