Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heart was grown in the same fertile Tin Pan Alley patch as Dardanella, Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Blue Is the Night, Ireland Must Be Heaven, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. But Peg O' My Heart grew more slowly than Fred Fisher's other hits, did not reach full bloom until the doughboys came home whistling...
...Irving Berlin of his day. His Dardanella (he wrote the lyrics) sold an alltime high of six million records and almost two million copies of sheet music. He organized the Fred Fisher Music Co., grossed nearly $1,000,000 in his first year. Later, as a manager of another Tin Pan Alley firm (Harms), Fred Fisher had such hopefuls as George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on his staff...
Hearing his favorite classics mangled by a dance band, many a music lover has longed to take out after the guilty man, but most lovers of the classics do not know where to look. A 32-year-old Tin Pan Alleyite named Ted Mossman is their...
Among the few composers spared Mossman's working-over were Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Last week Schumann took the count. Mossman published three Tin Pan Alley adaptations of Schumann, timed to soften up the U.S. for a movie on Schumann's life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...
...Vienna, the tram conductors are cheerful. They are among the few people who know where they are going these days, and they proudly wear the Social-Democratic party flower on their caps-red tin carnations. The trolleys, which are just as red, again rattle through the streets with people hanging like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead...