EVENING
TIN PAN
SONGWRITERS: MITCHELL PARISH & HARRY A. WHITE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE HOME BARTENDER’S SONGBOOK
LABEL: TIN PAN
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2011
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music
publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music
of the United States in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street
between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower
District of Manhattan; a
plaque (see below) on the sidewalk on 28th
Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it.
In 2019, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission took up the question of preserving five buildings on the north side
of the street as a Tin Pan Alley Historic District. The agency designated five
buildings (47–55 West 28th Street) individual landmarks on December 10, 2019,
after a concerted effort by the "Save Tin Pan Alley" initiative of
the 29th Street Neighborhood Association. Following successful protection of
these landmarks, project director George Calderaro and other proponents formed
the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project to continue and commemorate
the legacy of Tin Pan Alley with various advocacy and educational activities.
On April 2, 2022, 28th Street between
Broadway and 6th Avenue was officially co-named “Tin Pan Alley” by the City of
New York in a celebration featuring NYC City Councilmember Erik Bottcher,
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and representatives from the NYC
Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership and the
Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project which advocated for the co-naming.
The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated
to about 1885, when a number of music publishers set up shop in the same
district of Manhattan. The end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear cut. Some date it
to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph,
radio, and motion pictures supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others
consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of
music were upstaged by the rise of rock & roll,
which was centered on the Brill Building.
Brill Building songwriter Neil Sedaka described his employer as being a natural outgrowth of Tin Pan
Alley, in that the older songwriters were still employed in Tin Pan Alley firms
while younger songwriters such as Sedaka found work at the Brill Building.
Evening, every
night you come and you find me
Why must you
always remind me, that my baby's gone
Evening, you got
me deeper in your power
Every minute
seems like an hour
Since my baby's
gone
Shadows fall upon
the wall
That's the time I
miss your kisses most of all
Even though I
try, how can I go on
Oh evening, let
me sleep 'til the glow of dawn is breaking
I don't care if I
don't awaken
Since my baby's
gone
Shadows fall upon
the wall
That's the time I
miss your kisses most of all
Even though I
try, how can I go on
Oh evening, let
me sleep 'til the glow of dawn is breaking
I don't care if I
don't awaken
Since my baby's
gone.
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