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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?"
Jan 20, 2020 · With music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg, it’s become one of the most beloved songs in the history of American popular music. Yet a rainbow was never part of the screenplay for the...
As Broadway’s social commentator, and given his ability to “gild the philosophic pill” with witticisms and a lyric style all his own, Yip Harburg is a unique and major lyricist of 20th century American musical theatre. Yip Harburg died on March 5, 1981 at 84 years young.
Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz? “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”. — E. Y. “Yip” Harburg (Lyricist)
Aug 20, 2021 · YIP’S FAMILY INTERVIEWED. August 20, 2021 ypadmin. In August 2021 Molly Dubin, curator of the Jewish Museum, Milwaukee, interviewed Ernie Harburg (Yip’s son) and Deena Rosenberg Harburg (Yip’s daughter-in-law) for the podcast “Conversation Starter: Over the Rainbow with the Family of Lyricist Yip Harburg” on the occasion of the Museum ...
Apr 21, 2017 · E. Y. Harburg, the lyricist behind The Wizard of Oz, remains one of the most important songwriters blacklisted during the Cold War. His removal from Hollywood features in the 1950s denied moviegoers a distinct American voice whose lyrics mixed humor and entertainment to champion liberal causes.
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Sep 22, 1996 · PROFILE of lyricist Yip Harburg, whose work includes Broadway and Hollywood musical scores. Harburg, who died of a heart attack while driving in 1981, understood better than all his famous...
