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'The Song Stays or I Go': How a Producer's Ultimatum Saved 'Over the Rainbow'

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Harold Arlen wrote the melody during a car ride down Sunset Boulevard, then spent months convincing Yip Harburg it wasn't too grand for a farm girl to sing.

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