TIN PAN ALLEY: The Shady Side of the Street

"In a world that's so troubled and so insecure," says a vice president of a music publishing firm trying to make it sound psychologically profound, "teenagers find that the only thing that's eternal and everlasting is love after death." Since that's what the young are supposed to want, that's what they are getting. The more violent the death, the more violent the passion pouring from the nation's jukeboxes. Keens one kid on Teen Angel, an M-G-M release:

Teen angel, can you hear me? Teen angel, can you see me? Are you somewhere up...

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