Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist

Appendix: Musicals, Films, and Songs

Appendix Musicals, Films, and Songs This is a chronological listing of the key E. Y. “Yip” Harburg works discussed in this book. Extensive lists, which are continuously being updated as new items are discovered, are available at the Yip Harburg Foundation website (www .yipharburg.com). 1932 Americana “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (Music by Jay Gorney) The Great Magoo “If You Believed in Me”; later titled “It’s Only a Paper Moon” (Music by Harold Arlen) Walk a Little Faster “April in Paris” (Music by Vernon Duke) 1934 Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 “I Like the Likes of You” (Music by Vernon Duke) Life Begins at 8:40 (Music by Harold Arlen; Co-lyricist: Ira Gershwin) “What Can You Say in a Love Song?” “Quartet Erotica” “Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block” “Fun to Be Fooled” “You’re a Builder Upper” 1935 “Last Night When We Were Young” (Music by Harold Arlen) 1937 Hooray for What! (Music by Harold Arlen) “Down With Love” “Hooray for What” 1939 The Wizard of Oz (Music by Harold Arlen) 256 | Appendix “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” “Over the Rainbow” “The Jitterbug” “If I Only Had a Brain” At the Circus (Music by Harold Arlen) “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady” 1940 Hold on to Your Hats (Music by Burton Lane) “There’s a Great Day Coming, Mañana” 1942 “The Son of a Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam” (Music by Burton Lane) 1943 Cabin in the Sky “Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe” (Music by Harold Arlen) 1944 Song of Russia “And Russia Is Her Name” (Music by Jerome Kern) “Don’t Look Now, Mr. Dewey (But Your Record’s Showing)” (Music by Arthur Schwartz) “Free and Equal Blues” (Music by Earl Robinson) “You Gotta Get Out and Vote” (Music by Earl Robinson) Bloomer Girl (Music by Harold Arlen) “Sunday in Cicero Falls” “Grandma Was a Lady”; later renamed “It Was Good Enough for Grandma” “The Eagle and Me” “Man for Sale” “When the Boys Come Home” “Right as the Rain” 1945 “The Same Boat, Brother” (Music by Earl Robinson) 1947 Finian’s Rainbow (Music by Burton Lane) Musicals, Films, and Songs | 257 “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” “Look to the Rainbow” “That Great Come-and-Get-It Day” “Necessity” “When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich” “The Begat” “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love” “Something Sort of Grandish” “Old Devil Moon” 1951 Flahooley (Music by Sammy Fain) “You Too Can Be a Puppet” “B. G. Bigelow, Inc.” “Flahooley” “The Springtime Cometh” 1957 Jamaica (Music by Harold Arlen) “Push De Button” “Monkey in the Mango Tree” “Leave De Atom Alone” 1961 The Happiest Girl in the World (Music by Jacques Offenbach) “The Glory That Is Greece” “Adrift on a Star” 1968 Darling of the Day (Music by Jule Styne) 1971 What a Day for a Miracle / The Children’s Crusade (Music by Henry Myers, Larry Orenstein, Jeff Alexander) This page intentionally left blank ...