Guest: Ernie Harburg

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

freethinking lyricist Yip Harburg, who wrote “Over the Rainbow,” and many other songs. Listen to Yip himself singing “If I Only Had a Brain,” “Over the Rainbow,” “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and “Last Night When We Were Young.” Then we interview Yip’s son, Ernie Harburg, also an atheist, a scientist who is director of the Yip Harburg Foundation, about his father’s artistic life and social activism.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:56.0	living for today Yeah Somewhere
1:03.0	Over the rainbow
1:07.0	Way apart way up high.
1:11.6	There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
1:21.6	Somewhere over the rainbow, skies all over the rainbow
1:29.1	skies are blue
1:32.9	And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
1:46.1	That's Judy Garland, of course, and this is the 75th anniversary year of the Wizard of Oz.
1:53.1	And we began our very first broadcast of Free Thought Radio back in 2006 the same way,
1:59.9	and that we are doing it again today
2:01.7	because we are having a reunion
2:03.7	with Free Thought Radio's very first guest
2:06.7	later on today's show.
2:08.5	And I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor
2:09.7	and I do want to say we're marching out of March
2:12.3	as fast as we can
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