Who Put the Rainbow in the ""Wizard of Oz?"": Yip... - Harold Meyerson, Ernie H...

Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?Yip Harburg, Lyricist\nAuthor(s): Harold Meyerson, Ernie Harburg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472083121, 978-0472083121\nSynopsis\n\"". . . required reading for anyone interested in the great American songs.\""-New York Times Book Review Many of us can sing along with Dorothy when she imagines a place \""Over the Rainbow.\"" And we all remember the Depression-era classic \""Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?\"" But very few can name the man who put the words to these celebrated hallmarks of American music- Yip Harburg. Five hundred songs spanning a fifty-year career bear witness to the brilliance of this until-now obscure figure. Plunge into this scrupulously documented volume and discover how Harburg, once a poet of light verse, played a major role in the transformation of the Broadway revue into the sophisticated musical of the 1940s and 1950s. Wi.