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Name
  
Thomas Allen


Role
  
Composer

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Died
  
1919, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Thomas S. Allen - Whip and Spur


Thomas S. Allen (1876, Natick, Massachusetts – 1919, Boston, Massachusetts), an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist.

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In 1902, his popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags", became a major hit.

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) is a well-known folk song. Included in the Seeger Sessions, folkalbum by Bruce Springsteen
  • T. S. Eliot spliced lines together from two songs for The Waste Land.

    • References

    Thomas S. Allen Wikipedia
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