Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Subject: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: GUEST,GUEST: Linksfiend
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 01:51 PM

I'm looking for a remake of Somewhere Over The Rainbow from the 80's (or maybe even the early 90's) that was kinda New Wave-ish. Does anyone remember the group?

I'm having a hard time finding it among the hundreds of results at amazon.

Thanks,
Linksfiend

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: Chris Green
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 02:27 PM

You're not thinking of John Martyn's version are you? It's on his album Sapphire (1984) and also on his Live at the BBC album (which I think might be deleted now.) Fretless bass, electric piano and sax ring any bells?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: Genie
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 08:41 AM

If you're using a search box to find it, try just "Over The Rainbow." That's the actual title (of the Harburg-Allen song that Judy Garland sang), and it may be listed on Amazon that way. Adding the "Somewhere" might throw off the search engine if amazon.com has it listed by the original title. :)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:09 AM

http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=94377&
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Are A Drag
Fat Wreck Chords 586
Released on May 18, 1999

Which also contains an MP3 download of that specific track.
I found it by usin Google search engine and entering "over the rainbow punk" as a search.
That said my preferred search engine is
http://vivisimo.com/ because it "clusters" results into ones with a similar content.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: GUEST,Linksfiend
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 02:26 PM

There might have been Fretless Bass, but I don't think there was any sax.

It wasn't punky at all. There were a lot of synthesizers. It was almost Depeche Mode-esque sounding.

I was reading this article on Harold Arlen in the Buffalo News, which made me remember the remake.

None of the groups names listed on Amazon triggered my memory though.

Any other thoughts?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 08:28 PM

The only other one that leaps to mind from the last ten years or so is the Eva Cassidy version?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: Chris Green
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 08:37 PM

Bugger. Sorry, that was me. Forgot to feed the cookie monster...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: M.Ted
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 11:07 AM

Depending on what you think of as new-wavish, there was (or is) an amazing heavy metal version of it by Chris Impelliteri, from 1988, and on his album, "Stand in Line"--for some reason, people seem to think that it was Yngwie Malmsteen, or Steve Vai, or Joe Satriani, and it apparently is plastered all over the file sharing networks with some or all of those names on it---the CD is hard to find, and expensive(an import, at least in the US) but still in print--

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 06:53 PM

Thanks for your suggestions. I did find what I was looking for.
The artist was Toby Swann . I found a clip here .

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
From: GUEST,Toto
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 03:15 PM

Are you sure it wasn't The Replacements - they did a punk version. Hi speed, power chords etc.