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"Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. [1] It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland [ 2 ] in her starring role as Dorothy Gale .
The cut version — Over the Rainbow — was released in 2001 on the posthumous album Alone In Iz World. The cut version became a sleeper hit, after charting across Europe in 2010 and 2011 and in the meanwhile being featured in numerous film and TV soundtracks throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
"Over the Rainbow" is a special song for Clarkson. On TODAY in 2017, she revealed that she likes to sing that song to her daughter, River Rose , at night. "She'll always cut me off and go, 'Birds ...
Over the Rainbow Available on JSP Records 2011 release Swan Songs, First Flights: Her First and Last Recordings . [ 37 ] Songs marked with an asterisk (*) are not included on this release because they were discovered, remastered and released for the first time via the Judy Room's YouTube channel in 2017.
Arlen composed two of the defining songs of Judy Garland's career: "Over the Rainbow" and "The Man That Got Away", the last written for the 1954 version of the film A Star Is Born. [2] At her famous 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, after finishing a set of his songs, Garland acknowledged Arlen in the audience and invited him to receive an ovation.
Garland would close each episode by singing the song "Maybe I'll Come Back." The obscure novelty song, selected by Garland and Schlatter over CBS's objections (the network wanted her signature song "Over the Rainbow"), included the line "And President Coolidge is a cousin of mine." Garland as a running gag would substitute a different name for ...
Israel was probably like 500 pounds. And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on." A security guard gave Kamakawiwoʻole a large steel chair. "Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' He played and sang, one take, and it was over."
Rainbow slammed the former president for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort and more.