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

Ken Bloom comments that Harry Revel and Mack Gordon were immediately successful when they reached Hollywood in 1933 writing the scores for the Paramount movies Broadway Through a Keyhole and Sitting Pretty, the latter of which contained there big hit "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking." When they changed studios in 1936 and went to work for Twentieth Century Fox, they wrote most of Shirley Temple's songs. Bloom notes, "She [Temple] saved the studio while singing their [Revel's and Gordon's] songs" (p. 258).

• Stay as Sweet as You Are
• There's a Lull in My Life
• You Hit the Spot

Research Resources: Harry Revel

• Amazon
• 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): Harry Revel
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (recordings and albums featuring xxx songs)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Harry Revel article)
• 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. 415).
• David Ewen. American Songwriters
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (mini-biography of Revel and Gordon team in Hollywood plus scattered references).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 395-397).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, p. 238).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 617).
• Revel / Gordon montage: Ednay Arkspay
• Chet Baker, "There's a Lull in My Life": ami blue
• Shirley Temple, "An Old Straw Hat": sarahluvsshirley

Notes

• Ken Bloom, The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs , New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2005.
• Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? The Songs of Harry Revel & Mack Gordon
• Chet Baker: Embraceable You
• The Very Best of Shirley Temple

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