Martin Gottfried
Martin Gottfried. Broadway Musicals. NY: H.N. Abrams, 1979.
Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish
Jack Gottlieb. Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood. State University of New York in Association with the Library of Congress, 2004.
Mark N. Grant. The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical
Mark N. Grant. The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical. Northeastern University Press, 2004. Contains extensive passages about Yip as auteur.
Stanley Green.Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930’s
Stanley Green. Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930's. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971.
Stanley Green.The World of Musical Comedy, 4 th ed
Stanley Green. The World of Musical Comedy, 4 th ed. San Diego and NY: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1980. Chapter 14: "E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane," p. 173.
Mark Griffin. A Hundred or More Hidden Things
Mark Griffin. A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli. DaCapo Press, 2010. Contains several passages about Yip's professional and personal ties to Minnelli beginning in the early 1930s when Minnelli was designing sets for Broadway musical revues, and continuing through Hooray for What! in 1937 and Cabin in the … Continue Reading ››
Aljean Harmetz.The Making of the Wizard of Oz
Aljean Harmetz. The Making of the Wizard of Oz. New York: Knopf, 1977. 2nd edition, NY: Hyperion, 1998.
Stephen Holden. “The Lyrics of Yip Harburg” in The Yip Harburg Songbook
Stephen Holden. "The Lyrics of Yip Harburg" in The Yip Harburg Songbook. Miami: CPP-Belwin, 1994. Includes 44 major songs. Also in the 2009 reissue by Hal Leonard Music Publishers.
Sam Irvin.Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise
Sam Irvin. Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise. This biography of the "entertainer and world-class eccentric" contains several pages about the subject's experiences in the pre-Broadway phase of the 1937 Harburg-Arlen musical Hooray for What! NY: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Edward Jablonski. The Encyclopedia of American Music
Edward Jablonski. The Encyclopedia of American Music. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.