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Capacity by Big Thief. This album can be summed up in one word: I am sorry Phil had to go through this I'm sorry we all will have to someday.
I am glad for this album, for teaching me that Death is Real. Makes me want to drive thru the night. Out of Reach by Old Smile. Phases by Angel Olsen.
Super pretty indie pop from Seattle that tips its hat to Sufjan Stevens. This "distinctly New York record" finds the band looking for love with their signature psychedelic sound. At the start of the film, part of the song is played by the MGM orchestra over the opening credits. A reprise of it was deleted after being filmed.
An additional chorus was to be sung by Dorothy while she was locked in the Witch's castle, helplessly awaiting death as the hourglass ran out. However, although the visual portion of that reprise is presumably lost, the soundtrack of it survives and was included in the 2-CD Deluxe Edition of the film's soundtrack, released by Rhino Entertainment in In that extremely intense and fear-filled rendition, Dorothy cries her way through it, unable to finish, concluding with a tear-filled, "I'm frightened, Auntie Em, I'm frightened!
Another instrumental version is played in the underscore in the final scene, and over the closing credits. In September , a studio recording of the song, not from the actual film soundtrack, was recorded and released as a single by Decca Records. It was not until , when MGM released the true soundtrack album from the film, that the film version of the song was made available to the public.
The soundtrack release was timed to coincide with the television premiere of the film. Following the film's release in , the song became Garland's signature song and she would perform it for the next 30 years, until her death in She performed it without altering it, singing exactly as she did for the film. She explained her fidelity by saying that she was staying true to the character of Dorothy and to the message of really being somewhere over the rainbow.
In , Garland's recorded rendition of the film was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant". An introductory verse "When all the world is a hopeless jumble…" that was not used in the film is often used in theatrical productions of The Wizard of Oz and is included in the piano sheet music book of songs from the film.
Garland herself sang the introductory verse only once, on a radio broadcast of The Louella Parsons Show. Wehner, at this time an international well-known German Swing Artist, [15] also took over the vocals. It was recorded in , in Honolulu, in just one take.
He was given 15 minutes to arrive by Milan Bertosa. Israel was probably like pounds.
And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on. The song reached number 12 on Billboard ' s Hot Digital Tracks chart the week of January 31, for the survey week ending January 18, After only 2 weeks on that chart, it had already received gold status for having sold , copies. After her death in , it was included in her posthumously-released compilation album Songbird , released in and was released as a CD single in When released as a single, "Over the Rainbow" debuted at number 88 on the UK Singles Chart in February and climbed to number 42 in May, becoming Cassidy's first single to chart in the United Kingdom.
In Scotland, the cover was slightly more successful, reaching number 36 and giving Cassidy her first top 40 hit in that region. The publicity of the song helped push sales of the compilation album Songbird to number one on the UK Albums Chart in March Her performance of it at Blues Alley was published for the first time in January on her Simply Eva album. It was released by digital download on May 23, and a CD single was released May 31, These were both later made available for download on June 6, All three finalists appeared on the CD single's B-side: American singer Ariana Grande released the song on June 6, as a single to raise money as part of her benefit concert One Love Manchester , after 22 people were killed in the Manchester Arena bombing at Grande's concert on May 22, Beginning on June 7, the singer added the song to her Dangerous Woman Tour setlist for the remainder of that tour.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the song. For other uses, see Over the Rainbow disambiguation. It's so symbolic of everybody's dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why some people get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
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Over Rainbows and Rainier Lyrics: The angel Moroni asleep in the carport / With the newspaper under his arm / It seems I was late to deliver. "Over the Rainbow" is a ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz and was sung by actress Judy.
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