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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 31, 1997 · Yip Harburg, Lyricist. Best known for writing the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz, Yip also wrote the musical Bloomer Girl, which was about women’s suffrage, and Finian’s Rainbow, which dealt with...
Jan 20, 2020 · It was entirely the concoction of Yip. 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...
Jun 6, 2017 · And that's partly because the duo who wrote it - composer Harold Arlen and lyricist Yip Harburg - had known some fairly hard times themselves.
Oct 11, 2016 · It shows the introduction of the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,” by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney by the singer (Rex Weber) and Men (the male dance chorus from the Charles Weidman Company).
Apr 8, 2016 · Harburg is best remembered for his collaboration on 111 songs with Harold Arlen, including those for The wizard of Oz. This according to “The lemon-drop kid” by John Lahr (The New Yorker LXXII/29 [30 September 1996] pp. 68–74). Today is Harburg’s 120th birthday! Below, Pete Seeger sings Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Hurry Sundown" is a 1966 song written by Yip Harburg and Earl Robinson, and first recorded by the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. The song was commissioned by the director Otto Preminger , who wanted a theme song for his 1967 film Hurry Sundown .
