Gordon Laird's TIN PAN ALLEY QUIZ

How well do you know the words to the "Tin Pan Alley" tunes? What gave me this idea was the word "Gossamer" which appears in only one song. Do you know the name of that song?

These songs were written from 1916 to 1948, and all have been popular ever since. These words appear in the main body of the song, not in the verse!

  1. Gossamer
  2. I'll take jello!
  3. Darby and Joan
  4. What's the use of prohibition?
  5. Robinson Crusoe
  6. Chestnuts in blossom
  7. Russian play
  8. Cunning cottage
  9. Webster's Dictionary
  10. Garden of Eden
  11. Lithuanians and Letts
  12. I'm not asbestos
  13. Mystic charms
  14. Clickety clack's a-echoin' back
  15. Full of that Yankee Doodle-dum
  16. Roaring traffic's boom
  17. What rapture serene
  18. Fundamental things apply
  19. Chorus of their squeaky horns
  20. Little "nifties" from the fifties
  21. MacHeath
  22. Angel glow that lights a star

How many can you guess?

If you e-mail me at: dglaird@gmail.com I will send you the complete list by return e-mail.

Copyright: Gordon Laird, March 12, 1998

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