Harold Arlen tomorrow night

Tomorrow night at The Blue Note in Manhattan I am going to a Harold Arlen celebration. His name is very much unknown although many people do in fact know his classic works. Arlen wrote the music for The Wizard of Oz, as well as "I've Got The World On A String," "Blues In The Night," "Let's Fall In Love," "Stormy Weather," "That Old Black Magic," "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive," "Come Rain Or Come Shine," "It's Only A Paper Moon," "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road," "The Man That Got Away," and countless other songs. Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Lena Horne sung many, many songs he worked on. Try Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book CD set for an excellent introduction to his superb brilliance. We were lucky to have Arlen; he passed away in 1986 and is buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.