Thomas S. Allen
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Thomas S. Allen (1876, Natick, Massachusetts – 1919, Boston, Massachusetts), an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist.[1]
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[edit] Popular songs
In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", became a major hit.
[edit] 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
- T. S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land.[2]
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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.
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