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

• Dinah
• A Hundred Years from Today
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
• I'm Sitting on Top of the World
• You're My Everything

Research Resources: Joe Young

• AllMusic.com (overview, credits)
• Amazon (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): Joe Young
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (name 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. 558).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (comments on two Young songs: pp. 84 "Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue" and 244 "Dinah.")
• Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995 (extended discussion of the Joe Young/Bernice Petkere song "Lullaby of the Leaves").
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (entry for Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis, pp. 41-48 overview plus lyrics to 13 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 pp. 565-569).
• David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 445-446).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry for Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis, pp. 242-254).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (discussion of the Joe Young song, "Dinah").
• Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (p. 80-81, entry for the Joe Young song "Dinah".

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