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Library of Congress Acquires ‘Wizard of Oz' Materials, Including Only Known Lyric Sketch for ‘Over the Rainbow'

"Someday I'll wish upon a star + wake + find the darkness far behind me," E. Y. (Yip) Harburg scrawled in pencil on a piece ...

Library of Congress acquires only known lyrics sketch of 'Over the Rainbow'

Scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the artifact is among dozens of treasures ...
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THE WIZARD OF OZ Musical Sketches Added To The Library of Congress Harold Arlen Collection

The Library of Congress has acquired rare handwritten music and lyric sketches from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s The Wizard ...

Why ‘Over the Rainbow’ was almost cut from ‘The Wizard of Oz’: “The song stays or I go”

It's hard to imagine 'The Wizard of Oz' without Judy Garland singing 'Over the Rainbow', but it was almost cut from the ...

The Sphere’s epic ‘Wizard of Oz’ Las Vegas spectacle will ‘blow your mind’ — and blast you right out of Kansas

A hotly anticipated Las Vegas Sphere residency for “The Wizard of Oz” kicks off Thursday, Aug. 28 — putting the beloved 1939 ...
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‘Wizard of Oz’ song mocking Margaret Thatcher joins list of tunes ...

A 70-year-old song is giving the BBC a headache. The radio and television broadcaster has agonized over whether to play "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead," a tune from "The Wizard of Oz" that is being ...