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Feb 28, 1981 · Yip Harburg's not just one of the Sunshine Boys in full throttle: E. Y. Harburg is one of the few great American lyricists -- brilliant, agile, full of fun, full of grief, full of beans.
6 days ago · E.Y. Harburg was a U.S. lyricist, producer, and director. “Yip” Harburg attended the City College of New York with his friend Ira Gershwin. When his electrical-appliance business went bankrupt in 1929, he devoted himself to songwriting for Broadway, composing songs such as the Depression anthem
Sep 18, 2013 · Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist deserves a more inspired title, and I hang that flawed hat on the house rather than the author. Harburg, blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, described himself in a radio interview two decades later as “one of those nice, vociferous guys who was fighting injustice and joining all the ...
Apr 21, 2017 · 1. Harburg listed as a Communist by SAC R. A. Hood to J. Edgar Hoover, November 1, 1944, Edgar Y. (Yip) Harburg File, File #100-335549, Record Group 65, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD. In the FBI file, proper names are often capitalized throughout. For the purposes of readability I have regularized the spelling.
Feb 26, 2013 · In “Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist,” historian Harriet Hyman Alonso relates the story of Isidore Hochberg, who was born in New York, of Russian-Jewish origin, and ...
E. Y. (Yip) Harburg (1896-1981), in a career spanning over fifty years, was known as “Broadway’s social conscience.”. A master lyricist, poet and book writer, Yip was always dedicated to social justice. He wrote the words to over 600 songs, most notably all the lyrics in the 1939 motion picture classic “The Wizard of Oz,” including ...
The Yip Harburg Foundation funds projects to promote economic and social justice through grants and scholarships. The YHF preserves and enhances E.Y. (“Yip”) Harburg’s legacy of socially conscious songs and musical plays.
