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 Yip Harburg - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After graduating university, Harburg spent three years in Uruguay to avoid involvement in WWI, which he opposed as a committed socialist.
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 Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
During the McCarthy era, from about 1951 to 1962, Yip Harburg was a victim of the Hollywood fllist when movie studio bosses fllisted industry people for their left-wing political activity.
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 interessantes: harburg wohnung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Harburg Foundation was created to ensure the continued influence of Yip Harburg's work and social outlook.
A lyricist and author best known for his Academy Award-winning song "Over the Rainbow," Yip Harburg began songwriting after his electric appliance business...
Born Isidore Hochberg to immigrant Jewish parents on the Lower East Side...
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 Musical Calendar for March 1
In 1961, he published a biography an still another close family friend, Harold Arlen, entitled Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues.
Among Arlen's over 400 songs are "It's Only A Paper Moon", "Stormy Weather" (a Lena Horne hit), and "Over The Rainbow" (with lyric by E. "Yip" Harburg).
In 1973, Jablonski's second edition of The Gershwin Years was the basis of a TV documentary narrated by another famous songwriter, Richard Rodgers.
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