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

Overview and Commentary Gus Kahn (This section remains in progress)

• Ain't We Got Fun
• Can't We Be Friends?
• The Carioca
• Coquette
• Dream a Little Dream of Me
• Guilty
• I'll Never Be the Same
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• I'm Through with Love
• It Had To Be You
• Love Me or Leave Me
• Makin' Whoopee
• My Baby Just Cares for Me
• My Buddy
• The One I Love
• Yes Sir, That's My Baby
• You Stepped Out of a Dream

"Riptide" (1934 Sheet Music) music by Walter Donaldson
lyrics by Gus Kahn
from the movie Riptide
with Norma Shearer and George Montgomery

Research Resources: Gus Kahn

• AllMusic.com (overview, credits, etc.)
• Amazon
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Film Reference (Chronology of films and biographical essay)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Gus Kahn
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• Jazz Biographies.com (brief biog.)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Gus Kahn 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. 258)
• 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. 233-235).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (pp. 75-83 and other references).
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (multiple references).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 55-66, brief bio. and lyrics to 18 songs).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003.
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--pp. 250-251).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry--p. 387).

Notes

• Ken Bloom, The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs , New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2005.
• "I'll Never Be The Same" sheet music

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