The American musical film song encyclopedia
By: Thomas S. Hischak.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
Subjects: Motion picture music -- United States -- Encyclopedias.; Songs, English -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
Genres: Encyclopedias.
Description: Following the successful The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews, in-depth, individual songs written for American musical films over the past seventy years. From Jolson to Elvis, operettas to rock musicals, Irving Berlin to the Beatles, the comprehensive scope of this work gathers over 1,800 songs from more than 500 musical films from 1927 through 1998.

In addition to detailing the songs' authors, original singers, and initial film appearances, the encyclopedia also explains how the songs were used in the film, lists subsequent film and stage appearances of the songs, and notes memorable recordings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-473) and index.