Description

The American Song Book, Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first of a planned five-volume series of books that will reprint the sheet-music (including covers) of songs by Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, and other great songwriters from what has been called The Golden Age of American popular music, along with historical essays, biographical sketches, and musical analyses and anecdotes.

CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction
Tin Pan Alley
Charles K. Harris
After the Ball
Ragtime
Hello, Ma Baby
Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?
Bob Cole and F. Rosamond and James Weldon Johnson
Under the Bamboo Tree
George M. Cohan
Give My Regards to Broadway
The Yankee Doodle Boy
You’re a Grand Old Flag
Shelton Brooks
Some of These Days
Irving Berlin
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
The Dance Craze
Everybody’s Doin’ It Now
Ernie Burnett
My Melancholy Baby
Joseph McCarthy and James Monaco
You Made Me Love You
W. C. Handy
St, Louis Blues
Jerome Kern
They Didn’t Believe Me
ASCAP
Irving Berlin on Broadway
Play a Simple Melody
I Love a Piano
Spencer Williams
I Ain’t Got Nobody
George M. Cohan Goes to War
Over There
The Princess Shows
P. G. Wodehouse
Till the Clouds Roll By
Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
After You’ve Gone
Joseph McCarthy and Harry Carroll
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows
Private Irving Berlin
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
The Ziegfeld Follies
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
George Gershwin
Swanee
Otto Harbach
The Love Nest
Buddy DeSylva
Avalon
Look for the Silver Lining
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
I’m Just Wild About Harry
Irving Berlin and The Music Box Theater
Say It With Music
All by Myself’
Gus Kahn
Ain’t We Got Fun
Walter Donaldson
Carolina in the Morning
Fred Fisher
Chicago
Ira Gershwin
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
Notes and References