Clarence Williams, songwriter: Reference Sources
Research Resources: Clarence Williams
- 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): Clarence Williams
- Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
- iTunes (recordings and albums featuring Clarence Williams)
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- RedHotJazz.com (overview and discography)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (Clarence Williams article)
- Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on one Wiliams song, "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home."
- 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. 544)
- Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (multiple references to Williams).
- The Oxford Companion to Jazz, Ed. by Bill Kirchner, Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press: 2000 (multiple comments on Williams).
- Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 544-545).
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 429-430).
- David A. Jasen and Gene Jones, Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters,
1880-1930, New York: Schirmer Books, 1998
(paperback edition, Routledge, 2005 shown (sub-chapter on and multiple other references to Clarence Williams). - Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (extended commentary on the Clarence Williams/Spencer Williams song "Royal Garden Blues")
Questions
What is Clarence Williams, songwriter?
Also read "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/b/baby_wont_you_please_come_home.html); "T'ain't Nobody's Business if I Do" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/t/taint_nobodys_business.html); Spencer Williams, songwriter (htt
How should Clarence Williams, songwriter be cited?
Cite this page as "Clarence Williams, songwriter: Reference Sources," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/w_sws/williams_clarence.html
Which Cafe Songbook pages are related?
Also read "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/b/baby_wont_you_please_come_home.html); "T'ain't Nobody's Business if I Do" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/t/taint_nobodys_business.html); Spencer Williams, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/w_sws/williams_spencer.html); Alec Wilder, songwriter (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/w_sws/wilder_alec.html).
Cite this page: Clarence Williams, songwriter: Reference Sources, Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songwriters/w_sws/williams_clarence.html