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 ...

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 neighborhood that was once the hub of the American music-publishing industry in the early 20th century has undergone many transformations since it became known as Tin Pan Alley. Between 1893 and ...

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 ...

Rock historian Ed Ward explains how New York City's Tin Pan Alley songwriters coped with changing times in the 1960s. The Beatles changed the paradigm of popular music. Bands started writing their own ...

Tyrone Power and Don Ameche were originally set for the top honors with Alice Faye, but casting assignments necessitated shifts of Jack Oakie and John Payne into the Power-Ameche slots, and addition ...