The Great Man’s Whiskers
The Great Man's Whiskers (1973) (aka The Grate Mans Wiskurs) Yip's last movie project, filmed in 1969 but not shown until 1973. Based on a one-act play by formerly blacklisted writer Adrian Scott, it is based on the true story of a little girl who wrote to President Lincoln urging him to grow a beard. Yip … Continue Reading ››
Paper Moon
Paper Moon (1973). Based on Addie Pray, a best-selling novel, this movie's title is taken from the well-known Yip Harburg-Harold Arlen song "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1932). In an extra feature ("The Next Picture Show") on the Paramout DVD, director Peter Bogdanovich explains how and why he changed the title of his project, with … Continue Reading ››
A Quip with Yip and Friends
A Quip with Yip and Friends (1976; video released in 1990). An episode of PBS's Anyone for Tennyson? ("Ogden and Dorothy, Phyllis and Yip") in which Jack Lemmon, Cynthia Herman and Jill Tanner recite five of Yip's verses from Rhymes for the Irreverent, concluding with Lemmon's spoken rendition of the lyric to "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music (1976), a landmark TV series from the late 1970’s, features several clips of Yip Harburg (parts 7 and 12) who, along with several of his peers from the mid-20th century era of Broadway-Hollywood-Tin Pan Alley songwriting, was interviewed especially for this project.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. 4thed. New York and London: Jaques Catrell Press and Bowker, 1980.
Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman and Thomas Travisano, editors
Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman and Thomas Travisano, editors. The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volume Two: Modernisms 1900-1950. Rutgers University Press. Includes the lyrics to “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and “Over the Rainbow.”
R. LeRoy Bannerman
R. LeRoy Bannerman. Norman Corwin and Radio: The Golden Years. University of Alabama Press, 1986. Contains passages about CBS radio programs on which Yip collaborated with Corwin during the 1940's.
Stephen Banfield
Stephen Banfield. Jerome Kern. Yale Broadway Masters Series. Yale University Press, 2006. Contains a section about the songs Yip wrote with Kern for the 1944 motion picture Can't Help Singing.
Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnick
Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnick. Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time. NY: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004.
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin. Song by Song: 14 Great Lyric Writers. England: Ross Anderson Publications, 1984. Chapter 8: "E.Y. Harburg: Somewhere Over the Rainbow," p. 118.