Comments on: Over the Rainbow – A Song That Goes from Generation to Generation http://edmascari.com/emblog/piano-playing/over-the-rainbow-a-song-that-goes-from-generation-to-generation/ The Ed Mascari Piano Studio Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:32:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ken Taylor http://edmascari.com/emblog/piano-playing/over-the-rainbow-a-song-that-goes-from-generation-to-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-1141 Ken Taylor Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:46:29 +0000 http://edmascari.com/emblog/?p=54#comment-1141 My current favorite version is from a new singer named Nicole Henry. She works with a great accompianist named Mike Orta. They do it as an upbeat latin number. My teenage daughter and her friends absolutely love this song. They ask for it in the car and sing along in their loudest voices. It is funny, because this is -the only- jazz tune that they will admit is good. It has truly universal appeal. Beautiful job on the track, Ed! My current favorite version is from a new singer named Nicole Henry. She works with a great accompianist named Mike Orta. They do it as an upbeat latin number. My teenage daughter and her friends absolutely love this song. They ask for it in the car and sing along in their loudest voices. It is funny, because this is -the only- jazz tune that they will admit is good. It has truly universal appeal.

Beautiful job on the track, Ed!

]]> By: Dave http://edmascari.com/emblog/piano-playing/over-the-rainbow-a-song-that-goes-from-generation-to-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-1135 Dave Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:42:35 +0000 http://edmascari.com/emblog/?p=54#comment-1135 Hi Ed, Like you, I've listened to a lot of different versions of this tune; it’s one of my favorites. But still my all-time favorite version is the original, from the movie. The simplicity of that version really seems to fit the tune and the sentiment, the little girl about to leave her familiar world. You write about the opening interval of an octave, denoting an element of hope. It’s interesting that another great movie, from the same year as the Wizard of Oz, used the same interval at the beginning of its theme, also denoting an element of hope. That movie? "Gone With the Wind". Dave Hi Ed,

Like you, I’ve listened to a lot of different versions of this tune; it’s one of my favorites. But still my all-time favorite version is the original, from the movie. The simplicity of that version really seems to fit the tune and the sentiment, the little girl about to leave her familiar world.

You write about the opening interval of an octave, denoting an element of hope. It’s interesting that another great movie, from the same year as the Wizard of Oz, used the same interval at the beginning of its theme, also denoting an element of hope. That movie? “Gone With the Wind”.

Dave

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