'Over the Rainbow' Songwriter Yip Harburg on U.S. Postage Stamp

'Over the Rainbow' Songwriter Yip Harburg on U.S. Postage Stamp

What: First-day-of-issue ceremony for the Yip Harburg 37-cent
postage stamp
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041105/DCF007-q )

Who: David Solomon, Vice President, Area Operations, New York
Metro Area, U.S. Postal Service
David Failor, Executive Director, Stamp Services, U.S. Postal

Service
Ernie Harburg, Harburg's son and President of The Yip Harburg

Foundation
Sol Adler, Executive Director 92nd Street Y

When: 6 p.m. (EDT)
April 28, 2005

Where: 92nd Street Y
Kauffman Concert Hall
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128-1612

Background: The U.S. Postal Service honors E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, who wrote

the lyrics for more than 600 popular songs, including "Over
the Rainbow," created with composer Harold Arlen for the
movie "The Wizard of Oz." Stamp designer Ethel Kessler began
with a photograph taken by portrait photographer Barbara
Bordnick in 1978, then added other elements including a
rainbow and the lyric "somewhere over the rainbow skies are
blue" from Harburg's Oscar-winning song.

Performing Harburg's songs are Ben Harburg, Harburg's
grandson; Michael Feinstein, Joel Grey, A.J. Irvin, Anne
Jackson, Maureen McGovern, Kerry O'Malley, Catherine Russell,

John Sloman, Eli Wallach and Terri White.

CONTACT: Melissa Dodge, +1-202-268-5188, or cell: +1-202-360-1552, or Patricia McGovern, +1-212-330-3307, or cell: +1-917-837-0942, both of the U.S. Postal Service.

PRNewswire -- April 26

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PRN Photo Desk; photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: U.S. Postal Service

Web site: http://www.usps.com/

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