"(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow" compilation
Volume 3

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 January 6 2009


Tracklist:

301. Leftover Salmon & Friends, 2000-08-19 Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garretsville, OH
302. Wank, 2003-10-18 Higher Grounds Coffee House, Hollywood, CA
303. Loose Ties, 1993-08-08 Rockygrass BGF, Lyons, CO
304. Global Kryner, 2008-11-28 Kongresshaus, Bad Lippsringe, DE
305. Jerry Lee Lewis, 1986-02-28 Palomino Club, North Hollywood, CA
306. Jefferson Starship, 1992-06-14 Theatre Of The Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
307. Keith Richards, 1985-07-12/13 Learning The Game Sessions
308. Marshall Crenshaw, 1992-06-03 Bimbo's, San Francisco, CA
309. Jewel, 2008-03-26 Northern Lights Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
310. Richard Thompson, 2007-12-08 Carriage House Theatre, Saratoga, CA
311. Soulive, 2000-8-12 BerkFest (Early Set), Great Barrington, MA
312. Rainbow, 1979-11-16 Denver, CO
313. Tim Palmieri, 2008-04-30 BAR, New Haven, CT
314. Tommy Emmanuel, 2008- 02-09 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
315. Joe Jackson, 1999-08-11 Joe's Pub, NYC, NY
316. Stanley Jordan, 1994-10-30 Jazz Jamboree Festival, Warsaw, PL
317. Keith Jarrett, 1982-10-23 Staatsoper, Hamburg, DE
318. Les Paul, xxx-xx-xx Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
319. Jeff Beck, 2006-09-13 Hampton Beach Casino, NH
320. Smashing Pumpkins, 1993-10-03 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
321. Phish, 1998-08-09 Virginia Beach Amphitheatre, VA
322. Eric Clapton, 2001-12-11 Budokan Theater, Tokyo, JP


Notes on this volume:
-track 5 (Jerry Lee Lewis) This is a different version than the one on the official release The Complete Palomino Club Recordings
-track 9 (Jewel) This is an a cappella version, the version on Volume 1 features a symphonic orchestra
-track 18 (Les Paul) The exact date is unknown, the info file only states "Between 1996 and 2002" but does give extremely detailed information that none of the set is officially released. I think I did get this from Dime last year, but the bot list does not list it.
-track 21 (Phish) This is a different (non-theremin) version as on Volume 1. It is an audience recording (SBD patches are against their taping policy).
-track 22 (Eric Clapton) This is a different version as featured on Volume 1 (without the Impressions)

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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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