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

• Can't We Be Friends?
• Fine and Dandy

Research Resources: Kay Swift

• 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)
• The Independent (obituary -- UK newspaper)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In HarmonKay Swift
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (Fine and Dandy: The Kay Swift Songbook -- "allows singers and pianists to explore her music and perform it for new audiences" -- for download only)
• KaySwift.com (Biog. Discog; etc.)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• Wikipedia (name article)
• WildWomenOfSong.com (Biog., Suggested Listening)
• Yale University Library (The Kay Swift Papers (biog. sketch, description of papers, finding aid)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on 2 songs, "Can't We Be Friends" (p. 467) and Fine and Dandy" (p. 469) hard cover Ed.
• 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. 496)
• Roy Hemming, The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie
  Musicals, New York: Newmarket Press, 1986 (interesting note on Swift's contribution to the 1947 posthumous Gershwin scored film, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, p. 74).
• Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995 (in a chapter on women songwriters, extended comments on Swift).
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (multiple comments on Swift).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 488-489).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (within a section on women songwriters, comments on Swift).
• Allen Forte, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, p. 385).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (entry for "Fine and Dandy" pp. 85-86).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (one comment on why the authors like the late (1950) film song, "Once You Find Your Guy" (p. 184).
• Katherine Weber. George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacies of Infidelities. New York: Crown, 2011. Ben Brantley. "When Granny Met Gershwin, and Other Gossip." The New York Times. July 26, 2011 (book review of Kay Swift's Grandaughter's memoir cited above).
• See also biographies of and other works about George Gershwin.

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