Thomas S. Allen

Thomas S. Allen (1876–1919), an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist.[1] He was born in Natick, Massachusetts, and died in Boston.

Cover of sheet music published in 1913.

In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", became a major hit.

Modern impact
  • "Whip and Spur" (1902) is performed at circuses and rodeos.
  • "Low Bridge, Everybody Down", also known as "Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal" or "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal" (1913) is a well-known song, often referred to as a folk song. Included in the Seeger Sessions, folkalbum by Bruce Springsteen
  • T. S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land.[2]

References
  1. Thomas S. Allen: Information and Much More from Answers.com
  2. Project MUSE

The list of Allen's works omits his 1914 composition "I Wonder What Will William Tell", Music by "X, with apologies to G. Rossini", Daly Music Publishing, Boston Mass.


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