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.
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: 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 ››
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.