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Willkommen

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Lyric by Fred Ebb
Music by John Kander (1966)

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Willkommen! bienvenue, welcome!
Fremder, etranger, stranger
Gluklich zu sehen, Jesuis enchante,
Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay
Willkommen! bienvenue, welcome!
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret!



Welcome to Tin Pan Alley! Although "Wilkommen" is from "Cabaret", a seductive 1966 Broadway musical about Berlin during the rise of the Nazis, I thought this might be an appropriate time to uncover the enigma of the phrase Tin Pan Alley, as most of the following collection of songs is from that now figurative, but longtime literal, place and time. Anecdotally, it goes like this.
On a typical steamy summer afternoon around 1885, a writer for the New York Herald, Monroe Rosenfeld, was walking down 28th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. In those days long before air conditioning, every window in the offices of the burgeoning music publishing business was open and song pluggers were at their trade. Rosenfeld later wrote in a series of articles that it sounded like "hundreds of tin pans being banged in an alley" and the phrase Tin Pan Alley caught on. The actual addresses shifted over the years but the phenomenon of the creation and marketing of American popular music, a defining component of American culture which went 'round the world, from the late 19th century well into the 1950's, remained. The phrase The Great American Songbook arose as part of Tin Pan Alley, referring primarily to songs which became Standards from the 1920s into the 1950's, when rock and roll arrived.

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from No Strings, released August 22, 2014

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No Strings is a Mother/Son duo recording a wide variety of original songs, jazz standards, rock/pop/country/folk songs + spoken word presentations.

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4/27...Tower PorchFest (w/ Tony Imperatrice, and others)

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