AMG: Vocal Music Overview of the genre, essay, key artists and albums, and recent releases. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=F0VOCAL

American Popular Song From paper presented by Howard S. Becker at a 1994 conference discussing the structure of the standard popular song along with its history, songwriters, musicians, and singers. Bibliography. http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/hbecker/pops.html

American Popular Song Message board and directories of singers, songwriters, movies, and shows. http://www.americanpopularsong.com/

Craig's BigBands and BigNames Historic reviews and photos from performers of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Includes old time radio broadcast, quiz, and message board. http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/

Ian Whitcomb's Literary Corner Includes articles on Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and the first crooners. http://www.picklehead.com/ian/literary.htm

JD Hay's Crooners Library of songs in WAV format, including those by several pop artists and a 1950s collection. http://www.angelfire.com/retro2/croonerjd/index.html

Parlor Songs Collection of popular and classical sheet music from the 1800's to the 1940's, cover art, audio samples, composer biographies, and articles on the history, styles, and themes. http://parlorsongs.com/index.asp

Golden Age of American Popular Song List of writers and performers from 1900-1950; bibliography; links. http://www.freehomepages.com/lnyce

Jukebox: American Popular Music in the 1930s Includes 40 audio files, with background and commentary. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/Jukebox/front.html

Wikipedia: Melodic Music Defines "melodic" genre as the vocal-oriented popular American music style that came after big band music but before rock and roll, as exemplified by singers like Perry Como and Margaret Whiting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre#Melodic_music

Topix.net: Vocal News about vocal, collected from various sources on the web. http://rss.topix.net/rss/music/vocal.xml

Operamom Web Community Support group for professional singers (opera or otherwise) with children: message board, chat, articles, links. http://operamom.com/