Bob Merrill, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Research Resources: Bob Merrill
- Amazon (publications by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
- Bob Merrill Official Website (biography, discography, photo gallery, etc.)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Wikipedia article
- Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
- The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- Discogs.com (credits: singles, LPs and CD's including songs by this songwriter)
- AllMusic.com (overview, compositions, credits)
- Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Bob Merrill
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1966 edition, entry p. 504).
- 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. 282-285).
- Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (pp. 150-153 and other).
- Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 540-542 overview plus lyrics to four songs).
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry: single paragraph, biog. summary).
- Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 490).
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