Bert Kalmar, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Research Resources: Bert Kalmar
- AllMusic.com (overview and credits)
- Amazon (publications by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
- California (Univ. of) at Santa Barbara (Victor Discography of recording with Bert Kalmar as lyricist and as composer.)
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
- Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Bert Kalmar
- 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 (articles about or related to the songwriter)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (Bert Kalmar 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. 260).
- 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 Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby pp. 340-344).
- Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 35-38, overview of Kalmar and Ruby plus lyrics for five songs).
- Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry for Kalmar and Ruby -- p. 255).
- Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry for Kalmar and Ruby--pp. 387-388).
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