ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 7, 1997 TAG: 9701070075
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Burton Lane, who composed the music for ``Finian's Rainbow,'' ``On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' and other stage and movie musicals, has died of a stroke at 84.
In a career that extended from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Hollywood, Lane, who died Sunday, collaborated with such lyricists as Ira Gershwin, E.Y. ``Yip'' Harburg and Alan Jay Lerner. He also won a Grammy and was nominated for Tony and Academy awards.
Working with Lerner in 1965, Lane won a Grammy and was nominated for a Tony for ``On a Clear Day,'' about a woman who recalls another life under hypnotism. ``On a Clear Day'' and ``Finian's Rainbow'' were both made into movies.
His first movie, ``Dancing Lady'' in 1933, was the film debut of Fred Astaire and featured the song ``Everything I Have Is Yours.''
Lane received an Oscar nomination in 1942 for ``How About You'' in ``Babes on Broadway.''
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