“Bad Girls.” Donna Summer, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano, and Joe “Bean” Esposito. Starrin Music Publishing Corp./Sweet Summer Night Music (BMI), 1979.
Bad Girls
, Casablanca Records and Filmworks, Inc.
“God Bless the Child.” Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.
Billie Holiday’s Greatest Hits
, Decca Records.
“Living for the City.” Stevie Wonder. Stein and Van Stock lnc., and Black Bull Music Inc., 1973. Inner Visions, Tamala Records.
“Native New Yorker.” Sandy Linzer and Denny Hendell. Featherbed Music Co. and Desiderata Music Co., 1977.
Odyssey
, RCA.
“Pieces of a Man.” Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Bob Thiele Music, Ltd. ASCAP.
Pieces of a Man
, Flying Dutchman Records.
“Play It Cool.” Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. United Artists.
West Side Story
, Columbia Records.
“A Poem on the Underground Wall.” Paul Simon. BMI.
Parsley
,
Sage
,
Rosemary
,
and Thyme
, Columbia Records.
“The Sounds of Silence.” Paul Simon. BMI.
The Sounds of Silence
, Columbia Records, 1965.
“Strange Fruit.” Allan. Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, BMI.
The Best of Billie Holiday
, MGM Records, Inc., 1972.
“The Stranger.” Billy Joel. Joel songs.
The Stranger
, CBS Inc. Columbia Records, 1977.
Note
An album of the Broadway choreopoem
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf
is available and is an excellent way to augment use of the written version. The albums of the poet Nikki Giovanni which use gospel music for a background to poetry readings are also good supplements.