(1873-08-18)August 18, 1873 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Died
January 24, 1963(1963-01-24) (aged 89) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Lyricist, librettist
Musical artist
Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Harbach collaborated as lyricist or librettist with many of the leading Broadway composers of the early 20th century, including Jerome Kern, Louis Hirsch, Herbert Stothart, Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin, and Sigmund Romberg. Harbach believed that music, lyrics, and story should be closely connected, and, as Oscar Hammerstein II's mentor, he encouraged Hammerstein to write musicals in this manner. Harbach is considered one of the first great Broadway lyricists,[1] and he helped raise the status of the lyricist in an age more concerned with music, spectacle, and stars. Some of his more famous lyrics are "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Indian Love Call" and "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine".
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Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies...
with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, OttoHarbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard...
Stokes (one of the Skillet Lickers fiddlers) "Let's Begin" - lyrics by OttoHarbach - from the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta "Life Upon the Wicked Stage"...
an EP by Baek Ji-young Good Boy, a 1928 musical by Herbert Stothart, OttoHarbach, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby "Good Boy" (song), a song by G-Dragon and...
his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, OttoHarbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and...
and organist Chad Harbach (born 1975), American writer OttoHarbach (1873–1963), American lyricist and librettist William O. Harbach (1919–2017), American...
(album), by Tony! Toni! Toné!, 1988 "Who?" (song), written by Jerome Kern, OttoHarbach, and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1925 "Who", by David Byrne and St. Vincent...
but also the lyrics of writers such as Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, OttoHarbach, and Oscar Hammerstein II. For example, Sondheim notes that the torch...
is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist OttoHarbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta. The song was sung in the Broadway...
Bambalina (Vincent Youmans, Herbert Stothart and Oscar Hammerstein II, OttoHarbach, 1923) Barbados (Charlie Parker, 1948) Barbara (Joseph Kosma and Jacques...
Fred E. Ahlert "Indian Love Call" (first published as "The Call") w. OttoHarbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml "It Had To Be You" w. Gus Kahn...
the New York Studio Players "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" (Karl Hoschna, OttoHarbach) — Billy Crudup/Sanjeev Ramabhadran "Looking at You" (Cole Porter) —...
with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by OttoHarbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Originally written for Mary Ellis, the song...
Egbert Van Alstyne, Erwin R. Schmidt & Loyal Curtis "D'Ye Love Me?" w. OttoHarbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Marilyn Miller in...
Song 1944 Johannes Brahms Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine 1958 OttoHarbach, Karl Hoschna The Curse of an Aching Heart 1961 Henry Fink, Al Piantadosi...
Frank Loesser Frank Loesser 1933 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" Jerome Kern OttoHarbach 1948 "So in Love" Cole Porter Cole Porter 1949 "Some Enchanted Evening"...
the Fiddle (musical), a 1931 Broadway production by Jerome Kern and OttoHarbach The Cat and the Fiddle (film), a 1934 adaptation the stage musical The...
Jerome Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, OttoHarbach and Hammerstein's Rose-Marie Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and Babes...
music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, OttoHarbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs,...
"Yesterdays" (1933 song), from the musical Roberta by Jerome Kern and OttoHarbach "Yesterdays" (Guns N' Roses song), a 1992 song from the album Use Your...
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