All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music — Season 1, Episode 7: Always Chasin' Rainbows (Tin Pan Alley)
Documentary • 55 min • 1 season, 17 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
The story of Tin Pan Alley, where hit records were made to order and the first sightings of the popular music industry emerged. With contributions by Bing Crosby and Perry Como. Starring: Bing Crosby, Perry Como
About All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
A 17-part television documentary series on the history of modern pop music covering some of the many different genres that have fallen under the label of "popular music" between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Introductory Programme
- E2God's Children
- E3I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation (Ragtime)
- E4Jungle Music (Jazz)
- E5Who's That Comin'? (The Blues)
- E6Rude Songs (Vaudeville and Music Hall)
- E8Diamonds As Big As the Ritz (The Musical)
- E9Swing That Music! (Swing)
- E10Good Times (Rhythm and Blues)
- E11Making Moonshine (Country Music)
- E12Go Down, Moses! (Folk 'War Songs')
- E13Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll (Rock n Roll)