Forget the Sunday TIMES MAGAZINE. Today's NEW YORK TIMES City Section FYI discusses "Tin Pan Alley." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/nyregion/02FYI.html Stop the torture and kill me already! "Tin Pan Alley" was done just recently at The Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtinpanalley.html