Profile: Songwriter Harold Arlen

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STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
02-15-2005
Profile: Songwriter Harold Arlen

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

The songwriter Harold Arlen was born 100 years ago today. He's not as well known as some of his contemporaries like Irving Berlin, but you probably know his songs, as Jeff Lunden reports.

JEFF LUNDEN reporting:

Harold Arlen isn't exactly unsung. He wrote the music for this.

(Soundbite of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow")

Ms. JUDY GARLAND: (Singing) Somewhere over the rainbow way...

LUNDEN: And you know this tune.

(Soundbite of "Stormy Weather")

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