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Who wrote the song somewhere over the rainbow? The music to Somewhere over the Rainbow was written by Harold Arlen; the lyrics were written by Edgar Yipsel (Yip) Harburg. But Julie Garden sang it. Arlen and Harburg collaborated on all the songs featured in the movie, The Wizard of Oz. Over the Rainbow won Academy awards for them both.
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Judy Garland Biography Judy Garland’s performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939) won her a special Oscar and gave her a theme song for the rest of her life: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Judy Garland was a child star: as a teen appeared in a series of cheerfully fluffy movies with fellow teen star Mickey Rooney, including Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) and Babes in ...
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I'm Always Chasing Rainbows I'm Always Chasing Rainbows. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows is a popular Vaudeville song. The music is credited to Harry Carroll, although the melody is actually adapted from Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin. The lyrics were written by Joseph McCarthy, and the song was published in 1917 and introduced in the Broadway show Oh, Look! which opened in March, 1918.
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- Who sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a ballad that has become one of the most popular movie songs of all time. Many people have sang the timeless tune over the years, but it was originally written for The Wizard of Oz film and Judy Garland’s character of Dorothy.
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Singin' in the Rain 1 Singin' in the Rain is sung mockingly by Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, in the rape scene in Stanley Kubrick 's film A Clockwork Orange (1971). 2  The Gene Kelly version was played during the end credits.
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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a song written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing he called Lucy—in the sky with diamonds. Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled LSD.
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Reginald Owen Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs Clifford Mills as a young actor and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play and thus Where the Rainbow Ends was born.
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- Neon Rainbow is a song written by Wayne Carson Thompson made famous by Memphis blue-eyed soul band, The Box Tops. From September 2009, Neon Rainbow was featured in the TalkTalk TV advertising campaign. The track is featured on Soul Deep, The Best of The Box Tops. The song starts with the lyrics The city lights, the pretty lights, They can warm the coldest nights and as they suggest, the song is about neon…. Play on youtube.
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- One of the five basic tastes is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 1 time.
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Over the Rainbow The song is number one on the  Songs of the Century  list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. The American Film Institute also ranked Over the Rainbow the greatest movie song of all time on the list of  AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs ..
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- Over The Rainbow by Judy Garland Songfacts. 1  Written for the movie The Wizard Of Oz, this song was used early in the film when Dorothy (played by Judy Garland) longs to escape her dreary life on the farm in Kansas. 2  The music was written by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Yip Harburg.
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Rainbow (band) Rainbow (band) Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) were an English hard rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with former Elf members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. In addition to lead singers Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White, the project consisted of numerous backing musicians.
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Rainbow Connection Rainbow Connection is a song from the 1979 film, The Muppet Movie, with music and lyrics written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher. The song was performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) in the film. Rainbow Connection reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1979, with the song remaining in the Top 40 for seven weeks total. Williams and Ascher received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 52nd Academy Awards.
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Over the Rainbow 1 Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles album Over the Rainbow peaked at #20 on the US R&B charts in 1966. 2  Jerry Lee Lewis had a number 10 hit single of the song on the American country music charts in 1980. 3  Matchbox reached #15 on the UK singles chart in 1980 with Over the Rainbow-You Belong to Me (medley).
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- 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' was originally performed by Elmo and Patsy Shropshire in 1979. It was written be Randy Brooks. See related links for more information about this silly, beloved and endearing Chistmas melody.
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Pink Sings âSomewhere Over the Rainbowâ at the 2014 Academy Awards Pink Sings ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ at the 2014 Academy Awards. Barbara DeFranco / March 2, 2014. share. Pink was on hand to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the classic film The Wizard of Oz at the 2014 Academy Awards as she sang the classic tune “ Somewhere Over the Rainbow .”. The full 2014 Academy Awards winners list. The 34-year old acrobatic singer kept it simple and serene as she took the stage to honor film legend Judy Garland and her offspring, including Liza Minnelli who was in the audience to commemorate the occasion. Check out the video above to see Pink’s performance of the classic tune.
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: The Voice Of Hawaii Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World. His version of Over the Rainbow has the poignancy of Judy Garland's and the shimmering vulnerability, but these days it's heard so often on TV and in the movies, a younger generation may only know Israel's version.
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Over the Rainbow The song is number one on the Songs of the Century list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. The American Film Institute also ranked Over the Rainbow the greatest movie song of all time on the list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.
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- Song Lyrics / Chart History / Artist Information. 1  The song Always was written and originally performed by Atlantic Starr. 2  Written by brothers Jonathan Lewis, David Lewis, and Wayne Lewis, all members of the band. 3  The band Atlantic Starr was formed in 1976 in White Plains New York.
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Maya Angelou In 1993, Angelou wrote and delivered a poem, On The Pulse of the Morning, at the inauguration for President Bill Clinton at his request. In 2000, she received the National Medal of Arts, and in 2010 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
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Judy Garland â Over The Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high. There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream, Really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star. And wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
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- I%27ll Be Over You by Toto Songfacts. 1  Toto guitarist Steve Lukather wrote this with Randy Goodrum, a popular Nashville songwriter who co-wrote Oh Sherrie and If She Would Have Been Faithful.... According to Goodrum, they came up with this after being asked to write a song for Julio Iglesias.
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Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner? The lyric was originally a poem called Defence of Fort McHenry written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. He wrote it after witnessing a British attack on Fort McHenry during the w … ar of 1812. The melody was originally a song called To Anacreon in Heaven written in 1778 by John Stafford Smith for a London drinking club.
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Across the Universe  (movie) Across the Universe (movie) Across the Universe is a musical movie made in 2007. It is directed by Julie Taymor and written by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement. The main characters are played by Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess.
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Rainbow Family The Rainbow Family was created out of the Vortex I gathering at Milo McIver State Park in Estacada, Oregon (30 miles south of Portland, Oregon) from August 28 to September 3, 1970. Inspired in large part by the first Woodstock Festival, two attendees at Vortex, Barry Plunker.
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Exile - Kiss You All Over This song proved to be Exile's only big hit in the pop rock market; Stokley left the band in 1979, and the remaining members took a country direction in the 1980s. It was written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.