* Harold Arlen was also picture 1982 recipient of The Johnny Mercer Give, the SHOF’s highest honor
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Edward Jablonsi
Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues
Northeastern University Press
E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen, Julia Noonan
Over the Rainbow
Harper Collins Publishers
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
DVD
Judy Garland, James Mason
A Star Is Born (1954)
DVD
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Ada Brown, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter
Stormy Weather
20th Century Fox
DVD
Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Barbra Streisand, Harold Arlen, Mel Torme, Andre Previn, Tony Bennett
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen
Winstar
DVD
Harold Arlen
Hyman Arluck Chaim Arluck
Composer, Arranger, Pianist, Singer
(1905 - 1986)
Harold Arlen was a musical prodigy who left school to work as a singer, pianist, arranger, composer and who, by his teens, had formed a jazz trio. He had his first Broadway hit, “Get Happy” (1930), with Ted Koehler. They went on to write for Cotton Club revues and film, turning out “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” (1931), “I Got A Right To Sing the Blues” (1932), “Stormy Weather” (1933), and “Let’s Fall in Love” and “Ill Wind” (1934).
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Harold Arlen, born Hyman Arluck on February 15, 1905 in Buffalo, New York, was a leading composer of the Great American Songbook and one of Johnny Mercer’s main collaborators throughout his career. Arlen composed over 500 songs for films and theater productions, most notably composing songs for The Wizard of Oz.
“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” was featured in the 1944 Paramount Pictures film Here Come the Waves. The song was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to “It Might as Well Be Spring” by Rodgers and Hammerstein II.
The idea for “Accentuate the Positive” came about after Johnny’s publicity agent went to see a sermon that was based on maintaining a positive attitude and pushing the negative out of your life. Johnny thought that it was a colorful concept and phrase. He recorded the song himself and it became a number-one selling record.
“Blues in the Night” was featured in the 1941 film of the same name. The original title of the film was actually Hot Nocturne but it was changed to match the name of the Mercer and Arlen song. “Blues in the Night” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song, but lost to Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammers