Name:
Harburg, Yip

Songs written or composed

Brother Can You Spare A Dime

Also known as:
Parnose (Berk)
Author:
Harburg, Yip
Composer:
Gorney, Jay
Subject:
Depression

Recordings

On album:
W-024(a) (Paved With Gold Starring Gary & Janice Waldman)
Track ID:
23700
Vocal:
Waldman, Gary
Vocal:
Waldman, Janice
Artist:
Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Piano/Conductor/Arranger:
Delfin, Jon
First line:
They used to tell me I was building a dream,
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Sung with "Vi Nemt Men Parnuse - From "Paved With Gold"
Language:
English
On album:
B-069(B) (Coming of Age/ Ballad of a Beatnik Bubbie/ Phyllis Berk)
Track ID:
35162
Vocal:
Berk, Phyllis
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
G-013(c) (The Golden Land, a joyous new musical Original Cast Album)
Track ID:
2615
Vocal:
Berk, Phyllis
Artist:
Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Orchestration:
Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח
First line:
They used to tell me I was building a dream,
Language:
English
On album:
R-042(a) (Eleanor Reissa Going Home Gems of Yiddish Song)
Track ID:
2616
Vocal:
Reissa, Eleanor
Piano:
Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
First line:
They used to tell me I was building a dream,
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Vu Nemt Men Parnose/ Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
Language:
Yiddish