Somewhere Over the Rainbow

[struggle4progress]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU

[ellisonz]

1. I like the Bruddah Iz version.

But I'm biased: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

Aloha!

[ellisonz]

4. Dis one's for Gabby...

Gabby Pahinui that is. :)

[Tx4obama]

6. Check this one out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k&ob=av2n

This version has a VERY CLEAR video - makes it seem like you're right there and can touch everything through the screen.
At least that is how it looks on my screen :)
Maybe it was converted to HD or something.

:hi:

[ellisonz]

2. Way up high!

There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

It was called GDP :D

[Rowdyboy]

3. Very nice choice....

Sweetly appropriate

[ellisonz]

5. Indeed.

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can't I?


:hi:

[Tx4obama]

7. When Tim Russert died ....

at his memorial service at the end they played IZ's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
people we're exiting the building at the time and up in the sky was a DOUBLE RAINBOW.

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June 2008

Iz's "Rainbow" consoles Tim Russert mourners

At the end of broadcast journalist Tim Russert’s funeral service this week, the attendees left to “a ukulele version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow,’” said MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.

The song was, of course, the late Israel Kamakawiwoole’s magical recording of the tune—-which was a favorite of Russert's.

Outside the funeral, people were amazed to suddenly see the double rainbow in this photo—-a far rarer sight in Washington, D.C., than in Hawaii.

“If a soul can create a rainbow,” said Olbermann, “that was Tim smiling down at us.”

With all due deference to Mr. Russert, who was apparently a fine man--the rainbow, that was from Iz.

http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2008/6/20/russert_funeral

[ellisonz]

8. I remember that...

A part of mine deep down inside smiled :)