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The film version of "Over the Rainbow" was unavailable for purchase on record until the The Wizard of Oz soundtrack album was released by MGM in 1956 to coincide with the television premiere of the movie. [11] The soundtrack album has been re-released several times over the years, including a deluxe edition issued on Rhino Records in 1995. [12]
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 Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland, (pictured right with cairn terrier Terry) singing her hit "Over the Rainbow" in the film. In 1956 – the year that the film was first shown on TV – MGM Records released their own authentic 40-minute LP soundtrack album from the film. This album featured not only most of the songs, but also enough dialogue ...
Over the Rainbow (New York Unit album), 1992; Over the Rainbow (Rainbow album), 2012; Over the Rainbow (Jo Stafford album), 2004; Over the Rainbow (Connie Talbot album), 2007; Over the Rainbow (Livingston Taylor album), 1973; Over the Rainbow (A Compilation of Rarities 1981–1983), an album by the Virgin Prunes; Over the Rainbow (Nocera album ...
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 ...
The remaining track, "Over the Rainbow", is from the album The Other Side. The compilation album was certified Gold by the CRIA (50,000 units) in 2003. [3] It was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2001 and Platinum in 2008 for shipments in excess of one million copies. [4] In 2018, a twentieth anniversary edition of the album was released, titled ...
Over the Rainbow is singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor's third album, released in 1973. Its eleven tracks include nine of his own compositions, as well as two cover versions: " Over the Rainbow ", from The Wizard of Oz , and George Harrison 's " If I Needed Someone ".
Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a studio album by country music singer Willie Nelson, released in 1981.It features 1940s pop standards arranged by Nelson. The album's acoustic jazz instrumentation was also meant to play tribute to one of his heroes, Belgian gipsy jazz guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, who influenced Nelson's playing.