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Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Over the Rainbow.
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Harburg and Gorney
Gershwin introduced Harburg to Jay Gorney, who collaborated with him on songs for an Earl Carroll Broadway review ( Earl Carroll's Sketchbook ): the show was successful and Harburg was engaged as lyricist for a series of successful revues, including Americana in 1932, for which he wrote the lyrics of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Harburg and were
In 1932 the districts of Winsen and Harburg were merged ; the City of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg ( which had been merged in 1927 ) became the capital of the district, although it remained district-free and hence was not a part of the district.
The complex lyrics written by Yip Harburg with clever rhymes such as Lydia / encyclopedia were inspired by W. S. Gilbert.
" Yip " Harburg, but Sumac's three numbers were the work of Vivanco with one co-written by Vivanco and Fain.
Unlike many other German castles which were built in the last 200 years or rebuilt after World War II, Harburg castle retains the feel of the Middle Ages.
From 1603 to 1616 a relative of the prince, the Dowager-Duchess Hedwig in Harburg had various witches " burned on the high hill in Moisburg following rigorous investigations and ordeal by water " These were some of the last witches ' trials in what is now Lower Saxony.
As a mark of special favor, court Jews or mint-farmers were exempt from the payment of such tolls ( see Harburg ).
Harburg and contract
He moved to California and accepted a contract with Paramount for $ 1, 000 a week, joining other famous songwriters working for the Hollywood studios, including Harry Warren ( Warners ), E. Y. Harburg ( MGM ), Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin at Paramount.
Harburg and with
He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.
Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers.
" From about 1951 to 1962, Yip Harburg was a victim of the Hollywood blacklist when movie studio bosses blacklisted industry people for actual or suspected involvement or sympathy with the American Communist Party.
Following the Greater Hamburg Act Harburg, together with other cities such as Altona, was incorporated into the city of Hamburg.
In this role, he is best known as the credited writer or co-writer of the lyrics to " Me and My Shadow ", " Great Day " ( with Edward Eliscu ), " Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight " ( with Marty Bloom ), " I Found a Million Dollar Baby " ( with Mort Dixon ) and " It's Only a Paper Moon " ( with E. Y. Harburg ).
During the malaise of the 1970s stagflation, the New York Times asked Harburg to update " Brother " for a new age, and he responded with:
Harburg " Over the Rainbow ", " It's Only a Paper Moon "; with Ted Koehler " Stormy Weather ", " I've Got the World on a String ", " I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues ", " Let's Fall in Love "); with Johnny Mercer (" Blues in the Night ", " That Old Black Magic ", " One for My Baby ", " Come Rain or Come Shine ", " Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive "; and with Ira Gershwin " The Man that Got Away ")
Harburg and Hollywood
Yip Harburg died on March 5, 1981 in an automobile accident on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood .< ref >
Harburg and worked
He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.
Harburg and composers
In 1938, composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. Harburg ( composers of " Over the Rainbow " and many other hits ) wrote the song " God's Country ", for the finale of the MGM musical Babes in Arms, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
Harburg and Harold
In spite of the 1962 animated feature Gay Purr-ee ( distributed by Warner Bros .), which featured the voices of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet and a Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg song score, and the beloved animated special Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, UPA was shut down in 1964.
In the Broadway-theatre musical Jamaica ( 1957 ), Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg cleverly parodied " commercial ", Belafonte-style calypso.
* May 7 — Lyricist Edgar Yipsel Harburg and composer, Harold Arlen, begin work on the musical score for The Wizard of Oz.
The Bobolink is also mentioned in the song Evelina by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, from the musical Bloomer Girl:
" The Wreck of the Hesperus " is also referenced in the comic song " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ," written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg and performed by Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers movie At the Circus ( 1939 ).
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