Spencer Williams, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Research Resources: Spencer Williams
- AllMusic.com (overview, credits, compositions, etc.)
- Amazon (Spencer Williams 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 Spencer Williams)
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- The New York Times (obituary)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (Spencer Williams article)
- Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- brief comments on 2 Williams songs: "I Ain't Got Nobody" and "Everybody Loves My Baby."
- 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. 546)
- Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (scattered but significant comments on Williams).
- Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 548).
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 430-432).
- 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 Spencer Williams). - Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (extended commentary on the Spencer Williams song "I've Found a New Baby," pp. 208-210)
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