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Harriet Alonso. Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist

September 18, 2014 ypadmin

Harriet Alonso. Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist. Wesleyan University Press, 2012. 305 pages, with illustrations. This interview-based biography is, in the author's words, "a study of the lyrical world of Yip Harburg, as told largely by Yip himself through interviews, speeches, song lyrics, and poems."

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Justin Kaplan, General Editor

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Justin Kaplan, General Editor. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 16th Edition. Little, Brown & Company, 1992, p. 699.

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Herbert Keyser.Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Herbert Keyser. Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists. Applause Books, 2009. Contains a beautifully illustrated chapter on Yip.

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Richard Koszarski. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Richard Koszarski. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff, Rutgers University Press, 2008. Several passages of this thorough history discuss Yip's little-known lyric writing stint at Paramount's Long Island Astoria Studios from 1929 through the early 1930's.

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John Lahr.Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

John Lahr. Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr. NY: Knopf, 1969.

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John Lahr. The Lemon-Drop Kid

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

John Lahr. "The Lemon-Drop Kid" in The New Yorker. Sept. 30, 1996. Reprinted in Honky Tonk Parade, Overlook Press, 2005.

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Ethan Mordden.Broadway Babies

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Ethan Mordden. Broadway Babies. NY: Oxford University Press, 1983.

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America’s Songs II

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Michael Lasser. America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Postwar Years. Routledge, 2013. The second volume in the series, containing material on "Buds Won't Bud," "Down with Love," "Last Night When We Were Young," "In the Shade of the New Apple Tree" and "Fun to Be Fooled," the latter lyric written with Ira … Continue Reading ››

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Stephen Nelson

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Stephen Nelson. "Only a Paper Moon": The Theatre of Billy Rose. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985, 1987. This examination of the impresario's stage career includes a discussion of some of the musical revues to which Yip contributed songs.

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W. Rigdon, ed.Notable Names in the American Theatre

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

W. Rigdon, ed. Notable Names in the American Theatre. Clifton, NJ: J.T. White, 1976.

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