Frank Harding
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Frank Harding
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Frank Harding (1864-1939) was a Tin Pan Alley music publisher, who was credited with creating the method of selling music called plugging. Harding paid singers to sing his published songs in shops and beer halls to get them known and attract customers. Composers such as Irving Berlin and George Gershwin later got their starts as pluggers. He was active from the 1880s through the 1920s. While the Tin Pan Alley group of publishers was characterized as a group of "brash young men" who entered the m
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American music publisher (1880–1925)
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