Harold Arlen
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American composer of popular music (1905-1986)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905
- Died
- 1986
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Wizard of Oz
- Vocal selections from House of flowers
- The Wizard of Oz
- Rosemary Clooney sings the music of Harold Arlen
- Ben Bagley's Harold Arlen revisited
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- Total plays
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Harold Arlen (February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) Was an American composer of popular music. Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. His 1938 song "Over the Rainbow” was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America Biography Arlen was born Hyman Arluck, in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,567x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,950x
- TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions
· 2013 · cited 11,182x
- Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks
· 2012 · cited 10,970x
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Key facts
- Born
- Hyman Arluck , ( 1905-02-15 ) February 15, 1905, Buffalo, New York , U.S.
- Died
- April 23, 1986 (1986-04-23) (aged 81), New York City, U.S.
- Resting place
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- Occupation
- Composer
- Spouse
- Anya Taranda ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1937 ; died 1970 )
- Children
- Adopted his brother's son in 1985
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Encyclopedic overview
Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including "Over the Rainbow", which won him the Oscar for Best Original Song, he was nominated as composer for 8 other Oscar awards. Arlen is a contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the RIAA and the NEA.
Life and career
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