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AMG: Vocal Music (Popularity:  )
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=F0VOCAL
Overview of the genre, essay, key artists and albums, and recent releases.
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American Popular Song (Popularity: )
http://www.americanpopularsong.com/
Message board and directories of singers, songwriters, movies, and shows.
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Craig's BigBands and BigNames (Popularity: )
http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/
Historic reviews and photos from performers of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Includes old time radio broadcast, quiz, and message ...
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Ian Whitcomb's Literary Corner (Popularity: )
http://www.picklehead.com/ian/literary.htm
Includes articles on Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and the first crooners.
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JD Hay's Crooners (Popularity: )
http://www.angelfire.com/retro2/croonerjd/index.html
Library of songs in WAV format, including those by several pop artists and a 1950s collection.
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Parlor Songs (Popularity: )
http://parlorsongs.com/index.asp
Collection of popular and classical sheet music from the 1800's to the 1940's, cover art, audio samples, composer biographies, and ...
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Jukebox: American Popular Music in the 1930s (Popularity: )
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/Jukebox/front.html
Includes 40 audio files, with background and commentary.
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Wikipedia: Melodic Music (Popularity: )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre#Melodic_music
Defines "melodic" genre as the vocal-oriented popular American music style that came after big band music but before rock and ...
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Topix.net: Vocal (Popularity: )
http://rss.topix.net/rss/music/vocal.xml
News about vocal, collected from various sources on the web.
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American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Baseball Songs (Popularity: )
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri045.html
Includes sheet music covers of several baseball songs, the first of which was written in 1858.
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Classic Railroad Songs (Popularity: )
http://home.mindspring.com/~mhyatt2/index.html
Collections of songs since 1930, including historical profiles of song and CD ordering.
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Froggy's Novelty Song Lyric Collection (Popularity: )
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5109/Novcont.html
Songs popular during the first third of the twentieth century as transcribed from period phonograph recordings.
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Slate: The Worst Songwriter of All Time (Popularity: )
http://slate.msn.com/id/2898/
Mark Steyn's article on Bob Merrill and novelty songs in general.
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World War One Songs (Popularity: )
http://nfo.net/usa/ww1.html
List of popular songs, some with audio samples.
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Strong, Frank (Popularity: )
http://www.rrsongs.com/
Performer of traditional American railroad songs and harmonica instructor. Includes profile, audio samples, CD ordering, and links.
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PBS American Masters: Women of Tin Pan Alley (Popularity: )
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/tin_pan_alley.html
Brief profiles of Dorothy Fields, Kay Swift, Dana Suesse, and Ann Ronell.
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Parlor Songs: In Search of Tin Pan Alley (Popularity: )
http://www.parlorsongs.com/insearch/tinpanalley/tinpanalley.asp
History and photographs.
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Pro-Culture Editions: Tin Pan Alley and Its Publishing Houses (Popularity: )
http://www.proculture.com/ragtime1.htm
History with a focus on the publishing house M. Witmark & Sons.
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AMG: Tin Pan Alley Pop (Popularity: )
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=C4298
Overview of the style, related styles, and list of key artists.
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Don Ferguson's Tin Pan Alley (Popularity: )
http://www.geocities.com/dferg5493/
RealAudio, MIDI files, lyrics, chords, and sheet music.
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