Fred Ahlert, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

Overview and Commentary Fred Ahlert

Ahlert served as a director of ASCAP for 20 years, from 1933 to 1953, and as its president from 1948 to 1950. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Selected Albums/Videos Featuring a Song or Songs by Fred Ahlert

• I Don't Know Why (I just do)
  
• I'll Follow You
  
• I'll Get By (as long as I have you)
  
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
• Mean to Me
  
• Walkin' My Baby Back Home
  
• Where the Blue of the Night (meets the gold of the day)

Research Resources: Fred Ahlert

• Fredahlertmusic.com: "The Songs of Fred Ahlert" (Ahlert's standards with those who have recorded them.
• Fred Ahlert Music Group: song list, song licensing, etc.
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (includes citations for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
• ThePeaches.com: Ahlert Lyrics (lyrics of selected Ahlert songs)
• "Songs by Sinatra" (Ahlert Songs recorded by Frank Sinatra
• Songwriters Hall of Fame
  (includes biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Fred Ahlert article)
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 7).
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 (pp. 416-419, hard cover Ed.).
• David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies at abebooks.com, (Ahlert entry pp. 11-13).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 5-6).

Notes

• From the Ahlert biogrpahy at Songwriters Hall of Fame
• Life Is a Song - The Songs of Fred Ahlert (25 songs by Ahlert--various artists)

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