Norwegian pianist Rune Alver carefully unfolded the brittle sheet music and began ... the team behind all the songs in Wizard of Oz, including “Over the Rainbow.” Years later, Arlen recalled ...

That was Ella Fitzgerald with “Over The Rainbow,” the winner of ... that fostered some of the most well-known songs in all of American popular music. One of their earliest was a song ...

winning one for “Over the Rainbow”; and was one of the most prolific, successful and admired writers of popular songs in American history. Though he was unquestionably in the same elite class ...

The sheet music was dated 1910, and The Wizard of Oz premiered nearly 30 years later. But the melody hung there (“Somewhere over ... all of the songs that you know, except ‘Rainbow.’ ...