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

• The Carioca
• Great Day!
• Hallelujah!
• I Know That You Know
• I Want ot Be Happy
• Keepin' Myself for You
• More Than You Know
• Rise 'n" Shine
• Should I Be Sweet?
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Tea for Two
• Through the Years
• Time On My Hands (and you in my arms)
• Why, Oh Why?
• Without a Song

Research Resources: Vincent Youmans

• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• American Songwriter (overview by Paul Zollo).
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers for Youmans)
• 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)
• Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (biography, back story, songs, 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)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (name article)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on # songs (sub-chapter on and multiple references to Youmans).
• Max Wilk, They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters (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), New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008 (Chapter on Youmans consisiting mostly of an interview with lyricist Edward Eliscu about his frequent collaborator).
• 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. 557).
• Gerald Bordman, Days To Be Happy, Years To Be Sad: The Life and Music of Vincent Youmans, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.
• 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. 446-450).
• Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (multiple references to Youmans).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (multiple references to Youmans in relation to his lyricists, especially Irving Caesar and their song "Tea for Two.")
• Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995 (extended discussion of the Youmans song "More Than You Know" plus fleeting references to other Youmans songs).
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (multiple references to Youmans).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 563-565).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (chapter on Youmans plus other refernces).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 442-445).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, pp. 308-309).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (discussions of songs by Youmans: "No, No Nanette" and "Time on My Hands").
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (p. ).
• 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 (paperback edition, 2008) -- multiple references to Youmans.
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 818).

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