Betty Comden and Adolph Green, songwriters: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Cafe Songbook Record, book and Video Cabinet: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- Just In Time
- Lonely Town
- Lucky To Be Me
- Make Someone Happy
- New York, New York
- The Party's Over
- Some Other Time
Research Resources: Comden and Green
- American Theater Wing (video of Comden and Green discussing their work)
- Amazon:
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers): Betty Comden; Adolph Green
- Internet Broadway Database: Entries for Betty Comden; Adolph Green (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database: Entries for Betty Comden; Adolph Green (brief biographies, filmographies, movie song credits)
- New York Public Library: Betty Comden; Adolph Green (catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
- NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame articles: Betty Comden and Adolph Green (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia articles: Betty Comden; Adolph Green
- Betty Comden presentations on various websites: Talk given by Betty Comden at Southampton College (L. I. NY) 1999; Jeff Sweet, "Betty Comden and Adolph Green" (Originally published by Dramatics Magazine; Jamie Bernstein); "On Betty Comden" --a remembrance.
- Alice N. Robinson. Betty Comden and Adolph Green: A Bio-Bibliography. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 1993)
- 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--for Betty Comden and Adolph Green--pp. 100-104).
- Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (Comden and Green, pp. 107-112).
- Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--Betty Comden and Adolph Green, pp. 201-202).
- Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The New York Musicals of Comden and Green. New York: Applause Books, 2000 (librettos for On the Town, Wonderful Town and Bells are Ringing, plus intros by the authors).
- Diamonstein interview: DukeLibDigitalColl
- Theater Talk videos: cunytv75
- Patti Lupone and Howard McGillen: bwayrocks
- "Carried Away": theatrecorner
- Comden and Green photo: Wikipedia Commons / public domain
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Also read "Just in Time" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/j/just_in_time.html); "Lonely Town" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/l/lonely_town_m.html); "Lucky to Be Me" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/l/lucky_to_be_me_m.html); "Make Someone Happy" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/m/make_someone_happy.html).
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