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um....if anyone has a flte oart to the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow can u e-mail it to me at:bogard018@aol.com thanx:-)
The section on books shows makes no sense--he was blacklisted in 52 so he began to work on shows that premeried almost a decade earlier?
The lyrics and accompanying POV made a mess of the article. This is not a fan site! Tried to make better order of the sections. There's a major gap between the early 60s and Harburg's death, which someone needs to fill. J M Rice ( talk) 20:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Since "Yip" is a nickname, it would be nice to have at least a redirect from "E. Y. Harburg", which is how I first searched for him (fruitlessly - I had to work around through the Vernon Duke article.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.42.18 ( talk) 18:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
"Progressive" is a POV term for Harburg's political sympathies. I have changed it to "leftist", which seems to me a neutral term not likely to offend persons of any political persuasion. 173.16.252.154 ( talk) 14:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The article doesn't mention his poem "On That Great Civilized Morning", a fairly bitter satire that criticizes the condescending attitudes Westerners showed to the independence of African countries in the 1960s. The poem became lyrics (along with lyrics by Pete Seeger often called "Wimoweh") for a song by the Chad Mitchell Trio called "An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)" which was popular enough to make it onto The Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio. Is that notable enough to be mentioned in this article, and if so, where do you think it would fit in best? Jwrosenzweig ( talk) 08:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
ATHEIST
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree;
And only God who makes the tree Also makes the fools like me.
But only fools like me, you see, Can make a God, who makes a tree. - Yip Harberg
-- Rex Diablo ( talk) 19:56, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
An IP editor added two sources which he thought confirmed that Harburg was Communist and a member of the CPUSA. This is not claimed in more authoritative sources. See Leigh Donaldson "Yip Harburg: Father of the Socially Conscious Lyric", Gene Lees The musical worlds of Lerner and Loewe, p.153, and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame article. So I think that issue has been cleared up.
He was blacklisted though, a member of socialist organisations, a supporter of the popular front in the 1930s and, according to his son, an opponent of tyranny. Philip Cross ( talk) 10:40, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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um....if anyone has a flte oart to the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow can u e-mail it to me at:bogard018@aol.com thanx:-)
The section on books shows makes no sense--he was blacklisted in 52 so he began to work on shows that premeried almost a decade earlier?
The lyrics and accompanying POV made a mess of the article. This is not a fan site! Tried to make better order of the sections. There's a major gap between the early 60s and Harburg's death, which someone needs to fill. J M Rice ( talk) 20:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Since "Yip" is a nickname, it would be nice to have at least a redirect from "E. Y. Harburg", which is how I first searched for him (fruitlessly - I had to work around through the Vernon Duke article.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.42.18 ( talk) 18:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
"Progressive" is a POV term for Harburg's political sympathies. I have changed it to "leftist", which seems to me a neutral term not likely to offend persons of any political persuasion. 173.16.252.154 ( talk) 14:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The article doesn't mention his poem "On That Great Civilized Morning", a fairly bitter satire that criticizes the condescending attitudes Westerners showed to the independence of African countries in the 1960s. The poem became lyrics (along with lyrics by Pete Seeger often called "Wimoweh") for a song by the Chad Mitchell Trio called "An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)" which was popular enough to make it onto The Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio. Is that notable enough to be mentioned in this article, and if so, where do you think it would fit in best? Jwrosenzweig ( talk) 08:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
ATHEIST
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree;
And only God who makes the tree Also makes the fools like me.
But only fools like me, you see, Can make a God, who makes a tree. - Yip Harberg
-- Rex Diablo ( talk) 19:56, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
An IP editor added two sources which he thought confirmed that Harburg was Communist and a member of the CPUSA. This is not claimed in more authoritative sources. See Leigh Donaldson "Yip Harburg: Father of the Socially Conscious Lyric", Gene Lees The musical worlds of Lerner and Loewe, p.153, and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame article. So I think that issue has been cleared up.
He was blacklisted though, a member of socialist organisations, a supporter of the popular front in the 1930s and, according to his son, an opponent of tyranny. Philip Cross ( talk) 10:40, 16 April 2013 (UTC)