Harold Arlen

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Harold Arlen was an American composer best known for writing classic popular songs and film scores, including the music for "Over the Rainbow" and many other standards from the Great American Songbook.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
film composer
human
songwriter
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Song
awardReceivedFor Over the Rainbow
birthName Hyman Arluck
burialPlace Ferncliff Cemetery
causeOfDeath cancer
collaboratedWith Dorothy Fields
E. Y. Harburg
Ira Gershwin
Johnny Mercer
Ted Koehler
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1905-02-15
dateOfDeath 1986-04-23
ethnicGroup Jewish American
fullName Harold Arlen
genre film score
jazz
popular music
knownFor contributions to the Great American Songbook
writing songs for the film The Wizard of Oz
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Great American Songbook
notableWork Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Blues in the Night
Come Rain or Come Shine
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Get Happy
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
If I Only Had a Brain
Ill Wind
It’s Only a Paper Moon
I’ve Got the World on a String
Let’s Fall in Love
Lydia the Tattooed Lady
My Shining Hour
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
Out of This World
Over the Rainbow
Stormy Weather
That Old Black Magic
The Man That Got Away
We’re Off to See the Wizard
occupation composer
songwriter
placeOfBirth Buffalo, New York, United States
placeOfDeath New York City, New York, United States
religion Judaism
wroteMusicFor Blues in the Night (film)
Stormy Weather (film)
The Wizard of Oz


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