Philip Springer, Composer of Santa Baby: Other Songs and Career Highlights
The Last Legacy of E.Y."Yip"Harburg
"The Last Legacy of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg is a 10-song CD in a 6" x 9" hardback book of Liner Notes, telling the story of the unique songwriting collaboration between "Santa Baby" composer Philip Springer and the late, great E.Y. Harburg. Harburg wrote all of the lyrics in the iconic movie, The Wizard of Oz, of course including the Academy Award winning "Over the Rainbow"; "April in Paris," "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," "It's Only a Paper Moon," and countless other American standard songs. Springer was Harburg's final collaborator during the last years of Harburg's life. This endearing and fascinating documentation of these two wonderful artists' story is a must for fans of American Music History.
Available on iTunes with digital pdf booklet of album notes:
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For the hardback book with CD, please send note through this website.
Philip Springer was the great E.Y. "Yip" Harburg's last collaborator prior to Yip's death in 1981. Yip, of course known for writing the lyrics to "The Wizard of Oz", "Paper Moon", "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" and countless classics. Springer and Harburg wrote about 15 beautiful songs together.
"Time You Old Gypsy Man" is one of their most beautiful songs, called "a masterpiece" by the Steve Holden of the New York Times in December 1989. Many famous artists turned it down, owing to the meaning of the song; how fast time goes by and all of a sudden our lives are nearing the end....
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"Santa Baby"
Composer
Philip Springer
This website is dedicated to the works of Philip Springer, composer of the classic Christmas song, "Santa Baby". He started his professional career at age 23 as a staff composer in the iconic Brill Building at 1619 Broadway in New York City in the 1940s, and continued in a music career throughout the following decades and to this day.
Music supervisors looking for songs from the 40s, 50s and 60s may find the perfect background song a movie, television, video or other project. Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield and other notable recording artists recorded many of Springer's songs.
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