Alan Jay Lerner, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• Almost Like Being in Love
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
• On the Street Where You Live
• Too Late Now
• Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
• You're All the World to Me

Research Resources: Alan Jay Lerner

• 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: Alan Jay Lerner
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Off-Broadway Database (off-Broadway productions of Lerner shows.
• 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)
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography, photos and song list)
• Wikipedia (Alan Jay Lerner article)
• Alan Jay Lerner. The Street Where I Live. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978 (the lyricist's autobiography).
• 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 Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman pp. 96-99).
• Gene Lees, Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe, New York: St. Martins Press, 1990.
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (pp. 95-106, chapter on Lerner).
• Edward Jablonski. Alan Jay Lerner: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1996 (focuses on the making of three musicals: My Fair Lady, Camelot and Gigi).
• 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. 526-535 overview of Lerner plus lyrics to sixteen songs).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (chapter on Lerner and Loew plus multiple references).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, p. 256).
• Benny Green, Ed., A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, New York: Limelight Editions, 2004.
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--pp. 260-261 plus other references).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry on Lerner and Loew--pp. 427-428).

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