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For the last ten years it’s been impossible to sell a good song to a publisher. The influence of the radio, of television is ruining the whole culture of the United States. It’s because the sponsors are more interested in seeing their own commercials than in doing something worthwhile. A country whose President can’t speak a simple declarative sentence doesn’t deserve anything better for its children. The esthetic quality of life is disappearing and one reason is the Cold War. We’re living in an age devoid of elder statesmen like Edmund Burke or Tom Paine or Lincoln or Jefferson. The beautiful language of diplomacy is gone. We have fight language like “Kill the ____.” How can we expect this not to seep through to our children? This is the atmosphere our kids are brought up in. Rock’n’roll, torch songs which are maudlin, self-pitying, undignified!

Yip, more than 65 years ago… From “Age of the Unthinking” by John Crosby. New York Herald Tribune, May 13, 1960.
 

 

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  • Yip Harburg LYRICS Foundation
    • Mission Statement
    • Funded Projects
    • Note on GRANTMAKING
  • EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE & YIP
    • Acting Songs Workshop Spring 2017
    • Myths in Musical Theatre
    • AMERICAN JAZZ WORKSHOP
    • BEYOND WORDS: THE ART OF NON-VERBAL PERFORMANCE – SPRING 2019
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