![]() ![]() Are we at peace? Are we in trouble? Do we feel beautiful? Are we violent? Listen to our songs. While expressing a general hope for a better future, fitting well the story’s motif, the song draws on the lyricist’s personal Jewish experience, tradition and the ominous pre WWII and holocaust era.Ī song is the pulse of a nation’s heart, a fever chart of its health. ![]() Lyricist Yip Harburg, though he was never credited for that. Written by a pair of NYC based writers (who also wrote the rest of the film’s songs), the song became a classic and an all time favorites. In 2001, the National Endowment of the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America named the song the 20th century top song (Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” came second). ![]() Also known as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, the 1939 classic and Academy Award winning song from “Wizard of Oz”. ![]()
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