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Wait until they find out who wrote most of those Christmas tin pan alley songs
by selimthegrim 4y ago
Wait until they find out who wrote most of those Christmas tin pan alley songs
- ticviking 4y agoIt’s not a surprise to anyone who has studied show business at all. The Boscht belt and its associated Jewish entertainment circuit was a critical incubator of talent for our nations popular music. No one is hiding any of this, and it’s trivial to read a memoir from many musicians and see a story about how they wanted to feel more included in the increasingly secularized holidays so they wrote music that was about the stuff that included in them.