Thomas S. Allen
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Thomas S. Allen (1876 - 1919) was an American Vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist[1]. Allen was an early figure in Tin Pan Alley[2]. Allen was born in Natick, Massachusetts and died in Boston.
[edit] Popular Songs
In 1902 his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", become a major hit.
[edit] 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" (1905) has now become a folk song.
T.S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land, including Allen's 1904 "coon song" called "By the Watermelon Vine"[3].
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