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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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
E. Y. Harburg canonical	43
Yip Harburg	11
E.Y. Harburg	5
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg	3
Edgar Yipsel Harburg	2
Burton Lane and E. Y. Harburg	1
Edgar Y. 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 ⓘ 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)

Referenced by (66)

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

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

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

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

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

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

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

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

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

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

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

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

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

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

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

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

Harold Arlen → collaboratedWith → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

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

this entity surface form: Edgar Yipsel Harburg

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

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

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

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Burton Lane → collaboratedWith → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

April in Paris → includesCompositionBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Herbert Stothart → collaboratedWith → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Fred Saidy → collaboratedWith → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

How Are Things in Glocca Morra? → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

How Are Things in Glocca Morra? → wordsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Old Devil Moon → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Look to the Rainbow → hasLyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

If This Isn’t Love → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

If This Isn’t Love → hasComposerLyricistTeam → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Burton Lane and E. Y. Harburg

If I Only Had the Nerve → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

If I Only Had the Nerve → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

The Munchkin Chorus → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Cabin in the Sky → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Golden Age of Broadway (early phase) → hasKeyFigure → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. Harburg

Hyman Arluck → notableCollaboration → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

It’s Only a Paper Moon → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

subject surface form: It's Only a Paper Moon

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

It’s Only a Paper Moon → hasLyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

subject surface form: It's Only a Paper Moon

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. "Yip" Harburg

Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. "Yip" Harburg

Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe → associatedAct → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: E.Y. "Yip" Harburg

Lydia the Tattooed Lady → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True → usesLyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Yip → givenName → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Edgar Yipsel Harburg

Yip → alsoKnownAs → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Edgar Y. Harburg

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yip Harburg

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

If I Only Had a Heart → lyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

The Jitterbug → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

The Jitterbug → rememberedAsWorkOf → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

The Jitterbug → associatedWithLyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich → workOf → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich → hasLyricsBy → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ

Necessity → lyricist → E. Y. Harburg ⓘ