Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen · Arts & Literature
Composer - Over the Rainbow
1905, Buffalo, New York, United States — 1986, New York City, United States
United States
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Harold Arlen was a composer of the Great American Songbook whose songs include 'Over the Rainbow' (1939, Academy Award), 'Stormy Weather' and 'Get Happy'. The son of a synagogue cantor, he drew on the melodic phrasing of Jewish liturgical singing and of blues and jazz. He was born Hyman Arluck into an Ashkenazi Jewish family.
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Source: Great American Songbook
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Composer - Over the Rainbow
Source: Great American Songbook
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