"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"
Other songs written for the show Oh, Look! currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none.
Research Resources: Harry Carroll
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Internet Broadway Database (Broadway production song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief bio and movie song credits)
- MaeWest.blogspot.com (Notes on a young Mae West and Carroll, including background on Carroll, Dec. 26, 2010)
- New York Public Library catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
- The New York Times (articles about the songwriter)
- ParlorSongs.com ("Stormy Weather: Tin Pan Alley Celebrates the Weather." May, 2007 (includes small article on Harry Carroll and Ballard McDonald song "Rain with the Sunshine" plus Carroll biography.)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (Carroll article)
- Yale University Library (American Musical Theater Collection Gilmore Music Library, Yale University, 2010 -- "Harry Carroll and Joseph McCarthy 'I'm Always Chasing Rainbows' Based on Chopin's 'Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66' -- (notes on how Carroll adapted Chopin for the song)
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (dates, career, shows/movies, songs; 3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 110)
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 68-69).
- Mandy Patinkin: respectanimals
Notes
- View complete song list for Oh, Look! at IBDB .
Questions
What is I'm Always Chasing Rainbows?
Other songs written for the show Oh, Look! currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook : none.
How should I'm Always Chasing Rainbows be cited?
Cite this page as ""I'm Always Chasing Rainbows": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/im_always_chasing_rainbows.html
Which Cafe Songbook pages are related?
Also read "I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/im_an_old_cowhand.html); "I'm a Fool To Want You" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/im_a_fool_to_want_you.html); "I'm Beginning To See the Light" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/im_beginning_to_see_the_light.html); "ill Wind" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/ill_wind.html).
Cite this page: "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video, Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/im_always_chasing_rainbows.html