#yip harburg

[citizenscreen]

Popular song lyricist Yip Harburg (April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981)

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

still a very crucial album, to me, personally

[nonesuchrecords]

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs “Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying,” from her Grammy-nominated album Ghost Song, live at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York this past spring, with Sullivan Fortner on piano, Keita Ogawa on percussion, Marvin Sewell on guitar, Alexa Tarantino  on flute, and Yasushi Nakamura on bass. The songs were written by Harold Arlen/Herbert Stothart/Yip Harburg and Gregory Porter, respectively. 

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Jerry Lee Lewis and Chris Isaak performing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”. _________________________________ Somewhere Over The Rainbow Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Yip Harburg

Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far Behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly Beyond the rainbow Why, oh why can't I?

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1269

first posted in facebook february 17, 2024

emmanuel manu opoku -- "at somewhere" (2021)

"there's a place for us a time and a place for us hold my hand and we're halfway there hold my hand and i'll take you there somehow some day somewhere!" … stephen sondheim

"my portraits investigate the mysteries of identity that are shaped by time, space, and multiple experiences. the paintings explore the interlacing of the genres of still life and portraiture to form a unique system of painting" … emmanuel manu opoku

"i used to walk with you along the avenue our hearts were carefree and gay how could i know I'd lose you somewhere along the way?" … sammy gallop

"i believe that art is a powerful tool that can be used to tell stories, to challenge assumptions, and to bring people together" … emmanuel manu opoku

"somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly birds fly over the rainbow why, then, oh, why can't i?" … yip harburg

"i will meet you at the corner of someplace and somewhere at sometime someday somehow" … al janik

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Kocin Kociński Trio "14 Short Stories"

Allegro Records, 2022 Macieja Kocina Kocińskiego śmiało określić można mianem muxzyka „rozchwytywanego”. Znajdziemy jego nazwisko na kilkudziesięciu płytach o zróżnicowanej stylistyce. Lista artystów z którymi współpracował błyszczy nazwiskami wielkich gwiazd. Środowiskowa popularność sprawiła jednak, że na drugi album autorskiego tria   Kocina Kocińskiego czekać  trzeba było niemal dziesięć…

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Dorothy Bird jumps for the ball as the umpire, known as Prince Leon, calls a sliding Violet West safe, April 12, 1938. The game, in Prospect Park, was played for relaxation and publicity by showgirls in the cast of Hooray for What?, a Broadway musical starring Ed Wynn and featuring songs by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen.

Photo: Ben Sandhaus for the NY Daily News via Getty Images/Fine Art America

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Growing up, my Aunt Karen used to sing me and my cousins the song “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady”. It was written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen and probably most famously sung by Groucho Marx in the 1939 movie “At the Circus.” I love it! It’s very silly and a little wink-wink dirty (“Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon” might mean something else 😂) Also, it was Jim Henson’s favorite song which is delightful to know.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Infamy: On this day in 1938, the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established to investigate suspected communist sympathies among private citizens and organizations, leading to the blacklisting of hundreds of artists and academics. The committee became permanent in 1948 and was terminated in 1975. The HUAC is notable for causing de facto media censorship among artists suspected of having communist sympathies. Their investigations resulted in a Hollywood blacklist of over 300 actors, directors, and others. Artists whose careers were damaged by the committee included Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Alan Lomax, Paul Robeson, Aaron Copland, and Yip Harburg. When one Senator asked Robeson why he didn't remain in the Soviet Union, he replied "Because my father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?" In 1960, William Mandel, an expert on Soviet affairs who had lost his position as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution due to anti-communist repression, was called to testify in front of the HUAC. When asked "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?", Mandel responded: "Honorable beaters of children, sadists, uniformed and in plain clothes, distinguished Dixiecrat wearing the clothing of a gentleman, eminent Republican who opposes an accommodation with the one country with which we must live at peace in order for us and all our children to survive... If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any way, you are insane!" Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/.../House_Un-American_Activities... https://www.mtsu.edu/.../house-un-american-activities... 

[h//t Guillaume Gris]

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twitter. com/MichaelWarbur17/status/1675432015737286656?s=20 Sidenote: Did you ever read the background of Yip Harburg?

the metaphor you can draw there of an authoritarian (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain) definitely does have some topical resonance. i think you can also view this as cynicism, falsehoods, and coercion standing in opposition to kindness/heart, bravery, and curiosity/intellect, there are a lot of meanings to draw from it as there often are from fantasy(and children's lit)!

and yes! it is that interestingly very reflective of yip harburg's life and many of his ideals.

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

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Cécile McLorin Salvant performs Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg’s “Over the Rainbow” live at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York last spring, with Sullivan Fortner on piano, Keita Ogawa on percussion, Marvin Sewell on guitar, Alexa Tarantino  on flute, and Yasushi Nakamura on bass.

