"Tin Pan Alley"

[Gerald Cohen]

Barry,

   Please send me the "tin pan alley" information, and I'll print it
in _Comments on Etymology_ with full credit to you.

Jerry


>...At 12:27 PM -0500 3/2/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>    My 1903 (not 1902) NEW YORK WORLD "tin pan alley" was a nice find, but no
>one will ever know that.  They'll know what the NY TIMES tells them, that it
>was popularized by Monroe Rosenfeld in the 1920s, and that isn't true:...