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TIN PAN ALLEY: BRIEF HISTORY, AND SOME COMPOSERS AND SONGWRITERS
Early Tin Pan Alley composers and songwriters included Harry von Tilzer, George and Ira Gershwin, Harry Warren, Vincent Youmans, Al Sherman, Irving Berlin, and many more.
From the1930s to the 1950s, Tin Pan Alley moved north again, up to 42nd Street, hub of the theatre district and the broadcasting and east coast recording industries.
By the 1960s, record company A & R directors had taken over from publishers and the name Tin Pan Alley faded.
The Tin Pan Alley era was the golden age of non-performing songwriters (ca. 1885 - ca. 1965). In the 1960s, bands and songwriters who wrote and performed their own material took over the popular music charts.
Since the 1980s a number of producer-songwriters—nonperformers who write and produce songs for pop stars—have become successful. So, in a limited way, this marks a return to Tin Pan Alley.