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Lehman Engel

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Lehman Engel. Their Words Are Music: The Great Theatre Lyricists and Their Lyrics. NY: Crown, 1975.

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I happened to be born in America in probably the capital of Tin Pan Alley which was Hester Street and Allen with a locomotive railroad…that puffed a lot of soot into our kitchen window as we slept on the fire escape…. Well, my parents came over on the S.S. Steerage, third class, and I understand that the main meal consisted of pumpernickel and a herring wrapped in newspaper. I suppose they got most of their news from the print that got off onto the herring. So that herring became a delicacy in our family, pumpernickel, and I think I was brought up on that, which accounts probably for my high blood pressure ….

Yip Harburg, excerpt from speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Oral History Luncheon, May 17, 1980 

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