YIP HARBURG STAMP

In April, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new commemorative stamp honoring the great ASCAP writer Yip Harburg, best known for his lyrics for more than 600 popular songs, including "Over the Rainbow." Harburg joins many other ASCAP greats who have been honored with stamps, including Irving Berlin, Henry Mancini, Duke Ellington, Victor Herbert, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Meredith Wilson, and Frank Loesser, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Josh White, among others.