but then, yip put in something which makes it a yip song. he said, "and the dreams you dare to dream really do come true." you see? and that word "dare" lands on the note, and it's a perfect thing, and it's been generating courage for people for years afterwards, you know? judy garland: [singing] somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. ernie harburg: that's the way that the whole score came. amy goodman: was it a hit right away? ernie harburg: no, it wasn't. comethis was supposed to be answer, mgm's answer to snow white and the seven dwarves, and of about 10 major critics at that time when the wizard of oz came out, i would say only two liked the show. the other eight said it was corny, that it was heavy, that judy garland was no good, and so forth. oh, yeah. you could read again in the book, who put the rainbow on the wizard of oz?, by harold meyerson and ernie harburg. but it persisted, you know? and then, in 1956, when television first started saturating the nation amy goodman: