Harold Arlen

As a musician, there are probably a few occasions on which you told yourself, trying to cover a song or just listening to it, “I wish I had come up with that”... That’s pretty much how Harold Arlen makes you feel when you take a look at his mind-blowing catalogue. Had he only composed Over the Rainbow in 1938, he would have a claim to immortality, but he wrote the music to every song from The Wizard Of Oz, as well as a nice string of classics, including Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea or If I Only Had A Brain. Impressed yet? You should be...