Amanda records a CD of her favorite Yip Harburg songs

A project in New York, NY by Amanda Thorpe
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Downtown chanteuse and a crew of all-star NYC musicians reinterpret popular and obscure gems from Harburg's classic American songbook.
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Dates: Jul 15th -> Aug 18th (35 days)
Project By: Amanda Thorpe
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Over the Rainbow

August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
"Over the Rainbow", written in 1939 for The Wizard of Oz, was initially deleted from the film after a preview because MGM chief executive Louis B. Mayer and producer Mervyn LeRoy thought it "slowed down the picture" and that "the song sounds like... (Read More)

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August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Yip, the street smart Jewish socialist and Vernon Duke, the cosmopolitan White Russian social-striving fashion plate "effete elitist" had a difficult and short lived relationship, but they wrote some great songs in their 4 years together! Initially... (Read More)

Recording

August 11th - via: kickstarter.com
We just had a great weekend in the studio and have basic tracks to the following songs that will be on the Harburg album (not necessarily in this alphabetized order): Adrift on a Star April In Paris Brother Can you spare a dimeI'm Yours Last Night... (Read More)

Old Devil Moon

August 8th - via: kickstarter.com
I first heard Old Devil Moon in 1992, on the wonderful 1957 album, Anita Sings the Most with the Oscar Peterson quartet. I have been an Anita O’Day and Devil Moon fan ever since.  The song is from the 1947 musical, Finian's Rainbow, about a... (Read More)

Last Night....

August 1st - via: kickstarter.com
....In Yip and Harold's canon, "Last Night" is without parallel. It moves beyond Arlen's usual blues into something more painful, less remedial, and Yip responds with a picture of that disillusioned world he would occasionally recommend in theory, to... (Read More)

Co-Writing

July 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Yip wrote over 400 songs with 48 collaborators, but of all those collaborators, Harold Arlen was his main man, with 111 songs, followed by Burton Lane at 42. I have had the pleasure of writing songs with Philip Shelley, Edward Rogers, Dave Rave,... (Read More)

Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe

July 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Song of the day: "Happiness is Just a Thing called Joe", from 1943 film, Cabin in the Sky. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" sung by Ethel Waters. Some remember Cabin in the Sky... (Read More)

Rehearsal #1

July 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Things are coming together really nicely. Great rehearsal with Tony and Rob. Both truly great and inspiring musicians, story tellers and musical historians. What a palette they both have!  (Read More)

Paris Is A Lonely Town, 1962

July 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Gay Purr-ee is an animated film musical from 1962, featuring the voice of Judy Garland as Mewsette, a beautiful white Turkish Angora. While she is idealistic and naive, she is kind and demure, and believes strongly in herself. Paris Is A Lonely Town... (Read More)

Song Prep: I'm Yours

July 17th - via: kickstarter.com
So many songs, whittling them down, breaking them up and then working on reconstruction. Luckily, i have Spencer's baby guitar that I am using which is proving quite liberating...can't get to precious with that sound! However, we sometimes get in to... (Read More)

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