E. Y. Harburg

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American Jew human librettist lyricist songwriter

E. Y. Harburg was an American lyricist best known for writing the words to classic songs such as "Over the Rainbow" and other standards of the Golden Age of Hollywood and Broadway.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Yip Harburg	4
E.Y. Harburg	3
Edgar Yipsel Harburg	1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American Jew ⓘ human ⓘ librettist ⓘ lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ
awardReceivedFor	Over the Rainbow ⓘ
burialPlace	Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Arthur Schwartz ⓘ Burton Lane ⓘ Harold Arlen ⓘ Jay Gorney ⓘ Jerome Kern ⓘ Jule Styne ⓘ Sammy Fain ⓘ Vernon Duke ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1896-04-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1981-03-05 ⓘ
educatedAt	City College of New York ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish Americans ⓘ
fullName	E. Y. Harburg self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Edgar Yipsel Harburg
genre	film music ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ popular music ⓘ
givenName	Edgar ⓘ
hasGender	male ⓘ
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned	English ⓘ
movement	American popular song ⓘ
nickname	Yip ⓘ E. Y. Harburg self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yip Harburg
notableFor	socially conscious lyrics ⓘ
notableWork	April in Paris ⓘ Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? ⓘ Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead ⓘ Free and Equal Blues ⓘ Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe ⓘ How Are Things in Glocca Morra? ⓘ If I Only Had a Brain ⓘ If I Only Had a Heart ⓘ If I Only Had the Nerve ⓘ It’s Only a Paper Moon ⓘ surface form: It's Only a Paper Moon Leave the Atom Alone ⓘ Lydia the Tattooed Lady ⓘ surface form: Lydia, the Tattooed Lady Napoleon NERFINISHED ⓘ Necessity ⓘ Old Devil Moon ⓘ Over the Rainbow ⓘ Children of Eden ⓘ surface form: The Begat The Eagle and Me ⓘ The Jitterbug ⓘ The Marvelous Land of Oz ⓘ surface form: The Merry Old Land of Oz When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love ⓘ When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich ⓘ
occupation	bookwriter ⓘ librettist ⓘ lyricist ⓘ poet ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Lower East Side ⓘ surface form: Lower East Side, Manhattan New York City ⓘ
placeOfDeath	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Los Angeles ⓘ
politicalView	left-wing politics ⓘ
wroteLyricsFor	Bloomer Girl ⓘ Finian's Rainbow ⓘ Flahooley ⓘ Jamaica ⓘ The Wizard of Oz ⓘ surface form: The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Harold Arlen → collaboratedWith → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

E. Y. Harburg → fullName → E. Y. Harburg self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Edgar Yipsel Harburg

Westchester Hills Cemetery → hasNotableBurial → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

If I Only Had a Brain → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Over the Rainbow → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

We're Off to See the Wizard → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Finian's Rainbow → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

Over the Rainbow → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

The Wizard of Oz → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

E. Y. Harburg → nickname → E. Y. Harburg self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Finian's Rainbow → originalStageLyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

Finian's Rainbow → screenwriter → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg