Showing posts with label April in Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April in Paris. Show all posts
Monday, April 8, 2013
Happy birthday, lyricist Yip Harburg
It is the birthday of lyricist Yip Harburg (1896), who wrote the words to Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, April in Paris, It's Only a Paper Moon, and all the songs in The Wizard of Oz. He became a songwriter at the urging of his boyhood friend Ira Gershwin after the market crash of 1929 ruined an electrical appliance company Harburg co-owned. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? became an anthem for the down and out during the Depression.
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