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

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Cy Coleman

As a jazz pianist Coleman led the Cy Coleman Trio, and as a composer, along with many standard songs, he wrote "Playboy's Theme," which became the theme music of Playboy After Dark. This album, recorded in 1960, includes that theme along with several jazz standards and features Cy Coleman (piano), with Bill Takas (bass), Dave Bailey (drums), Ernie Royal (trumpet) and Wayne Andre (trombone).

• The Best Is Yet To Come
  
• Hey, Look Me Over
  
• I Walk a Little Faster
  
• I'm Gonna Laugh You
• Right Out of My Life
  
• It Amazes Me
• Rules of the Road
• When in Rome (I do as the Romans do)
• Why Try To Change Me Now?
• Witchcraft
• You Fascinate Me So

Research Resources: Cy Coleman

• Amazon (books by and about, recordings, videos, etc.);
• American Theater Wing (Cy Coleman biography)
• ASCAP obituary for Coleman,
• ASCAP Playback Magazine article on Coleman
• 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): Cy Coleman
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments);
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Coleman 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. 93)
• 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--Cy Coleman--pp. 96-100).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--pp. 196-197).
• Wilfred Sheed. The House That George Built: with a Little Help from Irving, Cole and a Crew of about Fifty. New York: Random House, 2007 (pp. 294-300 and other references).

Photo Portrait of Cy Coleman: from Wikipedia Commons: "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License."

• The Best Is Yet to Come The Songs of Cy Coleman and Coleman film shown at tribute concert: NotableMusicCo.
• Cy Coleman, Witchcraft: TheRecordChanger
• Cy Coleman, "Will You Still Be Mine": TheatreCorner

Notes

• Cy Coleman It Started with a Dream (Coleman sings and plays his own works)

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