Someday I Will: Song of the Day: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Song of the Day: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

This is actually a combination of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World. The artist is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, sometimes known as Brudder IZ. He was a tremdously overweight Hawaiian singer who died a few years ago.

The guy's got a great voice, much better than the guy that did a version of this on American Idol last night.

The song has been featured on ER (the episode in which Mark Green died) and before that in a major television advertising campaign for the now defunct toys.com. It's been used in a bunch of other places, too. There's a Boston DJ that used to play it as the final song on his Sunday morning show every week.

The song is on the album Facing Forward, available at all fine music outlets. If you have an urge to buy something by Neil Diamond, I suggest you buy this instead.

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Quriltai said...: Geeza brutha, you have nice taste in music. I love IZ, and discovered him through this song.; April 13, 2008 at 9:19 PM
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