DeadLists Project Song Names
Source Material & ReferencesThe following resources have been used whilst compiling the Deadlists Project song information or are suggested as further sources of information about the songs, composers and performers mentioned therein.
Only books and web sites are included below. A third type of resource, LP/CD sleeve notes & labels, has been invaluable.
The list in in two parts. The first includes general reference and other material. The second alphabetic section includes material specific to particular performers, song writers, songs or musical genres.
Web sites come and web sites go. The web site addresses listed below existed at the time the research was underway.
General
Book
American Song : The Complete Musical Theatre Companion 1877-1995
Ken Bloom,
Schirmer Books 1996 (2nd Edition)
Vol 1 (A-S):
ISBN 0028704843
Vol 2 (T-Z & Indexes):
ISBN 0028645723
Black White and Blue
Tony Russell
Studio Vista Ltd
ISBN 289.79832.92
Broadside - Songs of Our Times from the Pages of Broadside Magazine, Volume 1
Oak Publications 1964
L of C Catalogue Card # 64-66370
Encyclopedia of Hits - The 1960's
Davis McAleer
Blandford 1996
ISBN 0-7137-2609-1
Halliwell Film Guide 7th Edition,
Palladin Grafton Books,1989,
ISBN 0-586-08894-6
Last Train To Memphis - The Rise Of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick
Abacus 1995
ISBN 0 349 10651 7
Mystery Train,
Greil Marcus
4th Ed, Penguin Books 1991
ISBN 0 14 01.4720 9
The Oxford Dictionary Of Nursery Rhyme,
Ed. Iona & Peter Opie
Oxford University Press 1958
Popular Music : An Annotated Index Of American Popular Song
Ed. Nat Shapiro,
Adrian Press, 1965-73
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-23761
Vol 1. 1950-59
Vol 2. 1940-49
Vol 3. 1960-64
Vol 4. 1930-39
Vol 5. 1920-29
Vol 6. 1965-69
RED MusicMaster 7th Edition,
RED Publishing Ltd,
ISBN 1 900105 04 7The Rockin' 50's
Arnold Shaw
Da Capo Press, 1987
ISBN 0-306-80301-1
Tracks 4th Edition,
Music Master,
ISBN 0 904520 73 0
Who Sang What In Rock'n'Roll,
Alan Warner,
Blandford, 1990,
ISBN 0-7137-2089-1
Web
All-Music-Guide
http://205.186.189.2/amg/music_Root.html
ASCAP - ACE on the Web
http://www.ascap.com/ace/ace.html
BMI Music Repertory Database
http://bmi.com/repertoire/
Both Sides Now - Discographies
http://www.bsnpubs.com/discog.html
Cdnow - Internet music store
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=
National Music Publishers Association WebPages
http://www.nmpa.org
PDinfo - Music In The Public Domain
http://ne1.bright.net/pdinfo/pdm2/
Yahoo Music Index
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/
Allman Brothers Band
Web
Hitting The Web With the ABB
http://www.netspace.org/allmans/
Official Site
http://www.epiccenter.com/EpicCenter/docs/artistupdate.qry?artistid=6
ABB Listserv Home Page
http://www.kardworx.com/abblist/
Baez, Joan
Web
Joan Baez Official Web Site
http://baez.woz.org/
Folk Book Index for Joan Baez
http://www.execpc.com/~henkle/fbindex/b/baez_joan.html
Joan Baez/Dylan Pages
http://www.yi.com/home/HelfertManfred/baez.htm
Richard L. Hess's Joan Baez Web Pages
http://www.mindspring.com/~rlhess/music/joan000.htm
Band, The
Web
Jan Hoiberg's WWW Page On The Band
http://www-ia.hiof.no/~janh/TheBand.html
Beach Boys
Web
Beach Boys page with sessionography and discography
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d416bb/bb/index.html
Web Page for Brian Wilson
http://www.cabinessence.com/brian/
Beatles
Book
The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia
Bill Harry
Virgin Books 1992
ISBN 0 86369 681 3
Web
There are many web sites with information about the Beatles. The Yahoo or Ultimate Band List index pages are probably the best place to start.
