My Dailymotion Channel www.dailymotion.com/FerrellSo... "Over the Rainbow" is a ballad composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg.[1] It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz and was sung by actress Judy Garland[2] in her starring role as Dorothy Gale.[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became Garland's signature song.
Eva Cassidy recorded a version of the song for The Other Side (1992). After her death in 1996, it was included on the posthumous compilation Songbird (1998) and released as a single in 2001. It debuted at number 88 on the UK Singles Chart in February 2001 and climbed to number 42 in May, becoming Cassidy's first single to chart in the United Kingdom. In Scotland, it reached number 36, giving Cassidy her first top 40 hit in that region. It was her highest-charting song in the United Kingdom until 2007, when "What a Wonderful World" reached number one.[32] The song also reached number 27 in Ireland in December, becoming her only top 40 hit in that country.
Danielle Hope, the winner of the BBC talent show Over the Rainbow, released a cover version of the song as a digital download on May 23, 2010 and a single on May 31, 2010.[37] As it was recorded before a winner was announced, runners-up Lauren Samuels and Sophie Evans also recorded versions.[37]
The single was a charity record that raised money for the BBC Performing Arts Fund and Prostate UK
American singer Ariana Grande released a version of the song on June 6, 2017 to raise money at her benefit concert One Love Manchester after 22 people were killed in the Manchester Arena bombing at Grande's concert on May 22, 2017.
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Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion (2010)[45]
Dave Brubeck - Jazz at Storyville (1952)[2]
Ray Charles - Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul (1963)[2]
Nicholas David, a contestant on the third season of The Voice, recorded a version that went to number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2012 with sales of 48,000 copies.[46]
The Demensions recorded a version that reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960.[47]
Keith Jarrett - La Scala (1995)[2]
Stanley Jordan - Stolen Moments (1990)[2]
Katharine McPhee (2006)[48]
Glenn Miller (1939)[2]
Bud Powell (1951)[2]
Boyd Raeburn (1946)[2]
Art Tatum - The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Volume 6 (1953)[2]
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs's version topped the Australian music charts in 1965. Another version charted in 1974 after Thorpe's blues-based revival of the song at the 1973 Sunbury Pop Festival
James Stewart sings the song while carrying a drunken Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story.
Vincent Price sings the song to ironic effect at the very end of his 1972 cult classic fantasy-horror film, Dr. Phibes Rises Again.
Sam Harris performed the song during the first season of Star Search in 1983, ultimately winning the Male Vocalist category.
The song appeared at the end of the Scrubs episode "My Way Home".[50]
The original Garland recording of the song can be featured in the 2009 animated film 9.
The 2008 rpg OFF’s ending by Martin Georis featured a unknown version of the song.