Tin Pan Alley
Jolson encouraged Friend and Richman to move to New York, where they became part of Tin Pan Alley. Friend collaborated with leading songwriters Abel Baer, Lew Brown, Irving Caesar, Sidney Clare, Billy Rose and Charles Tobias, and Jolson assisted Friend by placing songs in the musicals he was acting in, including The Passing Show and Bombo.
Friend's first hit was in 1923, called "You Tell Her - I Stutter" and co-written with Billy Rose, it was recorded by The Happiness Boys. Over the next 15 years Friend also co-wrote "Lovesick Blues," "June Night," "Then I'll Be Happy," "(Oh) If I Only Had You," "A Night in June (Beneath the Moon)," "My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now," "It Goes Like This," "You're a Real Sweetheart," "Bashful Baby," "I Want to Sing About You," "It's Great to Be In Love," "Let's Have a Party,", "Don't Let Temptation Turn You Around", "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven," "When My Dream Boat Comes Home," "You've Got Me In the Palm of Your Hand," "Out Where the Blue Begins" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down." "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" was used as the theme song in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon series.
Cliff Friend died in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974.
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Famous quotes containing the words tin, pan and/or alley:
“A ‘spasm band’ is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mixed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.”
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A ‘spasm band’ is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mixed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.”
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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through water.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)