Yahoo Beatles Index
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Rock_and_Pop/Beatles_The/
Belafonte, Harry
Web
Harry Belafonte Discography
http://w1.844.telia.com/~u84405227/harry.htm#bm1248
Berry, Chuck
Web
The Chuck Berry Home Page
http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~mauricef/frame9.htm
Chuck Berry Page
http://www2.colgate.edu/diw/pegg/chuck.html
Blues
Book
Blackwell Guide To Blues Records,
Ed. Pauls Oliver
Basil Blackwell Ltd 1989,
ISBN 0-631-16516-9
Blues of the Record
Paul Oliver
The Baton Press 1984
ISBN 0 85936 153 5
Crying For The Carolines
Bruce Bastin
Studio Vista Ltd 1971
ISBN 289.70210.0
Nothing But The Blues
Lawrence Cohn et al
Abbeville Press 1993
ISBN 1-55859-271-7
The History Of The Blues - The Roots, The Music, The People From Charley Patton To Robert Cray
Francis Davis,
Secker & Warburg 1995
ISBN 0 436 20185 2
Web
The Blue Flame Cafe
http://www.surfin.com/TheBlueFlameCafe/
The Blue Highway
http://thebluehighway.com/
Bluegrass
Book
Bluegrass : An Informal Guide
Richard D Smith
a cappella books 1995
ISBN 1-55652-240-1
Bluegrass Breakdown
Robert Cantwell
De Capo Press 1992
ISBN 0-306-80495-6
Byrds
Web
Byrd's Nest
http://www.waxing-eloquent.com/byrds/
Byrdwatcher - A Field Guide to the Byrds of Los Angeles
http://ebni.com/byrds/
Jonathan's Byrd's Page
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/2522/byrds.html
Leroy Carr
Web
Leroy Carr page
http://www.io.com/~tbone1/blues/bios/carr.html
Cash, Johnny
Web
The Official Johnny Cash Site
http://www.johnnycash.com
Dr. Mellow's Johnny Cash Page
http://mh004.infi.net/~drmellow/country/artists/cash/
Another Johnny Cash Site
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~sjfische/Cash.html
Cotten, Elizabeth
Web
Biographical Information - Elizabeth Cotton
http://cvrc.med.upenn.edu/~greenberg/bi-cott1.html
Libba Cotton
http://www.surfin.com/TheBlueFlameCafe/Libba_Cotten.html
Remembering Elizabeth Cotton
http://www2.polarnet.com/~eclectic/v1n1/nonfiction/demerlee.html
Country Music
Book
The Billboard Book Of Number One Country Hits
Tom Roland
Guiness Publishing Ltd 1991
ISBN 0-85112-987-0
Blackwell Guide To Country Recordings,
Ed. Bob Allen
Basil Blackwell Ltd 1992,
ISBN 0-631-19106-2
Country
Nick Tosches
Charles Scribner's Sons 1985
ISBN 0-684-18395-5
Country Music Recorded Prior To 1943 - A Discography Of LP Reissues
Compiled by Willie Smyth, Preface by Norm Cohen
JEMF Special Series No. 14
The John Edwards Memorial Forum
In The Country Of Country,
Nicholas Dawidoff,
Faber & Faber, 1997,
ISBN 0-571-19174-6
Web
Cowpie songs
http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/cowpie-songs/
Great American Country Home Page
http://www.countrystars.com/index.html
Roughstock's History Of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/index.html
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Web
The Dutch CCR Tribute Page
http://www.cybercomm.nl/~wdwbest/jfmain.htm
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Web
CSN Website
http://www.alpha.nl/CSN/
Crowell, Rodney
Web
The Rodney Crowell Web Site
http://it.stlawu.edu/~mdoyle/rodney/rodney.html
Davis, Miles
Book
Miles Davis - A Critical Biography,
Ian Carr,
Quartet Books,
ISBN 0-7043-2273-0
Diddley, Bo
Book
Bo Diddley : Living Legend,
George White
Castle Communication
ISBN 1 86074 130 4
The Complete Bo Diddley Sessions
George R White
George R White Publications 1993
ISBN 0 9519888 0 8
Web
BO DIDDLEY - The Originator
http://originator_2.tripod.com/
Dixon, Willie
Book
I Am The Blue : The Willie Dixon Story,
Willie Dixon with Don Snowden,
Quartet Books,
ISBN 0 7043 2707 4
Donovan
Web
Donovan - Open Road
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d416bb/don/index.html
Dylan, Bob
Book
Bob Dylan
Anthony Scaduto
Helter Skelter Publishing 1996
ISBN 1-900924-00-5
Dylan Behind Closed Doors, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994,
Clinton Heylin
Penguin Books 1996,
ISBN 0-14-025749-7
Invisible Republic - Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes,
Greil Marcus,
Picador, London, 1997,
ISBN 0 330 33623
Web
As with the Beatles there are many web sites with information about the Bob Dylan. The Yahoo or Ultimate Band List index pages are probably the best place to start.
