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The music managers Wolfgang Boss and Jon de Mello accepted the trophy in his stead. [25] A 2014 Pixar short film, Lava, features two volcanoes as the main characters. Kamakawiwoʻole's cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and his style of music were James Ford Murphy's partial inspiration for the short film. [26]
The 1997 film Face/Off featured a recording of "Over the Rainbow" by Olivia Newton-John. [73] In 2003, Brazilian singer Luiza Possi released a Portuguese version of the song under the title "Além do arco-íris (Over the Rainbow)", for the soundtrack of the Brazilian telenovela Chocolate com Pimenta. A cover of the original version was also ...
Ho always honored the military remembering his own years of military service. In 1963, he moved the Kāneʻohe Honey's to Waikīkī. After much success, and little room to grow, promoter Kimo Wilder McVay sought Don to play at a night club called Duke's owned by Duke Kahanamoku, where he caught the attention of record company officials.
The documentary is available to stream on YouTube free of charge. Nancy Sinatra, who discovered Don Ho for Reprise Records and TV producer George Slaughter participated in the project.
Publicity still showing music for The Wizard of Oz being recorded — ironically, for a deleted scene, the "Triumphant Return". The songs from the 1939 musical fantasy film The Wizard of Oz have taken their place among the most famous and instantly recognizable American songs of all time, and the film's principal song, "Over the Rainbow", is perhaps the most famous song ever written for a film.
He played and sang, one take, and it was over." [2] At the time, copies of the acoustic recording were made only for Kamakawiwoʻole himself and Bertosa. [3] The song was re-recorded the following year as an "upbeat Jawaiian version" for Kamakawiwoʻole's debut album Ka ʻAnoʻi, listed as "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World."
A significant portion of Zappa's discography consists of instrumental works, but many of these could be classified as modern classical or avant-garde music rather than rock. "Peaches en Regalia" (Hot Rats, 1969) "Eat That Question" (The Grand Wazoo) Sleep Dirt (1979 - reissues of this album featured overdubbed vocals on several tracks)
Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and later wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz, one of the earliest known "integrated musicals," for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for "Over the Rainbow."