"(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow" compilation
Volume 2
updated version (track 2 has been replaced)
A collection of cover versions of the song "Over The Rainbow", written in 1938 by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and made famous by Judy Garland in "the Wizard of Oz".
Compiled and seeded to Dime by _tunic_ on December 29 2008
Updated version uploaded on January 4 2009
Tracklist:
201. Rainbow, 1980-05-15 Festival Hall, Osaka, JP
202. Bob Schneider and Mitch Watkins 2000-08-05 Cactus Cafe, Austin, TX
203. Shawn Colvin, 2001-08-09 The Mann Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
204. Rufus Wainwright, 2007-11-06 Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, PT
205. Rio Reiser, 1988-06-18 Platz der Republik, Berlin, DE
206. Afghan Whigs, 1999-02-24 Bohager's, Baltimore, MD
207. Buena Vista Social Club, 1999-11-22 Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ
208. Cartoons In Jazz, 2007-12-26 Sala Santa Cecilia, IT
209. Papa John Creach 1978-10-07 My Father's Place Roslyn, NY
210. Leon Russell and Edgar Winter Band, 1986-11-20 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
211. Tori Amos, 2005-06-28 Alte Oper, Frankfurt, DE
212. Moe, 2000-10-31 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA
213. Animal Liberation Orchestra, 2005-06-18 SB Historic Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
214. Michael Hurley and Forest Bloodgood, 2008-04-09 Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR
215. Jake Shimabukuro, 2007-11-13 Soho Bar & Restaurant, Santa Barbara, CA
216. Keith Jarrett, 1991-07-11 Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
217. Ingrid Michaelson, 2008-11-14 Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO
218. Sun Ra, 1990-07-17 Restaurant Kaudleuten, Zurich, CH
219. Impellitteri, 1988-07-17 Power Station, Tokyo, JP
220. Buckethead, 2006-03-16 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
221. Dave Brubeck Quartet, 2006-09-17 Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA
Notes on this volume:
-track 2 The artist I had originally included here has been on the NAB list since September. It is replaced with a alternate version by Bob Schneider and Mitch Watkins
-track 3 (Shawn Colvin) is a duet with her daughter
-track 5 (Rio Reiser) also features Blixa Bargeld and Marianne Rosenberg
-track 18 (Sun Ra) is a solo performance (a full band version will follow in a next volume)
-The .ffp file that was included in the torrent of Volume 1 was not correct, I have included a working .ffp file in the torrent for this volume (the .md5 file was fine).
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General Notes:
This project started in January 2008, when my sister asked me to look for a couple of versions of the song Over The Rainbow. Her baby twins fall asleep to this song every night, and she wanted to use it as background music for video compilations of them. So I searched Dime and some other sites (TTD, etree, Zomb, Archive.org), and was quite surprised with the wide variety of artists that have played this song during their live performances. Some of them have only played it occasionally, sometimes even as a short tease, for other artists it is the final song of their concerts every night. There's even artists that have named their band after this song! (or so I thought, Wikipedia tells a different story though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_(band) )
After listening to over a hundred versions, I got fed up with it and kept it aside until Christmas came near. In mid-December I searched the same sites again and found some more versions, and have now enough to fill 3 audio-CD's and a few more to continue with a fourth volume. If you know of an artist or alternative version that is not yet featured, please contact me and I'll include it in a future volume. Let's see if we can beat any of the compilations Fracas did! I would like to thank the tapers and uploaders of the shows I took these files from. I've listened to many artists I had never heard of before. Some of them I probably never will listen to again, but of others I would love to hear some more.
The following criteria were used:
- Artists may feature more than once if the versions are significantly different
- Teases are welcome, but must have a significant duration
- Sound quality must be good (preferably FM/SBD or good audience)
- No disturbances (loud clapping, screaming or other strange noises)
I used Audacity to edit some of the files (fade in and/or out, cut away banter or other songs). No equalizing or normalizing was done though, so there may be some volume differences between tracks. MP3Tag was used to tag the files. Trader's Little Helper was used to convert .shn files to flac-format, fix SBE errors and create the .ffp file. (So all files will be in flac-format, except if it was taken from a direct webstream (mp2))
It would be great if someone could spend some time to create artwork for these compilations, but please keep the original purpose in mind. Feel free to share this anywhere you like, but please keep it together with this original info-file, and hopefully some nice artwork. And please share it in lossless quality only!
If you want to find out more on the history of this song, here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Rainbow
Enjoy! But don't listen to it too much, it's very hard to keep this song out of your head once it has nestled itself inside your brain.
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