Edward Jablonski. The Encyclopedia of American Music
Edward Jablonski. The Encyclopedia of American Music. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.
Edward Jablonski. Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues
Edward Jablonski. Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
David Jenness and Don Velsey
David Jenness and Don Velsey. Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000. NY: Routledge, 2006. Contains commentary on several of Yip's lesser-known lyrics.
Justin Kaplan, General Editor
Justin Kaplan, General Editor. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 16th Edition. Little, Brown & Company, 1992, p. 699.
Herbert Keyser.Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists
Herbert Keyser. Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists. Applause Books, 2009. Contains a beautifully illustrated chapter on Yip.
Richard Koszarski. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
Richard Koszarski. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff, Rutgers University Press, 2008. Several passages of this thorough history discuss Yip's little-known lyric writing stint at Paramount's Long Island Astoria Studios from 1929 through the early 1930's.
John Lahr.Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr
John Lahr. Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr. NY: Knopf, 1969.
John Lahr. The Lemon-Drop Kid
John Lahr. "The Lemon-Drop Kid" in The New Yorker. Sept. 30, 1996. Reprinted in Honky Tonk Parade, Overlook Press, 2005.
Ethan Mordden.Broadway Babies
Ethan Mordden. Broadway Babies. NY: Oxford University Press, 1983.
America’s Songs II
Michael Lasser. America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Postwar Years. Routledge, 2013. The second volume in the series, containing material on "Buds Won't Bud," "Down with Love," "Last Night When We Were Young," "In the Shade of the New Apple Tree" and "Fun to Be Fooled," the latter lyric written with Ira … Continue Reading ››