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The 1997 film Face/Off featured a recording of "Over the Rainbow" by Olivia Newton-John. [74] 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 ...
The cut version — Over the Rainbow — was released in 2001 on the posthumous album Alone In Iz World. The cut version became a sleeper hit , after charting across Europe in 2010 and 2011 and in the meanwhile being featured in numerous film and TV soundtracks throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
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
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."
"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong on August 16, 1967. In April 1968, it topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom, [3] but performed poorly in the United States because Larry Newton, the president of ABC Records, disliked the song and refused to promote it.
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.
Katharine McPhee was the runner-up of the fifth season of American Idol, and received a record contract with 19 Recordings.After releasing "My Destiny" and a cover version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in 2006, McPhee started to work on her first album; "Over It" was written and recorded a few weeks before the album release in 2007. [2]
Over the Rainbow, a 2002 South Korean film; Over the Rainbow, a 1997 French film directed by Alexandre Aja; Over the Rainbow, a 2012 novel by Paul Pickering; Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a star in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS; Over the Rainbow, a star in Super Mario 64 DS (known as Wing Mario Over the Rainbow in Super Mario 64