Yahoo Dylan Index
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Rock_and_Pop/Dylan_Bob/
Roots, Routes and Ramblings
http://www.yi.com/home/HelferManfred/index.htm
Everly Brothers
Book
Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back
Roger White
Plexus Publishing Ltd 1984
ISBN 0-85965-099-5
Web
Peter Aarts Everly Brothers Page
http:/home.pi.net/~paats/padisco.html
The Everly Brothers International Home Page
http://www.xs4all.nl/~owjasonb/
Funiculi Funicula / Luigi Denza
Web
Virtual Museum of Neapolitan Song (song lyrics)
http://www.intecs.it/net/virtual.museum/it_home.htm
PlanetItaly : Culture- Song - Neapolitan
http://www.planetitaly.com/culture/song/neapolitan.html
Gaye, Marvin
Book
Divided Soul : The Life Of Marvin Gaye
David Ritz,
Omnibus Press 1991,
ISBN 0.7119.4895.X
Web
What's Going On
http://members.tripod.com/~sledgewich/marvin.htm
Tribute To Marvin Gay
http://www.calvin.edu/~cdykho15/marvin.html
Grateful Dead
Book
Box Of Rain : Lyrics 1965-1993,
Robert Hunter
Penguin Books 1993,
ISBN 0 14 01.3451 4
DeadBase IX, The Complete Guide To Grateful Dead Song Lists,
Scott, JW, Dolgushkin, M and Nixon, S,
DeadBase 1995
ISBN 1-877657-18-2
Garcia
The Editors of Rolling Stone
Little, Brown and Company 1995
ISBN 0-316-87963-0
Goin' Down The Road : A Grateful Dead Travelling Companion,
Blair Jackson,
Harmony Books 1992
ISBN 0-517-58337-2
The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads - An Annotated Bibliography
David G Dodd and Robert G Weiner
Greenwood Press
1997
ISBN 0-313-30141-7
Web
Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
http://www.uccs.edu/~ddodd/gdhome.html
Grateful Dead Song And Lyric Finder
http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/intro.htm
Roots of The Grateful Dead
http://www.taco.com/roots/
Guthrie, Woody
Book
Woody Guthrie, A Life
Joe Klein,
Ballantine Books 1982
Web
The Woody Guthrie Pages
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~davida/woody.html
Haggard, Merle
Web
Country Music's Living Legend...Merle Haggard
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/1510/
Merle Haggard Official WebSite
http://www.TheHag.com/
Hawkins, Dale
Web
Dale Hawkins Page
http://tdm.net/dale/
Holly, Buddy
Book
Rembering Buddy,
John Goldrosen and John Beecher
Omnibus Press, 1987,
ISBN 0.7119.5702.9
Web
The (Completely) Unauthorized Buddy Holly Discography
Rave On - Unofficial Buddy Holly Page
http://206.151.68.40/kdwilt/
Hopkins, Lightnin'
Web
Lightnin' Hopkins entry at Blue Flame Cafe
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Lightnin_Hopkins.html
Jefferson Airplane
Web
Jefferson Airplane Home Page
http://grove.ufl.edu/~number6/Jefferson.Airplane/airplane.html
Johnson, Robert
Book
Searching for Robert Johnson
Peter Guralnick
Secker & Warburg, 1990
ISBN 0436199998
Web
Blue Flame Cafe entry
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Robert_Johnson.html
The Robert Johnson Notebooks
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSIC/rjhome.html
Robert Johnson RealAudio
http://members.xoom.com/gooberpyle/Blues.html
Jones, George
Web
The Official George Jones Country Home Page
http://iwshome.com/possum/
King, B. B.
