The 31-minute doc that explains why your grandparents' playlist slaps harder than yours.
Writing
Packs a century of music history into a tight half-hour.
Production
Rare archival footage of actual Tin Pan Alley song-pluggers.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Philip Furia, one of the talking heads, literally wrote the book on Tin Pan Alley—his 1990 history is still the standard academic text.
The 'Alley' itself was real: West 28th Street in Manhattan, where publishers crammed into lofts and competing songwriters would literally try to out-loud each other through open windows.
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