Tin Pan Alley was becoming a deadend street. More new songs were being published, played and plugged than ever beforebut four of last week's top ten songs on Billboard's hit parade were at least 16 years old.*
Popular-music fans who wanted to wear the New Look were prying into piano benches for faded copies of All of Me, I'm in the Mood for Love, Have You Ever Been Lonely? Record companies rushed out new versions of My Blue Heaven, and Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams.
Last week the dean of the Alley's songwriters, who never had...
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