Harold Arlen - Essential Classics, Vol. 204: Harold Arlen (2024)
Artist: Harold Arlen
Title: Essential Classics, Vol. 204: Harold Arlen
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Essential Classics
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening, Vocal
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 34:59
Total Size: 189 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Essential Classics, Vol. 204: Harold Arlen
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Essential Classics
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening, Vocal
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 34:59
Total Size: 189 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Over the Rainbow (2:45)
2. If I Only Had a Brain - Extended Version (3:44)
3. Follow the Yellow Brick Road (0:49)
4. We're Off to See the Wizard (0:34)
5. If I Only Had a Brain (3:12)
6. Ding-Dong! the Witch is Dead (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) (0:47)
7. The Merry Old Land of Oz (1:52)
8. If I Only Had the Nerve (0:41)
9. The Wizard of Oz - Main Title (1:58)
10. It Really Was No Miracle (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) (0:59)
1. Optimistic Voices (1:09)
2. The Jitterbug (3:23)
3. If I Were King of the Forest - Extended Version (4:16)
4. Cyclone (2:17)
5. Come Out, Come Out... (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) (0:42)
6. As Mayor of the Munchkin City (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) (0:32)
7. We Welcome You to Munchkinland (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) (0:39)
8. As Coroner, I Must Aver (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) (0:31)
9. Ding-Dong! Emerald City (1:14)
10. Miss Gulch (2:45)
Pianist, singer and composer, born 15 February 1905 in Buffalo, New York, died 23 April 1986 in New York, New York.
Active as a pianist and singer since the early 1920s, Arluck began songwriting using the name Harold Arlen in the late 1920s.
During the first half of the 1930s he often collaborated with Ted Koehler with whom he composed songs such as Between The Devil And The Deep Blue See (1931), Stormy Weather (1933) and Let's Fall In Love (1933). For the second half of the 1930s he mostly collaborated with E.Y. Harburg. It was with Harburg that he composed the Wizard Of Oz soundtrack, containing the classic song Somewhere Over The Rainbow (1939).
Arlen's common songwriting partner during the 1940s was Johnny Mercer. Together they wrote hit songs such as Blues In The Night (1941), One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (1943) and Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (1944). Although he was less active in later years, he successfully remained composing well into the 1970s.
Harold Arlen was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.
Active as a pianist and singer since the early 1920s, Arluck began songwriting using the name Harold Arlen in the late 1920s.
During the first half of the 1930s he often collaborated with Ted Koehler with whom he composed songs such as Between The Devil And The Deep Blue See (1931), Stormy Weather (1933) and Let's Fall In Love (1933). For the second half of the 1930s he mostly collaborated with E.Y. Harburg. It was with Harburg that he composed the Wizard Of Oz soundtrack, containing the classic song Somewhere Over The Rainbow (1939).
Arlen's common songwriting partner during the 1940s was Johnny Mercer. Together they wrote hit songs such as Blues In The Night (1941), One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (1943) and Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (1944). Although he was less active in later years, he successfully remained composing well into the 1970s.
Harold Arlen was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.
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