Web
The King Of The Blues Home Page
http://prairie.lakes.com/~jkerekes/
Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter)
Web
The Leadbelly Web
http://cycad.com/cgi-bin/Leadbelly/index.html
Leiber/Stoller - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Web
The Legacy of Leiber and Stoller
http://www.there1.com/leiber.html
Little Richard
Web
Little Richard News
http://home.kolumbus.fi/timrei/lre.htm
Loretta Lynn
Web
The Loretta Lynn Page
http://www.ols.net/~cass/Loretta.html
Louie Louie
Web
The Louie Louie Page
http://www.via.nl/users/tdg/louie1.html
The Louie Report
http://www.netuser.com/~erp/louie_louie.html
Monroe, Bill
Book
Bluegrass 1950-1955 Bill Monroe
Charles K Wolfe & Neil V Rosenberg
Bear Family Publications 1989
Morrison, Van
Book
Van Morrison : Too Late To Stop Now,
Steve Turner
Viking Penguin 1993
ISBN 0-670-85147-7
Web
Van Morrison Home Page
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/van.html
New Orleans/Neville Brothers & Related Sites
Web
New Orleans Music News / Louisiana Music Archive
http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/nomusic.html
The Unofficial Neville Brothers WebPage
http://www.his.com/~georgeg/neville.html
Neville Web: The Official Neville Brothers Home Page
http://www.nevilles.com/home.html
ikoiko.com - A Subterranean Guide To New Orleans Music
http://www.ikoiko.com/
Owens, Buck
Web
Buck Owens Unofficial Home \Page
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5040/home.htm
Quicksilver Messenger Service/John Cippolina
Web
Shady Grove - Quicksilver Messenger Service
http://www.penncen.com/quicksilver/
John Cippolina
http://www.trope.com/cipollina/
Reed, Jimmy
Web
Jimmy Reed Blue Flame Cafe entry
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Jimmy_Reed.html
Robbins, Marty
Web
Kristy's Marty Robbins Page (with excellent discography)
http://members.aol.com/kkcowgirl/mrobbins.htm
Unofficial Marty Robbins Page
http://www.albany.net/~coollz/marty.htm
Rodgers, Jimmie
Book
Jimmie Rodgers
Nolan Porterfield
University Of Illinois Press 1992
ISBN 0-252-06268-X
Simon, Paul
Web
The Unofficial Paul Simon Web Site
http://www.best.com/~rlai/Paul-Simon/index.shtml
Simon & Garfunkel Page
http://www3.mistral.co.uk/rkent/
Soul Music
Book
Blackwell Guide To Soul Recordings,
Ed. Robert Pruter
Basil Blackwell Ltd 1993,
ISBN 0-631-18595-X
Traditional/Folk/Old Time Music
Book
American Ballads & Folk Songs
John A Lomax & Alan Lomax
Dover Publications 1994
(Orig. published 1934)
ISBN 0-486-28276-7
American Folk Tales & Songs
Compiled by Robert Chase
Dover Publications Inc 1971
ISBN 0-486-22692-1
Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads &c
Collected by David Herd 1776
Scottish Academic Press 1972
ISBN 0 7011 1970 5
A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong
Charles Hayward, Constable & Co., 1961
Vol 1
ISBN 0-486-20797-8
Vol 2
ISBN 0-486-20798-6
Carry It On
Pete Seeger & Bob Reisner
Blandford Press 1986
ISBN 0 7137 1854 4
English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians Collected by Cecil Sharp,
Ed. Maud Karpelis
Oxford University Press 1966
English Folk Songs, Selected Edition
Cecil J. Sharp
Novello And Company Ltd 1959
Folk Music in Britain, Ireland and the USA
Clive D. Griffin
Dryad Press Ltd, London
1989
ISBN 0 8521 9795 0
Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughn Williams
Ed. Roy Palmer
JM Dent 1983
ISBN 0 460 04558 X
Gennett Records of Old Time Tunes - A Catalog Reprint
The John Edwards Memorial Foundation at the Folklore & Mythology Center
University of California, Los Angeles, 197?
