Arlen and Yip Harburg added new songs to the film version of the show, including the song "Ain't It The Truth" for Lena Horne. In the film, Horne sang the song while sitting in a bubble bath.

He put someone like Yip Harburg (the lyricist of “Over the Rainbow”) and actor Fredric March, who weren’t communists, on the National Security Index with individuals deemed threatening ...

“Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” Kermit the Frog once sang. Well, it’s because of Yip Harburg.

a critical biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. In 1987-8, he was a regular commentator for The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and from the late ‘70s through the mid-‘80s, he was a ...

He put someone like Yip Harburg (the lyricist of “Over the Rainbow”) and actor Fredric March, who weren’t communists, on the National Security Index with individuals deemed threatening; in case of ...

Douglas H. Banker passed away on April 16th from complications of pneumonia. He was the loving husband of 65 years to Sarah ...

a Yip Harburg evening, a Rogers and Hart evening and a Gershwin evening. These evenings of narrative history and song were presented at the Century Association, the New York Historical Society, the ...

is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written by lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, it was part of the 1932 musical revue Americana; the melody is based on a ...

He did so with his rollicking rendition of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s “Over The Rainbow.” Who else but The Killer could repurpose a song written for 1939’s The Wizard Of Oz and take it ...