“Oz” manuscripts added to Library of Congress

On August 25, 2025 the Library of Congress announced the acquisition of “rare music

Billy Ray Cyrus & Friends perform “Over the Rainbow”

Billy Ray Cyrus, along with guitarist-singer Micki Free and producer-singer-composer Buck 22 released a

Composer Philip Springer who wrote several songs with Yip, mostly in the 1970's during

Ari Axelrod’s CD, A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway, released Jan.

Lyricist Ira Gershwin, Yip's friend since their high school days together beginning in 1910,

Coming from Oxford University Press on July 26, 2024, Harold Arlen and His Songs

Larry Stempel. Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater, W.W. Norton and Company, Ltd.,

Steven Suskin. The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations. Oxford University

Who's Who. 1980-81 edition. NY: St. Martin's Press,

Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters. New York: Atheneum, 1973; DaCapo,

William Zinsser. Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. David R. Godine, 2001.

Rhymes for the Irreverent. (Originally published by Grossman, NY, 1965.) Reissued by the Yip Harburg

Look to the Rainbow (1997). On April 6, 1997, Pete Seeger and friends launched the

More Rhymes for the Irreverent. Originally published as At This Point in Rhyme (NY: Crown, 1976). Reissued

Rhymes for the Irreverent. Reissued January 2006 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. This hardcover edition

Yip and Gersh (1998). On June 14, 1998 the Yip Harburg Foundation presented a