Old Time String Band Songbook,
Eds. Mike Seeger, John Cohen, Holly Wood Stephenson,
Oak Publications 1976
ISBN 0-8256-0179-7
(Originally published as The New Lost City Ramblers Songbook1964)
Ozark Folksongs
Vance Randolph
Edited & Abridged by Norm Cohen
University Of Illinois Press 1982
ISBN 0-252-00952-5
Southern Mountain Folksongs
Compiled & edited by W. K. McNeil
August House Publishers Ltd 1993
ISBN 0-87483-285-3
The Traditional Tunes Of The Child Ballads, Vol II
Bertrand Harris Bronson
Princeton University Press, 1962
LC Card 57-5468
Travellers' Songs From England & Scotland
Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger
Routledge & Keegan Paul 1977
ISBN 0-7100-8436-6
Web
The Digital Traditions Folksong Database
http://www.deltablues.com/folksearch.html
Folk Music : An Index To Recorded Resources
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
http://Milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/folkindex/
Folkbook - An Online Acoustic Music Establishment
http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/folkbook/
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
http://www.si.edu/folklife/folkways/The Traditional Ballad Index
Robert B. Waltz & David G. Engle
http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexTOC.html
Traffic / Spencer Davis Group / Steve Winwood
Book
Winwood : Keep On Running, The Steve Winwood Story,
Chris Welch with Steve Winwood,
Omnibus Press 1989,
ISBN 0.7119.1468.0
Web
Spencer Davis Group Page
http://www.webcom.com/gsmmedia/spencer/
TV Themes
Web
Unofficial Addams Family WebSite
http://www.addamsfamily.com/index.html
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
http://www.primenet.com/~mwc/tvhitch.html
The Fifth Dimesion (The Twilight Zone Home Page)
http://www.simplenet.com/contents.html
Waters, Muddy
Web
Muddy Waters Blue Flame Cafe entry
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Muddy_Waters.html
Watson, Doc
Web
Ballads From Deep Gap
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/index/html
Doc Watson On The Web
http://www.greensboro.com/nronline/projects/link.html
Doc Watson - American Folk Muisc Legend
http://sunsite.unc.edu/doug/DocWat/DWCover.html
MerleFest Home Page
http://www.merlefest.org/
Williams, Hank
Book
Hank Williams - The Biography
Colin Escott, with George Merritt and William MacEwan
Little, Brown & Company 1994
ISBN 0-316-24986
Web
Hank Williams Sr Page
http://www.cmgww.com/music/hank/hank.html
Williamson, Sonny Boy (I)
Web
Blues Web - Sonny Boy Williamson I
http://www.island.net/~blues/johnlee.html
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson
http://home.t-online.de/home/w-lorenz/
Williamson, Sonny Boy (II) (aka Rice Miller)
Web
Sonny Boy Williamson II Page
http://www.sonnyboy.com/
Wolf, Howlin'
Web
Bull Cow Moanin' At Midnight - A Tribute To Howlin' Wolf
http://www.novia.net/~cedmunds/
Howlin' Wolf Blue Flame Cafe entry
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Howlin_Wolf.html
Howlin' Wolf page with sessionography and discography
http://nicom.com/~machare/wolf/
Zevon, Warren
Web
Warren Zevon Page
http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/Morris.Ashley/zevon.html
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