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

Overview and Commentary: Jule Styne

Jule Styne: "I don't sit at a piano and compose a song. I sit in my chair and I write a song. I hear the whole thing. After I've sketched it out, I go to the piano to hear what this thing I sat and wrote sounds like. I alter it then and make harmonic changes. The brain is like a comuter: what you put into it, it wil give you back."

Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs . New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005, p. 294.

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Jule Styne

• All I Need Is the Girl
• The Brooklyn Bridge
• Bye Bye Baby
• Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
• Everything's Coming Up Roses
• Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
• I Don't Want To Walk without You, Baby
• I Fall in Love Too Easily
• I'll Walk Alone
• It's Been a Long Time
• It's Magic
• I've Heard That Song Before
• Just in Time
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
• Make Someone Happy
• Music That Makes Me Happy
• The Party's Over
• People (who need people)
• Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night in the Week
• Small World (isn't it?)
• Sunday
• The Things We Did Last Summer
• Time after Time
• Together, Wherever We Go

Research Resources: Jule Styne

• Amazon (publications by and about, 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): Jule Styne.
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits);
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits).
• iTunes (songs, albums)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.).
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments).
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter).
• Jule Styne information website: (Shows, movies, songs, etc. by Styne).
• "The Official Jule Styne Website" (Bio; shows, films, TV, songs, photos, etc.).
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list).
• Todd Peaches Lyrics for Jule Styne (lyrics for Styne songs as sung by various artists).
• Wikipedia (Jule Styne article).
• Max Wilk, They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters (originally published 1973 as They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim—The Stories behind the Words and Music of Two Generations), New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008 (chapter on/interview with Styne, pp. 179-200, paperback Ed.).
• Theodore Taylor. Jule The Story of Composer Jule Styne. New York: Random House, 1979.
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry pp. 492-493).
• Roy Hemming, The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie
  Musicals, New York: Newmarket Press, 1986 (chapter on Styne, pp. 353-363, paperb ack Ed.).
• 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. 387-393).
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (scattered references to Styne).
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (extensive reference to and commentary on Styne).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 481-485).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (multiple and extended references to Styne).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 383-384).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, pp. 292-295).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (many references to Styne).
• 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 (multiple references to Styne).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 720).
• 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 Styne).
• 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 (several references to Styne).
• Remembering Jule Styne: www.cuny.tv

Notes

• Ken Bloom, The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs , New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2005.

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