Somewhere over the rainbow / H. Arlen, Y. Harburg and J. Garland (new take)

- https://open.spotify.com/artist/5jFAU...
-   / homonnai-zsolt  
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inspired by Tommy Emmanuel's version
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Újra nekiugrottam hát. Az út a fontos, nem a cél, ahogy mondják-. 😊 Csiszoltam az elmúlt hetekben. Nehéz darab, de gyönyörű, megéri foglalkozni vele. Köszönöm, ha belehallgatsz.
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First off, thank you for watching my cover.
I have kind of chiselled this piece, tried to perfect it as much as I could. Because I feel I owe it to this beautiful song and everyone involved in its creation. Anyway, this is the most I can do for now. No waterfall harmonics, but at least it's a bit more OK for me. And now a little information about the song and its background. The source is wikipedia.
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Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became Garland's signature song.
About five minutes into the film, Dorothy sings the song after failing to get Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and the farmhands to listen to her story of an unpleasant incident involving her dog, Toto, and the town spinster, Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton). Aunt Em tells her to "find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble". This prompts her to walk off by herself, musing to Toto, "Someplace where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat, or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain", at which point she begins singing.

Composer Harold Arlen and lyricist Yip Harburg often worked in tandem, Harburg generally suggesting an idea or title for Arlen to set to music, before Harburg contributed the lyrics. For their work together on The Wizard of Oz, Harburg claimed his inspiration was "a ballad for a little girl who... was in trouble and... wanted to get away from... Kansas. A dry, arid, colorless place. She had never seen anything colorful in her life except the rainbow". Arlen decided the idea needed "a melody with a long broad line".

By the time all the other songs for the film had been written, Arlen was feeling the pressure of not having the song for the Kansas scene. He often carried blank pieces of music manuscript in his pockets to jot down short melodic ideas. Arlen described how the inspiration for the melody to "Over the Rainbow" came to him suddenly while his wife Anya drove:

"I said to Mrs. Arlen... 'let's go to Grauman's Chinese ... You drive the car, I don't feel too well right now.' I wasn't thinking of work. I wasn't consciously thinking of work, I just wanted to relax. And as we drove by Schwab's Drug Store on Sunset I said, 'Pull over, please.' ... And we stopped and I really don't know why—bless the muses—and I took out my little bit of manuscript and put down what you know now as 'Over the Rainbow.'"

The song was originally sung in A-flat major. Arlen later wrote the contrasting bridge section based on the idea of "a child's piano exercise". In the movie, a renowned Stradivarius violin was used in the accompaniment.
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Az Over the Rainbow, vagy Somewhere Over the Rainbow Judy Garland 1939-es slágere az Óz, a csodák csodája című filmből. Garland legnagyobb slágerének tekintik, a dal 1939-ben elnyerte a legjobb eredeti dal Oscar-díját, emellett még abban az évben három másik előadó is lemezsikerre vitte. Mára klasszikussá vált, 2017-ben a Kongresszusi Könyvtár felvette az USA hang-értéktárába. Számos előadó (pl. Eva Cassidy, Cliff Richard) a későbbiekben is feldolgozta.

Története
A dalt eredetileg Harold Arlen zeneszerző és Yip Harburg szövegíró írta a film számára. Érdekessége, hogy a filmből csaknem kimaradt, ugyanis az MGM vezetői úgy vélték, hogy lelassítja a film ütemét. Arthur Freed társproducer azonban megfenyegette a vezetőket, hogy ha kiveszik a betétdalt, ő maga is kilép a projektből. Erre Mayer azt mondta, hogy hagyják benne azt az „átkozott dalt”, végül is nem bánt senkit. A dalt 2001-ben a National Endowment for the Arts és az Amerikai Hanglemezgyártók Szövetsége által kiírt szavazáson a 20. század legjobb amerikai dalának választották.
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lyrics:
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I 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
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

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

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