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The song then ends, not on a note of resignation, but with anger – repeating the beginning (as is usual for Broadway songs), an octave higher, but with a significant change: the friendly "Brother, can you spare a dime?" is replaced with the more assertive "Buddy, can you spare a dime?"
Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and later wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz, one of the earliest known "integrated musicals," for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for "Over the Rainbow."
The pair's most famous song was "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," based on a lullaby that Gorney learned as a child in Russia. It first appeared in the 1932 Shubert production of New Americana and became the anthem of the Great Depression.
Abney Park Band in Torrance California on February 25, 2017. Abney Park is a steampunk band based in Seattle.The band is named after an iconic gothic cemetery, the Abney Park Cemetery in London where Robert Brown, the founder of the band, lived and studied for a period in 1988.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in New York City, Gorney was one of three children of Jay Gorney, [2] the Polish-born composer who wrote the music for the song about America's Great Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" [1] Her family is Jewish. [3]
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"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" One of the best known American Depression-era songs, it was written in 1930 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney. The song was part of the 1932 musical Americana. "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" Written by jazz musicians Melvin "Sy" Oliver and James "Trummy" Young.
The title of the episode and the plot, to a certain extent, is a reference to the common expression "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", a song of the Great Depression that has been recorded multiple times by artists since. [4] Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp can be seen among the bums.