over the rainbow

[mandomaybe]

I was listening to my favorite radio station today, and caught a great interview with Pete Seeger. He had a good anecdote or two about Somewhere over the Rianbow. I thought, hmm, that would make a good mando tune. Right now all I have is the basic melody, playing it in C, repeating it up an octave, but I'd love to hear of any good recordings/arrangements out there. Thanks!

[melodicdreams]

Dave Peters played it with Kelly Lancaster. I have a few different live recordings of it.

[luckylarue]

Check out Tone Poems 2 w/ Grisman and Martin Taylor. They do it in Eb, I believe.

[wichitamando]

My favorite arrangement is by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. It's on the album "Facing the Future". Granted it's on a uke, not a mando. At least it's not a banjo right... He had an incredible voice, besides being a great uke player.

Amazon.com has a decent sound clip of it. It was also on the closing credits of Meet Joe Black.

One of these days I'm going to remember to learn to play it.

[AlanN]

Reischman did a gorgeous solo version of this, very lovely voicings.

[mando bandage]

My favorite arrangement is by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.

Mine too. It's also on the closing credits of Finding Forrester where it seques into What A Wonderful World by Louie Armstrong, which is an appropriate musical metaphor for a very good movie, BTW

R

[Jim Garber]

Jethro on Tea for One for the chord-melody solo version. Barry Mitterhoff does it on Silk City as part of the Wizard of Oz Medley.

Jim

[swinginmandolins]

Evan Marshall on Mandolin Magic does a great duo style version.

[Lefty&French]

You can find a Butch Baldassari version :
Butch Baldassari Trio "American Portraits"
SoundArt Recordings.
Some tabledit files too...

[Lefty&French]

...or

[Perry]

I agree the Reischman chord-melody version is very nice indeed. It's tabbed out in the tabedit files

http://www.mandozine.com/music....submit= (http://www.mandozine.com/music/search_results.php?searchfor=rainbow&tuneselectby=C&mandolevel=&category=&songkey=&artist=&transcriber=&sortby=T&sortorder=A&submit=)

[Lefty&French]

Sorry, I forgot to say : Reischman's was my first attachment...
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[JimRichter]

If I remember correctly, Tony Williamson does it as part of a medley on Across the Grain.

Jim

[pickinpete]

My favorite arrangement is by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.

Mine too. #It's also on the closing credits of Finding Forrester where it seques into What A Wonderful World by Louie Armstrong, which is an appropriate musical metaphor for a very good movie, BTW

R
Thats a popular version...I think its on the soundtrack of "50 first dates" also.

[Amandalyn]

Barry Mitterhoff does it on Silk City and a whole "OZ" suite of tunes- really cool.

[Dan Cole]

Best vocal version is IMO by Eva Cassidy.