B. G. De Sylva (Buddy De Sylva), songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• Avalon
• The Best Things in Life Are Free
• Birth of the Blues
• Button Up Your Overcoat
• Do it Again
• It All Depends on You
• Look for the Silver LIning
• Rise 'n' Shine
• Should I Be Sweet?
• Somebody Loves Me
• Stairway to Paradise

Research Resources: B. G. (Buddy) De Sylva

• Allmusic.com (brief biography)
• Amazon (books by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (writing and arrangements credits)
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits);
• The New York Times (articles about the songwriter);
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (B. G. De Sylva 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 p. 170).
• 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 (De Sylva entry, pp. 114-117).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (pp. 87-94, plus many other references)
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (De Sylva entry, pp. 87-89).
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (multiple references).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2000 (chapter on De Sylva, Brown [Lew] and Henderson [Ray], pp. 55-59).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--De Sylva, Brown [Lew] and Henderson [Ray]-pp. 202-204).

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