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

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Irving Caesar

"Caesar tells the story of his collaboration with George Gershwin, "Swanee," as well as many other songs, and ends up by singing a rock and roll song he wrote! Courtesy of Ian Whitcomb."

Before Caesar launches into his "Rock and Roll" song, he talks with Whitcomb about his collaboration with Vincent Youmans on No No Nannette, especially on "Tea for Two"

• Crazy Rhythm
• I Want to Be Happy
  
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Swanee
  
• Tea for Two

Research Resources: Irving Caesar

• Amazon (publications by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, 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 (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• Irving Caesar website
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.);
• The New York Times (articles about the songwriter)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia article
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 71)
• Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters. New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008. (originally published 1973 as They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim—The Stories behind the Words and Music of Two Generations (Introduction predominantly an interview with Caesar).
• Gerald Bordman, Days To Be Happy, Years To Be Sad: The Life and Music of Vincent Youmans, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982 (multiple and extensive comments about Caesar).
• 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 (Caesar entry, pp. 76-78).
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (Caesar on pp. 21, 45, 89).
• Richard Severo. "Irving Caesar, Lyricist of Timeless Hits like 'Tea for Two,' Dies at 101." The New York Times, Dec. 18, 1996 (obituary).
• Reading Lyrics, Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (brief biography and multiple lyrics, pp. 219-224.
• Ian Whitcomb interviews Irving Caesar: adamgswanson;

Notes

• Ian Whitcomb Interviews Irving Caesar, Part 1 (1972)
• Ian Whitcomb Interviews Irving Caesar, Part 2 (1972)

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