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Please help improve this article by introducing appropriate citations. (help, get involved!) This article has been tagged since September 2006. E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (April 8, 1896 – March 4, 1981) was an American lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ...
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Born Isidore Hochberg to immigrant Jewish parents on the Lower East Side of New York, his name was changed to Edgar Yipsel Harburg. He is best known by his nickname, Yip Harburg: Yipsel means squirrel in Yiddish. He attended Townsend Harris High School, where he and Ira Gershwin, who met over a shared fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan, worked on the school paper and became life-long friends. They went on to attend City College (later part of the City University of New York) together.[citation needed] This article describes some ethnic, historic, and cultural aspects of the Jewish identity; for a consideration of the Jewish religion, refer to the article Judaism. ...
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Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ...
Townsend Harris High School is a public magnet high school for the humanities in the borough of Queens in New York City. ...
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W. S. Gilbert Sir Arthur Sullivan Librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) collaborated on a series of fourteen comic operas in Victorian England between 1871 and 1896. ...
The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ...
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After graduating from university, Harburg spent three years in Uruguay to avoid involvement in World War I, which he opposed as a committed socialist. There he worked as a factory supervisor. After the war he returned to New York, married and had two children and started writing light verse for local newspapers. He became co-owner of Consolidated Electrical Appliance Company. The company went bankrupt following the crash of 1929, leaving Harburg "anywhere from $50,000 - $70,000 in debt,"1 which he insisted on paying back over the course of the next few decades. At this point, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg agreed that Yip should start writing song lyrics. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...
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The Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in 1929 and bottomed in 1933. ...
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 reviews, including Americana in 1932, for which he wrote the lyrics of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? to the tune of a lullaby Gorney had learned as a child in Russia. This song swept the nation, becoming an anthem of the Great Depression. Jay Gorney was an American theater and film song writer. ...
The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in history. ...
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The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ...
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. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...
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Vernon Duke (1903-1969), composer/songwriter, wrote such favorites as I Cant Get Started with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, April In Paris with lyrics by E.Y. (Yip) Harburg (1932), and What Is There To Say for The Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 also with Harburg. ...
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American popular composer. ...
Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British born American songwriter. ...
Burton Lane (February 2, 1912, New York City - January 5, 1997, New York City) was a composer and lyricist. ...
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...
The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. ...
Over the Rainbow, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, is one of the most famous songs of the late 1930s. ...
"So anyhow, Yip also wrote all the dialogue in that time and the setup to the songs and he also wrote the part where they give out the heart, the brains and the nerve, because he was the final script editor. And he - there was eleven screenwriters on that. And he pulled the whole thing together, wrote his own lines and gave the thing a coherence and unity which made it a work of art. But he doesn’t get credit for that. He gets lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, you see. But nevertheless, he put his influence on the thing." - Ernie Harburg, Yip's biographer 2 (However, sixty years later Harburg would receive a pop culture credit by having a ship's captain named after him in the 1998 Wizard of Oz-themed X-Files episode entitled "Triangle").
Working in Hollywood did not stop Harburg's career on Broadway. In the 40s he wrote a series of book musicals with social messages, including the quite successful Bloomer Girl (1944) (about suffragette and abolitionist Dolly Bloomer) and his most famous Broadway show, Finian's Rainbow (1947) (perhaps the first Broadway musical with a racially integrated chorus line, featuring Harburg's "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich"). Bloomer Girl was a Broadway musical that premiered on October 4, 1944. ...
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Finians Rainbow, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, was a musical that opened on Broadway in 1947, with Ella Logan and David Wayne in the lead roles. ...
During the McCarthy era, from about 1951 to 1962, Yip Harburg was a victim of the Hollywood blacklist when movie studio bosses blacklisted industry people for their left-wing political activity. No longer able to work in Hollywood, he nevertheless continued to write musicals for Broadway, among them was Jamaica, which featured Lena Horne. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ...
