Stephen Banfield
Stephen Banfield. Jerome Kern. Yale Broadway Masters Series. Yale University Press, 2006. Contains a section about the songs Yip wrote with Kern for the 1944 motion picture Can't Help Singing.
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Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnick
Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnick. Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time. NY: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004.
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin. Song by Song: 14 Great Lyric Writers. England: Ross Anderson Publications, 1984. Chapter 8: "E.Y. Harburg: Somewhere Over the Rainbow," p. 118.
Contemporary Authors, vols. 85-88
Contemporary Authors, vols. 85-88. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980.
Current Biography
Current Biography, 1980. NY: H.W. Wilson.
Lehman Engel
Lehman Engel. Their Words Are Music: The Great Theatre Lyricists and Their Lyrics. NY: Crown, 1975.
David Ewen
David Ewen. Great Men of American Popular Song. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Caryl Flinn
Caryl Flinn. Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. University of California Press, 2007. Provides details about the Paramount-Astoria film shorts in which Merman sang songs with lyrics by Yip
ohn Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman
John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman. The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History. Introduction by Jack Haley, Jr. Warner, 1989.
Will Friedwald. Stardust Memories: A Biography of Twelve of America’s Most Popular Songs
Will Friedwald. Stardust Memories: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs. NY: Pantheon, 2002. Includes a chapter (p. 142) that describes how Yip helped composer Johnny Green and lyricist Edward Heymann create the lyric to their classic, "Body and Soul."