Victor Young, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
- Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
- (I don't stand) A Ghost of a Chance (with you)
- A Hundred Years from Today
- My Foolish Heart
- Stella by Starlight
- Street of Dreams
- When I Fall in Love
- Where Can I Go Without You?
- A Woman's Intuition
Research Resources: Victor Young
- AllMusic.com (overview, compositions, credits, etc.)
- Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
- Brandeis University (Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections: Victor Young Collection)
- 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): Victor Young
- 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)
- Wikipedia (name article)
- Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on three songs: "Sweet Sue," "A Ghost of a Chance," and "A Hundred Years from
Today." - 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)
- Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (sub-chapter on plus multiple references to Young. - Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 569-571).
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 446-447).
- 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 Young song "Stella by Starlight).
- David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (p. 185 includes commentary on several Young songs).
- Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 820).
- Victor Young: "The High and the Mighty": classicmoodexp
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