Thomas S. Allen an early figure in Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

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, was an American

United States

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 vaudeville

Vaudeville

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 composer

Composer

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, manager, and violin

Violin

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Popular songs

In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische

Schottische

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 and ragtime

Ragtime

Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published...

, "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
  Bruce Springsteen
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• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
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   spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land
  The Waste Land
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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.