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Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer. ...
Harburg was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1972. Nine years later he died in a Los Angeles car accident. The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. ...
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In April 2005, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp recognizing his accomplishments. The stamp depicts him from a portrait taken by photographer Barbara Bordnick in 1978 along with a rainbow and lyric from Over the Rainbow. The first day ceremony was held at the 92nd Street Y in New York. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The 92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. ...
Songs
Over the Rainbow, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, is one of the most famous songs of the late 1930s. ...
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April in Paris is a song composed by Vernon Duke and written by E. Y. Harburg in 1932. ...
Its Only a Paper Moon is a popular song. ...
Lydia the Tattooed Lady, which became one of Groucho Marxs signature tunes, was written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, and first appeared in the movie At the Circus (1939). ...
Broadway Revues - Earl Carroll's Sketchbook of 1929 (1929) - co-composer and co-lyricist with Jay Gorney
- Garrick Gaieties (1930) - contributing lyricist
- Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1930 (1930) - contributing songwriter
- The Vanderbilt Revue (1930) - contributing lyricist
- Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 (1931) - featured lyricist for "Mailu"
- Shoot the Works (1931) - contributing composer and lyricist
- Ballyhoo of 1932 (1932) - lyricist
- Americana (1932) - lyricist
- Walk a Little Faster (1932) - lyricist
- Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 (1934) - primary lyricist (for about half of the numbers)
- Life Begins at 8:40 (1934) - co-lyricist with Ira Gershwin
- The Show is On (1936) - featured lyricist
- Blue Holiday (1945) - all-Black cast - contributing composer and lyricist
- At Home With Ethel Waters (1953) - featured lyricist for "Happiness is Jes' a Thing Called Joe"
Post-retirement or posthumous credits: Jay Gorney was an American theater and film song writer. ...
The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. ...
The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. ...
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Ethel Waters, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1938 Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an African American blues vocalist who frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on Broadway and off. ...
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- A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (1980) - featured lyricist for "Over the Rainbow"
- Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood (1986) - featured lyricist to music by Jerome Kern
- Mostly Sondheim (2002) - featured lyricist
Over the Rainbow, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, is one of the most famous songs of the late 1930s. ...
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American popular composer. ...
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. ...
Broadway Musicals - Hooray For What! (1937) - lyricist and originator
- Hold on to Your Hats (1940) - lyricist
- Bloomer Girl (1944) - lyricist, originator and director for musical numbers
- Finian's Rainbow (1947) - lyricist, originator and co-bookwriter
- Flahooley (1951) - lyricist, originator and co-bookwriter
- Jamaica (1957) - lyricist, originator and co-bookwriter - Tony Nomination for Best Musical
- The Happiest Girl in the World (1961) - originator and lyricist to music by Jacques Offenbach and originator of the story, based on Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- Darling of the Day (1968) - lyricist
Finians Rainbow, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, was a musical that opened on Broadway in 1947, with Ella Logan and David Wayne in the lead roles. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
// 1940s 1949 Kiss Me, Kate - Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. ...
Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880), composer and cellist, was one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy. ...
Lysistrata (Attic: ΛυσιστÏάτη, Doric: ΛυσιστÏάτα), Aristophanes anti-war comedy, written in 411 BC, has female characters, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, barricading the public funds building and withholding sex from their husbands to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. ...
Sketch of Aristophanes Aristophanes (Greek: , c. ...
Darling of the Day is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne. ...
Films - Moonlight and Pretzels - 1933
- The Singing Kid - 1936
- Golddiggers of 1937 - 1936
- The Wizard of Oz - 1939
- At the Circus - 1939
- Babes on Broadway - 1941
- Ship Ahoy - 1942
- Cabin in the Sky - 1943
- Can't Help Singing - 1944
- Gay Purr-ee - 1962
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...
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Gay-Purree is an animated film musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. ...
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