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Kevin Dunn And The Regiment Of Women - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Minimal version)

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Channel: CoverVerse · 2013 · Music

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From '' The Judgement Of Paris ''
Label: DB Recs – DB 56, Db 56
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1981

Tracklist
A1 911
A2 Ag
A3 Tootsie 2
A4 20,000 Years In Sing Sing
A5 Giovinezza
B1 Creep
B2 Saturn
B3 Private Sector
B4 Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Written-By – E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen

Written-By – Kevin Dunn (tracks: A1-B3)

Performer – Debbie Heidel, Kevin Dunn, Lenore Thompson, Terry Coburn

Producer – Kevin Dunn
Executive-Producer – Danny Beard

© 2010 Danny Beard/dB Recs
℗ 2010 Danny Beard/dB Recs


🎵 [SONG INFO]

"Over the Rainbow" (often referred to as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg.
It was written for the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale.
Over time it would become Garland's signature song.

In the film, part of the song is played by the MGM orchestra over the opening credits. About five minutes into the movie, actress Judy Garland playing the lead character, Dorothy, sings "Over the Rainbow" after unsuccessfully trying to get her aunt and uncle to listen to her relate an unpleasant incident involving her dog, Toto, and the nasty spinster, Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton). Dorothy's Aunt Em tells her to "find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble", prompting Dorothy to walk off by herself.
She muses to Toto "Someplace where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat, or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain.....", and begins singing the song. The famous sequence itself, as well as the entirety of the Kansas scenes, was directed (though uncredited) by King Vidor. The song itself was written about Douglasville, Georgia but the Kansas setting was more fitting for the song and the scenes that followed.

Original recording

Judy Garland first pre-recorded the song on the MGM soundstages on October 7, 1938, using an arrangement by Murray Cutter.
A studio recording of the song, not from the actual film soundtrack, was recorded and released as a single by Decca Records in September 1939.
In March 1940, that same recording was included on a Decca 78-RPM four-record studio cast album entitled The Wizard of Oz.

Other charting or significant versions

In singles and albums

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's album Facing Future, released in 1993, included a ukulele medley of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World".

Eva Cassidy recorded a version of the song for the 1992 Chuck Brown/Eva Cassidy album The Other Side.

Danielle Hope, the winner of the Wizard of Oz-themed BBC talent show Over the Rainbow, released a cover version of the song.

Kylie Minogue released a live cover version of the song.

Doo-wop group The Demensions charted the song to no.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960.

Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs' version topped the Australian music charts in 1965 and a later revision of the song also charted in 1974 following Billy Thorpe's blue's based revival of the song at the 1973 Sunbury Pop Festival.

Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles album Over the Rainbow peaked at no.20 on the US R&B charts in 1966.

Marusha charted on no.3 in the German single charts in 1994 with a dance-version of the song.

Katharine McPhee released a cover of the song and it peaked at no.12 on The Billboard Hot 100.

Jerry Lee Lewis had a number 10 hit single of the song on the American country music chart in 1980.

Erin Hasan released a version in her debut Album '8' in 2012

Nicholas David, contestant of the third season of U.S. rendition of The Voice, charted the song to no.96 in 2012, selling 48,000 copies of the song.

In films

Two years after the release of The Wizard of Oz, the tune appeared throughout the film I Wake Up Screaming (1941).

Jimmy Stewart sang a "drunken" comedic version of it on camera in The Philadelphia Story (1940).

An instrumental piano bar version can be heard in the classic Paul Newman film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth (1959).
It can also be heard in an ironic context in the Vincent Price horror film, Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972).

Director Nora Ephron used two different versions of the song in her movies Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail. The versions used are by Ray Charles and Harry Nilsson but only the latter one is included on a soundtrack release of the film.


🔗 [LINKS]

https://kevindunn.bandcamp.com/music

Available on bandcamp:
https://kevindunn.bandcamp.com/album/no-great-lost-songs-1979-1985
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5nhJdDfMlT0Gk6JuAWjU0t
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/no-great-lost-songs-1979-1985/365330395
Amazon Music:
https://www.amazon.com/No-Great-Lost-Songs-1979-1985/dp/B003EYDX2G
and Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/2898851

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