Research Catalog

Betty Comden scores

Title: Betty Comden scores, 1938-1975.
Author: Comden, Betty.
Supplementary Content: Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

8 Items

Item details
Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 4	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 4	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 5	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 5	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 6	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 6	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 7	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 7	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 8	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-22 Box 8	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

Details

Additional Authors

Description

2 linear ft. (8 boxes)

Summary

The Betty Comden scores consist primarily of vocal scores for Broadway songs with lyrics by Comden and Green.

Uniform Title

Good news (Motion picture)
It's always fair weather (Motion picture)
What a way to go! (Motion picture)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Manuscripts.
Scores.

Source (note)

Comden, Betty.

Biography (note)

Betty Comden, part of the successful team of Comden and Green, collaborated as a lyricist from 1938 until the present.
Comden and Green wrote many screenplays including Good News (1947), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), On the Town (1949), Take Me out to the Ball Game (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), Auntie Mame (1958), Bells are Ringing (1960) and What a Way to Go!(1964).

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

JPB 03-22

OCLC

NYPT04-A5

Author

Comden, Betty.

Title

Betty Comden scores, 1938-1975.

Biography

Betty Comden, part of the successful team of Comden and Green, collaborated as a lyricist from 1938 until the present. Betty Comden was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from New York University, she began her career as a performer and writer in a cabaret act called The Revuers. Adolph Green was born in 1915 in the Bronx, New York. After a short career on Wall Street, Mr. Green joined The Revuers in 1938 and the Comden and Green team was formed. Comden and Green wrote the book and/or lyrics for such Broadway shows as On the Town (1944), Billion Dollar Baby (1945), Bonanza Bound (1947), Two on the Aisle (1951), Wonderful Town (1953), Peter Pan (1954), Bells are Ringing (1956), Say, Darling (1958), A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1958), Do Re Mi (1960), Subways are for Sleeping (1961), Fade Out-Fade In (1964), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), Applause (1970), Lorelei (1974), Straws in the Wind (1975), By Bernstein (1975), On the Twentieth Century (1977), A Doll's Life (1982), Singin' in the Rain (1985), and The Will Rogers Follies (1991).

Comden and Green wrote many screenplays including Good News (1947), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), On the Town (1949), Take Me out to the Ball Game (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), Auntie Mame (1958), Bells are Ringing (1960) and What a Way to Go!(1964). They have also written for television, radio, night clubs, and recordings. They have won numerous awards including Oscar nominations and Tony awards for Wonderful Town, Hallelujah, Baby!, Applause, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rogers Follies.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Finding Aid

Added Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. By Bernstein.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Exception and the rule.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. On the town.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. West Side story.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Wonderful town.

Chaplin, Saul, 1912-1997. Bonanza bound.

Frank, J. Revuers.

Gould, Morton, 1913-1996. Billion dollar baby.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Bells are ringing.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Do re mi.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Fade out, fade in.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Hallelujah, baby!

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Lorelei.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Peter Pan.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Say, darling.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Subways are for sleeping.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Two on the aisle.

Added Title

Good news (Motion picture)

It's always fair weather (Motion picture)

What a way to go! (Motion picture)

Research Call Number

JPB 03-22

View in Legacy Catalog