Radio host Bill Rudman’s 2014 interview with Ernie Harburg, “Oz Turns 75,” retitled “Oz Turns 85,” is being rebroadcast on PRX as of July 15, 2024. Bill Rudman’s Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical is a weekly radio program showcasing the best of Broadway and Hollywood – songs from the turn … Continue Reading ››
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EARL ROBINSON SINGING “FREE AND EQUAL BLUES” IN 1980’S
On July 6, 2024 The Daily Kos featured an article about the Yip Harburg-Earl Robinson civil rights-themed song, “Free and Equal Blues,” written during World War Two as a protest against the racial segregation of blood supplies by the United States Armed Forces. The song is heard via a YouTube link as performed by Robinson in … Continue Reading ››
BETTE MIDLER’S “IF I ONLY HAD A HEART” PARODY
On July 2, 2024 singer and actress Bette Midler posted a parody of the lyric of the Yip Harburg-Harold Arlen classic "If I Only Had a Heart" from The Wizard of Oz to express her opinion of various Supreme Court judges.
“In Times Like These”
The World War Two-era Yip Harburg-Sammy Fain song “In Times Like These” from the MGM feature film Meet the People (1944) is highlighted on the June 7, 2024 edition of Will Friedwald’s “Slouching Towards Birdland” blog, available on Substack to subscribers.
“Black Music Sunday” Celebrates “Finian’s Rainbow”
Denise Oliver Velez's article “Black Music Sunday: A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration of ‘Finian’s Rainbow’” (March 17, 2024) can be found at the Daily Kos web site.
SIXTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH
Sixty years ago this month, on Sunday February 9, 1964 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time, YIP HARBURG’s most frequent composer-collaborator, HAROLD ARLEN, was honored with a one-hour CBS TV special entitled “The Songs of Harold Arlen.” Hosted by Walter Cronkite, the lineup of participants included Yip, as well as … Continue Reading ››
SETTING THE STANDARD
Beginning Nov. 15, 2022, Yip Harburg is the focus of one of the podcasts in the "Setting the Standard" series by Warner Chappell Music and Bang/Audiation. The podcast features stories from the Great American Songbook. Interviewees include Ernie Harburg (Yip's son), … Continue Reading ››
JOHN MURELLE’S “SPOTLIGHT ON YIP HARBURG”
In November 2021 and March 2022 vocal coach and musical theatre historian John Murelle paid tribute to Yip and his work in "Look to the Rainbow" (epidodes 1 and 2) part of his "Spotlight" series … Continue Reading ››
YIP HARBURG NIGHT AT THE 2022 CABARET CONVENTION
The 2022 Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention will kick off this year's events with a tribute to Yip Harburg hosted by Andrea Marcovicci and Jeff Harnar. Read the press release and this New York Sun feature story by Will Friedwald.
RANDY RAINBOW’S “JITTERBUG” PARODY
See and hear Randy Rainbow's clever parody of the Yip Harburg-Harold Arlen song "The Jitterbug" (cut from The Wizard of Oz film) in which the singer-satirist skewers the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd killing.