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What is Tin Pan Alley?
His employer was Jerome H.
Remick and Company, a Detroit-based publishing firm with a branch office on New York City's Tin Pan Alley, and he earned $15 a week.
What did he do in that company?
"song plugger.
what is plugger?
His first published song was "When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em" in 1916 when Gershwin was only 17 years old.
Did he do broadway shows?
The two collaborated on the Broadway musicals Piccadilly to Broadway (1920) and For Goodness' Sake (1922).

Question: where they popular?
Self-contained rewrite: were the Broadway musicals Piccadilly to Broadway (1920) and For Goodness' Sake (1922) popular