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Janis Ian with Tommy Emmanuel performing "At Seventeen”, a song that Ian wrote and for which she won the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The performance ends with “Over the Rainbow”. _____________________ At Seventeen Songwriter: Janis Ian

I learned the truth at 17 That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear skinned smiles Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew The Friday night charades of youth Were spent on one more beautiful At 17 I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces Lacking in the social graces Desperately remained at home Inventing lovers on the phone

Who called to say, "Come dance with me" And murmured vague obscenities It isn't all it seems At 17

A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs Whose name I never could pronounce Said, "Pity please the ones who serve They only get what they deserve"

And the rich relationed hometown queen Marries into what she needs With a guarantee of company And haven for the elderly

Remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debentures of quality And dubious integrity

Their small-town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received At 17

To those of us who knew the pain Of valentines that never came And those whose names were never called When choosing sides for basketball

It was long ago and far away The world was younger than today And dreams were all they gave for free To ugly duckling girls like me

We all play the game, and when we dare To cheat ourselves at solitaire Inventing lovers on the phone Repenting other lives unknown

That call and say, "Come dance with me" And murmur vague obscenities At ugly girls like me At 17

_________________________ Over the Rainbow Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Yip Harburg

When all the world is a hopeless jumble And the raindrops tumble all around Heaven opens a magic lane

When all the clouds darken up the skyway There's a rainbow highway to be found Leading from your windowpane

To a place behind the sun Just a step beyond the rain

Somewhere, over the rainbow Way up high There's a land that I dreamed of Once in a lullaby

Somewhere, over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where laughter falls like lemon drops away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me

Somewhere, over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true

If happy little bluebirds fly Beyond the rainbow Why, oh, why can't I?

[dynamoe]

Lydia the Tattooed Lady, sung for the first time by Groucho in At the Circus (a not-very-good Marx Bros movie. Skippable)

Then, a year later, sung by Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story, acting "crazy" for undercover reporters.

written by Yip (Yip. The man's name was Yip!) Harburg/ Harold Arlen who also did Somewhere Over the Rainbow (and the other Wizard of Oz songs) and It's Only A Paper Moon....

Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics to Brother Can You Spare a Dime and Arlen wrote literally every song ever created, he was that prolific!

Oh Lydia, oh, Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh, Lydia, the tattooed lady She has eyes that folks adore so And a torso even more so Lydia, oh, Lydia, that encyclopedia Oh, Lydia, the queen of them all On her back is the Battle of Waterloo Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus too And proudly above the waves The Red, White and Blue You can learn a lot from Lydia

La la la la la la La la la la la la

She can give you a view of the world In tattoo if you step up and tell her where For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree Or Washington crossing the Delaware

La la la la la la La la la la la la

Oh, Lydia, oh, Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh, Lydia, the tattooed lady When her muscles start relaxin' Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson Lydia, oh, Lydia, that encyclopedia Oh, Lydia, the champ of them all

For two bits she will do a Mazurka in Jazz With a view of Niagara that no artist has And on a clear day you can see Alcatraz You can learn a lot from Lydia

La la la la la la La la la la la la

Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso Here is Captain Spaulding* exploring the Amazon And Godiva, but with her pajamas on

La la la la la la La la la la la la

Oh Lydia, oh, Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh, Lydia, the tattooed lady When she stands, her laps go littler When she sits, she sits on Hitler Lydia, oh, Lydia, that encyclopedia Oh, Lydia, the queen of them all She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat And now the old boy's in command of the fleet For he went and married Lydia

I said Lydia (he said Lydia) I say Lydia (we said Lydia) La la

*Groucho's character in Animal Crackers, a much better Marx Bros. movie.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjspGFG8OCo

The inimitable Groucho Marx, who made it to the exalted status of graffiti during Parisian student unrest in the late 1960s.  “Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.” The Marx Brothers were, of course, Jewish, and a lot of their material came from Jewish writers such as Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, who wrote this delightful number for the 1939 film At The Circus.  Why am I not showing you the clip of Groucho performing it in the film?

Because the studio censored it.  1939 was, shall we say, a delicate year politically.  There were Certain Folks™ in Germany whom the studio really didn’t want to make uncomfy.  And there is a line in the third verse -- you’ll know which line when you hear it -- that would make those Certain Folks™ very uncomfy indeed.  But, once the war actually did break out, there was no need to make nice to Certain Folks™ any more, and Groucho went on to record Harburg and Arlen’s original version of the song.

Remember this:  The answer to the question, “Well, would we have allowed the Nazis to get away with [insert current foreign-policy tap dance here]?” is usually a resounding “Yes.”

[guywithbeer]

"It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular song published in 1933, this version is sung by Ella Fitzgerald.