IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN

Created on 21/01/2002
Latest update on 13/03/2024

Artist: Ray Bolger
Author: Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg
Label: MGM
Year: 1939

The Scarecrow (along with Judy Garland) in film The Wizard Of Oz, where there's also an If I Only Had A Heart by Tin Man (Jack Haley) and an If I Only Had The Nerve by the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr).

Covers:

1988:

Harry Connick Jr.

1989:

Earl Klugh

2001:

Oblomow [vocal: Gerry De Mol]

2005:

Four Freshmen

2005:

Flaming Lips

2013:

Robbie Williams

First composed (by the same authors) as I'm Hanging On To You for Broadway musical Hooray For What in '37 but outvoted. The original version as If I Only Had A Brain was a bit tame compared to the version that made it and finally re-surfaced in '09.

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