YIP HARBURG: FORGOTTEN LYRICIST

July 12, 2019 ypadmin

YouTube’s “History Guy” posted a segment about Yip Harburg on July 12, 2019 entitled “Yip Harburg: Forgotten Lyricist.”

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In that good old Hoover time,
In that good old Hoover time,
Lots of jobs for everyone,
Bootleg booze and crime.

Buddies singing ev’rywhere
Can you spare a dime?
Don’t go back with Dewey
To that good old Hoover time.

lyric excerpt: “In That Good Old Hoover Time” (to the tune of “In the Good Old Summertime”)
lyric by Yip Harburg, written for the Democratic National Committee’s Election Eve Radio Special, broadcast Nov. 6, 1944 (75 years ago this month), hosted by Humphrey Bogart. Sung by James Cagney, Keenan Wynn and Groucho Marx. “Dewey” was Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican candidate who lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in that election year.

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