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

Scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the artifact is among dozens of treasures ...

The Library of Congress has added a rare trove of Wizard of Oz memorabilia to its collection, highlighted by the only known ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg ...

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

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

The list goes on and on. But the songs Arlen wrote for “The Wizard of Oz” have a special quality, making them well-known and beloved even by those who aren’t especially fond of musicals.

The Wizard of Oz is, of course, a great movie. But it wouldn't have worked without the songs, which came from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, a couple of guys with a piano, imagination and energy.