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

• Alone Together
• By Myself
• Dancing in the Dark
• Haunted Heart
• How Sweet You Are
• I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
• I See Your Face before Me
• If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
• Make the Man Love Me
• New Sun in the Sky
• Rhode Island Is Famous for You
• Shine on Your Shoes
• Something To Remember You By
• Something You Never Had Before
• That's Entertainment
• Then I'll Be Tired of You
• They're Either Too Old or Too Young
• Through a Thousand Dreams
• You and the Night and the Music

Research Resources: Arthur Schwartz

• 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): Arthur Schwartz
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• SecondHandSongs.com (song list plus discography of covers in chronological order)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Turner Classic Movies: Arthur Schwartz page
• Wikipedia (Arthur Schwartz article)
• YouTube (The Arthur Schwartz Songbook -- playlist including 69 music videos of Arthur Schwartz songs performed by various artists)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on # songs (subchapter on Schwartz plus multiple other references).
• Howard Dietz. Dancing in the Dark An Autobiography. New York: Quadrangle, 1974 (Schwartz's chief writing partner writes extensively him.
• 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. 450).
• Roy Hemming, The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie
  Musicals, New York: Newmarket Press, 1986 (chapter on Schwartz in Hollywood plus multiple other references).
• 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. 347-354).
• Gerald Mast. Can't Help Singin' The American Musical on Stage and Screen. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1987 (multiple references to Schwartz).
• Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995 (extensive discussion of Schwartz plus multiple short references).
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (a discussion of and multiple references to Schwartz in Hollywood).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 437-440).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (brief chapter on Schwartz and Dietz plus multiple references to Schwartz).
• Allen Forte, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001 (references to or discussions of the music of several Schwartz songs).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, pp. 296-298 plus other references).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (multiple refernces to and discussions of Schartz songs).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (subchapter on Schwartz plus multiple other references).
• Wilfred Sheed, The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, New York: Random House, 2007 (paperback edition, 2008) -- discussion of plus multiple references to Schwartz)
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 661).
• Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 2010 (multiple references to Schwartz).
• Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, New York: Alfred A Knoph, 2011 (one brief reference to Schwartz, but a good one).

Arthur Schwartz photo by Car Van Vechten: Library of Congress/Wikepedia Commons, Public Domain

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