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

• Sugar (that sugar baby o' mine)
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Them There Eyes

Research Resources: Maceo Pinkard

• Amazon (publications, 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 (In Harmony): Maceo Pinkard
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• Library of Congress Peforming Arts Encyclopedia (brief Bio.)
• Mudcat.org (Mudcat Cafe forum on Pinkard)
• Network54.com ( a study of Pinkard's song "I'll Be a Friend with Pleasure," especially Bix Beiderbecke version, includes photo of Pinkard.
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter--including obituary)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Maceo Pinkard article)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 (three references to Pinkard include comments on "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Them There
  Eyes," and Pinkard himsef.).
• 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. 397)
• Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (Bio. and commentary, p. 74).
• David A. Jasen and Gene Jones, Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930, New York: Schirmer Books, 1998 (entry pp. 183-191 and other references -- hardcover Ed.)
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 375-377). .
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (Comments on Pinkard in "Sweet Georgia Brown" entry).
• Pinkard Overview: 35ruff / West Virginia Music Hall of Fame
• "Sugar" Ethel Waters: warholsoup100

Notes

• Ethel Waters: The Very Best Of 1921-1947
• (includes the track "Sugar" on video at left)

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