Tin Pan Alley

[Grant Barrett]

On 9/30/01 17:52, "Bapopik at AOL.COM" <Bapopik at AOL.COM> wrote:

>  A newspaper reporter, Monroe H. Rosenfeld, found Mr. Von Tilzer playing one
> day on a piano muted with newspaper stuck between the keys and the strings,
> and asked, "What kind of a tin pan do you call that?"  Mr. Von Tilzer laughed
> and said, "This street must sound like a tin-pan alley with so many pianos
> making such a din."  The reporter called his story, "Tin-Pan Alley," and the
> name stuck.

Why do stories giving dubious credit to someone for coining a word or phrase
always seem to end with "...and the name stuck"?

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