On August 25, 2025 the Library of Congress announced the acquisition of “rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. ‘Yip’ Harburg, who collaborated on the song score to the iconic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.” They are now part of the Library’s Harold Arlen Collection. The acquisition includes 35 manuscript items including a handwritten draft to a section of the lyric to the song “Over the Rainbow” [“someday I’ll wish upon a star….”]. Other drafts of Oz-related materials donated by Yip himself to Yale University are available from Yale’s E.Y. Harburg Collection at the Gilmore Music Library.
