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

• Almost Like Being in Love
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• On the Street Where You Live
• Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

Research Resources: Frederick Loewe

• AllMusic.com (overview, credits, compositions)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• FrederichLoewe.org ("The Official Frederick Loewe Website, sponsored by The Frederick Loewe Foundation, New York" -- includes biography, show list, photos, etc.)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Frederick Loewe
• 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)
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography, photo and song list)
• Wikipedia (Frederick Loewe article)
• Alan Jay Lerner. The Street Where I Live. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978 (the lyricist's autobiography includes considerable reference to his main writing partner, Loewe).
• 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. 308).
• 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 Loewe and Lerner, pp. 265-271).
• Gene Lees, Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe, New York: St. Martins Press, 1990.
• 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 -- contains considerable reference to Loewe).
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (pp. 272-273 plus other references).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (pp. 229-233 chapter on Lerner and Loewe plus other references).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (pp. 260-261, entry for Lerner and Loewe plus other references to them).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (pp. 427-428, entry for Lerner and Loewe).

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