― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
not the old sauced-up, wobbly-voiced let's-make-young-Liza-a-star Judy version
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JENP9OCUSYNX230I355IN9Q6S
― dan (dan), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Not really.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Not available on CD as far as I know, so this one's ripped from vinyl.
― Guymauve (Guymauve), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― todd (todd), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― applesider, Thursday, 8 December 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Guymauve (Guymauve), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
If you have ever lost a beloved pet and can listen to this song tear-free, you're a better man than I.
― Justin, Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
... two of my favourite artists, Harry's version is nothing special, Tiny Tim's is good but not great
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 December 2005 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trafalga, Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
wait, is there a chet atkins version?
― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hatch (Hatch), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― ilxor, Monday, 16 March 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
did tom waits ever do a version? feels like he ought to....
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 16 March 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Frank Wess do a bossa version on flute last week that wasn't too shabby.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 March 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently Tom Wopat does a good non-bathetic version in his cabaret act.
btw song is titled "Over the Rainbow"
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 March 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn't there some story that Yip Harburg didn't like it when Harold Arlen first played the melody for him? Said something like "That'll never be a hit!" or "Nobody will want to hear that!" The original melody, that is, I think it got changed along the way to the version we finally got to hear.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 March 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't remeber that one, but...
A time-honored story tells that the song was cut from the film after a preview, because MGM head Louis B. Mayer thought the song "slowed down the picture" and that "our star sings it in a barnyard". Harold Arlen, who was at the preview, and executive producer Arthur Freed lobbied successfully to get the song sequence reinstated.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 March 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that too. OK here's the story, it wasn't quite the melody, it was the arrangement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4805916.stm. Also here http://www.americansongwriter.com/2008/05/american-icons-yip-harburg/#printpreview
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 March 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to this eva cassidy bullshit
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Another vote for Bud Powell.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 23 March 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link