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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 ...
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
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 ...
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."
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."
Unlike previous albums, which consisted solely of cover songs, this release contained two original songs co-written by Cassidy. An acoustic album, Simply Eva , was released in January 2011. In March 2023, the album I Can Only Be Me was released, which featured new orchestrations by the London Symphony Orchestra . [ 38 ]
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Two singles were released from this album, the first being the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" which reached No. 11 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed for 6 weeks. The second single release was one of the three original songs on the album, "Let Me Be the One", which came in at No. 29.