Pan Alley

Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017 Produced by Henry H. Sapoznik, Dick Spottswood, David Giovannoni 3 CDs - 81 selections - 42 never before reissued - 72 page illustrated book Foreword by Dom Flemons - Opening essay Henry H. Sapoznik Track annotations Henry H. Sapoznik and Dick Spottswood Audio transfers by Doug Benson - Design by Andrew Roberts

From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart–even today these giants remain household names, their musicals regularly revived, their methods and styles analyzed and imitated, and their songs the bedrock of jazz and cabaret.

From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music.

• In London it's Denmark Street, in New York, it lies between Sixth Avenue and Broadway. But both locations are known as 'Tin Pan Alley', although the origins of the name has muddied with time. But what remains unchanged is their importance in the entertainment industry. For both in London and New York, Tin Pan Alley is where the all-important music publishers are based, and from where their songs go out across the world. For nearly a century, they have provided the world with some of its best known popular songs. Even if you weren't born when these songs were released, you will be familiar not just with the songs themselves, but also the legendary artists who recorded them •