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

• The Best Is Yet To Come
• Hey, Look Me Over
• How Little We Know
• I Walk a Little Faster
• It Amazes Me
• Rules of the Road
• When in Rome (I do as the Romans do)
• Witchcraft
• You Fascinate Me So

Research Resources: Carolyn Leigh

• 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)
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (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): Stephen Holden. "A Woman's Perspective: Robust Music, Racy Lyrics." The New York Times, March 31, 2008 (review of 92nd Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricist series salute to Carolyn Leigh).
• Off-Broadway Internet Database (off-Broadway credits for Carolyn Leigh)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography, Related Songwriters, and song list)
• Wikipedia (Peggy Lee article)
• 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. 96-100, entry for Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 575-580 overview plus lyrics to eleven songs).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry for Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman--pp. 196-197).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry--p 425.).
• Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, New York: Alfred A Knoph, 2011 (mini-essay on Leigh, p. 309).

Notes

• Witch Craft: The Songs of Carolyn Leigh

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