Paul Francis Webster, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• Baltimore Oriole
• Black Coffee
• I Got it Bad (and that ain't good)
• The Shadow of Your Smile

Research Resources: Paul Francis Webster

• AllMusic.com (overview, credits, awards)
• 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): songwriter
• 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)
• Syracuse University Library (finding aids to the Paul Francis Webster papers)
• Wikipedia (Paul Francis Webster 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. 532).
• 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. 424-426).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (comments on Webster's lyrics for Ellington melodies pp. 260-262 paperback Ed.)
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (subsection on Webster pp. 369-372 plus scattered other comments).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 403-406 overview plus lyrics to eight songs). Read the introduction to this book at NYTimes.com.
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 529-531).
• Allen Forte, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001 ().
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. xx-xx).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, pp. xx-xx).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (comments on two Webster lyrics: "I Got it Bad" and "The Shadow of Your Smile").
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (comments on two Webster songs, especially "The Shadow of Your Smile" as movie theme song, p. 270).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, pp. 784-785).

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