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  2. Over the Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - Wikipedia

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    The original 1988 acoustic version of the song was released with the 1993 Facing Future album. [30] "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" reached No. 12 on Billboard ' s Hot Digital Tracks chart the week of January 31, 2004 (for the survey week ending January

  4. Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

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    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."

  5. Harold Arlen - Wikipedia

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    Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, [2] who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (lyrics by Yip Harburg ), including " Over the Rainbow ", which won him the Oscar ...

  6. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg) exemplifies the 20th-century popular 32-bar song. [1]The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.

  7. Somewhere over the rainbow - Wikipedia

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  8. Facing Future - Wikipedia

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    Facing Future is the second album by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, released in 1993.The best-selling album of all time by a Hawaiian artist, Facing Future combines traditional Hawaiian-language songs, hapa-haole songs with traditional instrumentation, and two Jawaiian (Island reggae) tracks.

  9. Yip Harburg - Wikipedia

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    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."