Composer Burton Lane died Sunday at age 84. He had careers on Broadway and in Hollywood. He's best known for the scores of Finian's Rainbow and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. He wrote the music to songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser and Yip Harburg. His songs were performed by many stars. We hear a few of his tunes and hear clips from an interview done by Terry Gross in 1990.
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