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

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Rube Bloom

Peter Mentun Plays Rube Bloom's 1926 compostion, "Soliloquy (A Musical Thought)" and comments that the piece is "A pensive, modernistic tone poem."

• Day In, Day Out
  
• Don't Worry 'Bout Me
  
• Fools Rush In
• Give Me the Simple Life
  
• I Can't Face the Music (without singing the blues)
  
• Maybe You'll Be There

Research Resources: Rube Bloom

• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Rube Bloom
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for recordings, sheet music, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• SongsBySinatra.com (Rube Bloom songs recorded by Frank Sinatra
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (includes biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Bloom article)
• 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 pp. 63-64).
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- pp. 436-442 and other references).
• "The Man from the South": 240252
• Peter Mentin, "Soliloquy (A Musical Thought)": petermintunmusic
• Ruth Etting, "Out in the Cold Again": Aad Juijn

Notes

• Ruth Etting sings "Out in the Cold Again" (1934), music by Rube Bloom, lyrics by Ted Koehler .

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