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

• Aren't You Glad You're You?
  
• But Beautiful
• The Day After Forever
• Here's That Rainy Day
  
• Imagination
  
• It Could Happen to You
  
• Like Someone in Love
• Misty
  
• Moonlight Becomes You
  
• Oh! You Crazy Moon
  
• Pennies from Heaven
  
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• Swinging On A Star
• What's New?

Research Resources: Johnny Burke

• Amazon (books by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.);
• Answers.com article
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway production song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (movie credits for songs)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
• The New York Times (various articles on the songwriter)
• ThePeaches.com Lyrics pages (selected lyrics of Johnny Burke as sung by various performers)
• This Weeks Jazz Notes, Oct. 5, 2006 (focus on Johnny Burke as lyricist for Bing Crosby);
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (urke 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. 91-92)
• 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 is available at abebooks.com (entry, pp. 74-76).
• Gary Giddins, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940
  Boston: Little Brown, 2001 (multiple references to Burke)
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--Burke, Van Heusen, Cahn--pp. 190-192).

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