Active Years: 1905 - 1986

Position: American composer.

Career Highlights: Stormy Weather, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939).

Career Totals: Many wonderful tunes still hummed the world over.

Scouting Report: Harold Arlen began his music career when he joined the choir at the synogogue where his father was a cantor. He then became a pianist, working on lake steamboats and playing in night clubs. He worked in New York as a jazz singer, an arranger, and finally a composer.

Teammates and Contemporaries: Ted Koehler, Ira Gershwin, Leo Reisman, Cole Porter.

Fun Statistic: Arlen wrote the song “Tatoo’d Lady” which was Groucho Marx’s theme song.