Best Version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"?

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err, kermit?

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

bud powell, bitches!

― etc, Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Xpost - I think that's the "Rainbow Connection," unless there was a Kermit cover of SOTR that's escaped me.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

The Iz version makes an old song new.

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

The music on Taito C64/ Spectrum classic Rainbow Islands has a brilliant version of this song.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Harry Nilsson
Tiny Tim

... 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

David Bowie - Starman

― Trafalga, Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

god, i have 68 versions of this back home, nearly all of them are terrible, from israeli psytrance to bluegrass.

wait, is there a chet atkins version?

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Best still has to be Garland '39, but last summer I heard Patti LaBelle do one live that clocked in at 10-12 minutes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

best versions i've heard are j. garland and jimmy scott

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

the Jerry Lee one is awesome and sad.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Who did the version at the end of Aki Kaurismaki's film Ariel?

― Hatch (Hatch), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

You should all hear the 1994 German rave version by Marusha, it's stunning. I could maybe YSI it while I get home...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Nobody's mentioning Kylie?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i quite like the flaming lips version

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

The correct answer to the thread is "not Ronan Keating anyway, that's for sure".

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.mandypatinkin.net/IMAGES/cdotr.jpeg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

― 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

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