Ray Henderson, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Research Resources: Ray Henderson
- AllMusic.com: overview, songs, creidts
- 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)
- Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Ray Henderson
- 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, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- The New York Times (obituary: PDF format Adobe Reader required.)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (Ray Henderson 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. 223)
- 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. 214-219).
- Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (pp. 87-89).
- Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (discussion . . . pp. 39-40 and other pages). - William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001, pp. 55-57 on DeSylva, Brown and Henderson.
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entries for De Sylva, Brown and Henderson and their publishing Co., pp. 108-111).
- Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--pp. 202-204 for DeSylva, Brown and Henderson).
Questions
What is Ray Henderson, songwriter?
Cite this page as "Ray Henderson, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/h_i_sws/henderson_ray.html
How should Ray Henderson, songwriter be cited?
Cite this page as "Ray Henderson, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/h_i_sws/henderson_ray.html
Which Cafe Songbook pages are related?
Also read "Bye Bye Blackbird" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/b/bye_bye_blackbird.html); "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/im_sitting_on_top_of_the_world.html); Edward Heyman, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/h_i_sws/heyman_edward.html); Lorenz Hart, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/h_i_sws/hart_lorenz.html).
Cite this page: Ray Henderson, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany, Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/h_i_sws/henderson_ray.html