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

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Harry Warren

Academy Awards tribute to Warren with Gregory Hines and Debbie Allen singing and dancing to a medley of Warren songs including: Lullaby of Broadway/The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)/You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me/You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby/I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)/She's a Latin from Manhattan/I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)/Chattanooga Choo Choo/On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe/You'll Never Know/I'll String Along with You/Shuffle Off to Buffalo/Lulu's Back in Town/Jeepers Creepers/Nagasaki/There Will Never Be Another You/Forty-Second Street")

• An Affair To Remember
• At Last
• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Chattanooga Choo Choo
• Forty-Second Street
• The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the money)
• I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a five and ten cent store)
• I Had the Craziest Dream
• I Know Why (and so do you)
• I Only Have Eyes for You
• I'll String Along With You
• I'm An Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande
• I've Got To Sing A Torch Song
• Jeepers Creepers
• Lullaby of Broadway
• Lulu's Back in Town
• The More I See You
• My Heart Tells Me
• No Love, No Nothin'
• On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
• Remember My Forgotten Man
• September in the Rain
• Shadow Waltz
• Sweet and Slow
• There Will Never Be Another You
• This Heart of Mine
• This Is Always
• With Plenty of Money and You
• Would You Like to Take a Walk?
• You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
• You'll Never Know
• You're an Education
• You're Getting To Be a Habit with Me
• You're Just in Love
• You're My Everything

Research Resources: Harry Warren

• 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): Harry Warren
• Internet Broadway Database (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);
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• "A Tribute to Harry Warren" Blog by CJP (includes many YouTube clips of Warren songs and other pertinent information about the songwriter;
• HarryWarren.org (contains complete Warren songography, filmography, biography, etc.)
• Wikipedia article
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on # songs (p. sub-chapter on Warren plus multiple other references).
• Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters. New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008. (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)--chapter on Warren;
• Tony Thomas (with a forward by Bing Crosby). Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1975.
• 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. 529)
• Roy Hemming, The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie
  Musicals, New York: Newmarket Press, 1986 (chapter on Warren 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 (Warren entry, pp. 417-422).
• Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995 (extended commentary on the Warren song "There Will Never Be Another You").
• Gary Marmorstein. Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers 1900-1975. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997--many references to Warren.
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (multiple references to Harry Warren).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 521-523).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2000--chapter on Warren, Al Dubin and Mack Gordon.
• Allen Forte, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001 (multiple references to Warren songs).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 408-411 plus multiple other references).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (Warren entry--pp. 206-209).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (large number of references to Warren).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (sub-section on Warren plus 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 (chapter on Warren).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry--pp. 780-781).
• Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson. The Songs of Hollywood. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010--many references to Warren.
• Harry Warren: America's Greatest Composer: SherryBobbins1431
• Ian Whitcomb interview: Adam Swanson
• Academy Awards tribute videos: loafersguy
• Carol Burnett Show tribute videos: wickedfan1IDINA
• Peter Mintun videos: petermintunmusic

Notes

• Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer (a Vitaphone film short from 1933) cast and production details at IMDB

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