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13 Feb 05 - 01:51 PM (#1408260) Subject: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: GUEST,GUEST: Linksfiend 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 |
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13 Feb 05 - 02:27 PM (#1408291) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: Chris Green 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? |
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14 Feb 05 - 08:41 AM (#1409149) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: Genie 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. :) |
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14 Feb 05 - 11:09 AM (#1409326) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: Geoff the Duck 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. |
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14 Feb 05 - 02:26 PM (#1409562) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: GUEST,Linksfiend 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? |
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14 Feb 05 - 08:28 PM (#1409950) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: GUEST The only other one that leaps to mind from the last ten years or so is the Eva Cassidy version? |
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14 Feb 05 - 08:37 PM (#1409964) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: Chris Green Bugger. Sorry, that was me. Forgot to feed the cookie monster... |
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15 Feb 05 - 11:07 AM (#1410475) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: M.Ted 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-- |
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16 Feb 05 - 06:53 PM (#1412468) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: GUEST Thanks for your suggestions. I did find what I was looking for. The artist was Toby Swann . I found a clip here . |
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17 Feb 05 - 03:15 PM (#1413217) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Somewhere Over The Rainbow From: GUEST,Toto Are you sure it wasn't The Replacements - they did a punk version. Hi speed, power chords etc. |