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Now in our thirteenth year, over 6 Million Visitors, over 1,300 songs and over 130 articles published to date!
  • NEW Irving Berlin CD setRelease. Rich Beil and our new female vocalist, Debbie Purdue, have provided their great talent to sing thirty two of Irving Berlin's early songs. This exciting new release features some songs you may already know and many you probably have never heard. Several of the songs are modern day premier recordings, not heard for nearly 100 years. Check it out on our shopping page . This release is the second in a series of CDs by Rich.
  • Educators & Students: Want to use our materials in your courses? See our liberal policy for academic use of our site's materials.
  • Composer Biographies Page We've consolidated all of our "mini" biographies and placed them on one page. If you are looking for basic information on the composers of Tin Pan Alley, this one page lists details on over 260 composers, lyricists and others associated with American popular music from the past. You can see the new composers page here. We'll update the page regularly as we add biographies.
  • FREE! Ragtime Sheet Music Screen saver. A Ragtime sheet music cover screen saver, no cost, no ads, no nags, just some great covers and music to thank you for being a loyal ParlorSongs fan. Get the details and download information here.

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