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Yip Harburg. Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (with Jay Gorney ), "April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the ...
Aug 2, 2021 · He is the man who brought the rainbow to The Wizard of Oz. Knowing Dorothy would sing a ballad yearning for escape from the monochrome farmland of her Kansas home in the film’s opening sequence ...
Nov 22, 2012 · ERNIE HARBURG: Yip’s career took a kind of detour, because when the war, World War I, came and Yip was a socialist and did not believe in the war, he took a boat down to Uruguay for three years ...
Jun 6, 2017 · Yip Harburg's son and biographer Ernie puts the success of the song down to one key word, as he told Democracy Now: "It's a story of a little girl that wants to get out. She’s in trouble, and ...
Dec 25, 2023 · Support our work: https://democracynow.org/giveHis name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a ...
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Yip’s Broadway classic is the witty and socially conscious Finian’s Rainbow (1947 music by Burton Lane; co-book by Fred Saidy). Yip was a “fellow who followed a dream.” He believed that all people should be guaranteed basic human rights, political equality, free education and economic opportunity – beliefs he personified through his actions and songs.
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Biography. E. Y. (Yip) Harburg (1896-1981), in a career spanning over fifty years, was known as “Broadway’s social conscience.”. A master lyricist, poet and book writer, Yip was always dedicated to social justice. He wrote the words to over 600 songs, most notably all the lyrics in the 1939 motion picture classic “ The Wizard of Oz ...
