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* Harold Arlen was also the 1982 recipient of The Johnny Mercer Award, the SHOF’s highest honor Harold Arlen was born Hymen Arluck, the son of a synagogue cantor, was born in Buffalo, New York on February 15, 1905, and emerged as one of the greatest of all American composers and songwriters, writing extraordinarily complex melodies and harmonies that somehow remained accessible to a broad ...
HAROLD ARLEN (born Hyman Arluck) February 15, 1905 to April 23, 1986 INTRODUCTION. Harold Arlen wrote some of the greatest hits from the 30's and 40's, including the entire score to the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz.
Nov 7, 2015 · Composer Harold Arlen (sitting, right) joins Judy Garland, Bert Lahr (far left), Ray Bolger (back row, left) and various executives for a Wizard of Oz sing-along in the NBC radio studio, circa 1939.
More than 75 years later, the film and the song by composer Harold Arlen and lyricist Yip Harburg are cultural touchstones. In 2001, “Over the Rainbow” was voted the greatest song of the 20th century in a joint survey by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America.
Harold Arlen. Music Department: The Wizard of Oz. No American has written more first-rate songs than Arlen. He grew up in a musical family (his father was a cantor), and disappointed but didn't surprise his parents by dropping out of high school to become a musician.
In July 1938, Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg were signed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer (M-G-M) to write the score for the filming of the childhood classic The Wizard of Oz.
Jun 11, 2018 · Harold Arlen > From the time of his birth until he wrote the music to his first popular >hit, "Get Happy," the growth of Harold Arlen (1905-1986) from cantor's son >to jazz pianist, composer, and arranger could not have been better >orchestrated if he wrote it himself.
