Ervin Drake, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Research Resources: Ervin Drake
- Amazon (publications 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)
- JazzBiographies.com (Biographical sketch of Drake)
- Georgia State University: The Ervin Drake Collection
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
- Todd Peaches Lyrics page for Ervin Drake (selected lyrics as sung by various performers for Drake's songs)
- Songwriters Guild of America (article on Drake, a former president of The Guild, being honored by The Guild)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- WhatMakesSammyRun.net (biography of Drake)
- Wikipedia (Drale 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. 184-185)
- 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. 124-127).
- Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (entry, pp. 538-539, brief Bio. and lyrics to three songs).
Notes
- Photo Portrait of Ervin Drake by Robert Armin , presented under Wikipedia Commons license.
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