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HAROLD ARLEN AND HIS SONGS

July 22, 2024 ypadmin

Coming from Oxford University Press on July 26, 2024, Harold Arlen and His Songs by Walter Frisch is the first comprehensive book about the music of one of the great song composers of the twentieth century. Arlen was Yip Harburg’s most frequent composer-collaborator (they wrote over 150 songs together from 1932 to the mid-1970’s). 

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Ever since we parted with
The love we started with,
I just can’t erase you from my mind!
Really, it’s regrettable
You’re non-forgettable,
Every place I go, your face I find!
What would night time be
With ev’ry star away?
What is life to me
When you are far away?

Ask the sky above
And ask the earth below,
Why I’m so in love
And why I love you so.
Couldn’t tell you tho’ I try, dear,
Just why, dear,
I’m yours.

Lyric excerpt: verse intro and first lines of the chorus to “I’m Yours” (written for the Paramount featurette Leave It to Lester, 1930). Words by Yip Harburg. Music by John W. (“Johnny”) Green. This is a rare occurrence of the phrase “I love you” in Yip’s lyrics.

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