Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Tin Pan Alley
Charles K. Harris
"After the Ball"
Ragtime
"Hello, Ma Baby"
"Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?"
Bob Cole and F. Rosamond and James Weldon Johnson
"Under the Bamboo Tree"
George M. Cohan
"Give My Regards to Broadway"
"The Yankee Doodle Boy"
"You're a Grand Old Flag"
Shelton Brooks
"Some of These Days"
Irving Berlin
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
The Dance Craze
"Everybody's Doin' It Now"
Ernie Burnett
"My Melancholy Baby"
Joseph McCarthy and James Monaco
"You Made Me Love You"
W. C. Handy
"St, Louis Blues"
Jerome Kern
"They Didn't Believe Me"
ASCAP
Irving Berlin on Broadway
"Play a Simple Melody"
"I Love a Piano"
Spencer Williams
"I Ain't Got Nobody"
George M. Cohan Goes to War
"Over There"
The Princess Shows
P. G. Wodehouse
"Till the Clouds Roll By"
Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
"After You've Gone"
Joseph McCarthy and Harry Carroll
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"
Private Irving Berlin
"Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"
The Ziegfeld Follies
"A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody"
George Gershwin
"Swanee"
Otto Harbach
"The Love Nest"
Buddy DeSylva
"Avalon"
"Look for the Silver Lining"
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
"I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Irving Berlin and The Music Box Theater
"Say It With Music"
"All by Myself'
Gus Kahn
"Ain't We Got Fun"
Walter Donaldson
"Carolina in the Morning"
Fred Fisher
"Chicago"
Ira Gershwin
"I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise"
Notes and References

About the Author

Philip Furia has written several books on American popular song, including biographies of Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer. His work has been praised in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and other publications, and he has been interviewed on Larry King Live, Fresh Air, A & E's Biography, and other national and international radio and television programs.

Laurie Patterson is co-authored with Philip Furia of The Songs of Hollywood. Her other publications have centered around her research on gender and technology.