Tuesday, September 13, 2005

I would never have guessed...

Apparently, one man is responsible for such various classics as "That Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)," "Get Happy," "Over the Rainbow," "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues," "The Man That Got Away," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "Stormy Weather." The man who seems to have written  a goodly percent of Billie Holiday's catalogue was named Harold Arlen, and he was Jewish, and you have never heard of him, but the New Yorker wants to change all that.

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