Imagine The Wizard of Oz without “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “We’re off to See the Wizard.” Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg wrote them in collaboration with Harold Arlen. Harburg’s son Ernie explains how his father brought the rainbow to Oz.
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