Over the Rainbow
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Nov 2, 2026
Bill StrawGUEST
Well, when we got involved, really, about a year after she died to the day, really, or one day off, we entered into an agreement with her parents to market her.
Bill StrawGUEST
And the plan had always been to do a kind of an anthology because she had Blues Alley she had quite a few there was a solo tracks that went on Eva by Heart there was her version of Over the Rainbow which had been on her duet album with Chuck Brown called The Other Side that had come out in 92 so we figured we had a one time chance to load up and create a super album on an unknown artist and The plan, if you can call anything a plan until after it works, is that it would be a strong enough album that the people that initially got on board would still be there when it hit critical mass.
Bill StrawGUEST
And we figured that would take a couple of years.
Bill StrawGUEST
It turned out it took about two and a half years.
Sarah VaughanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you.
Sarah VaughanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high That I heard of once In a lullaby Somewhere over The skies are blue And the dreams That I dare to dream Really Really do come true Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are falling Where troubles melt like lemon drops Way above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me birds fly over the rainbow why why can't I Someday I 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 put me Somewhere, somewhere over there Bluebirds fly, birds fly, over the rainbow, high, little, high.
Sarah VaughanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The evening breeze caressed the trees.
Sarah VaughanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tenderly The trembling trees Embrace the breeze Breeze Breeze Thank you Tenderly Then you and
Sarah VaughanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
my love is a prelude A prelude to a kiss.
Joe PerilloHOST
Okay, let me tell you what I played in that set.
Joe PerilloHOST
Started off with the tune, Dancing in the Dark, then we heard Over the Rainbow, then I played Tenderly, and I ended that set with the tune, Prelude to a Kiss.
Joe PerilloHOST
And you are listening to vocalist Sarah Vaughan from her 1995 Polygram Verve Records compilation recording titled Jazz Masters 42.
Dan LiebkeHOST
Tracy kisses Mike.
Dan LiebkeHOST
And she also, at one point, she starts singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Dan LiebkeHOST
And it's kind of fun to think that that was a very contemporary song at the time because it was written the year before for The Wizard of Oz.
Dan LiebkeHOST
A pop song, actually.
Denis WalterHOST
And I did a function for Vision Australia earlier this week.
Denis WalterHOST
and spoke about some of the moments on that particular television presentation on Christmas Eve, how I was absolutely in awe of his performance at Carols by Candlelight doing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Denis WalterHOST
It was superb.
Denis WalterHOST
But we might get a bit of most people I know up and running, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, shortly.
Joey ChanelHOST
Gabby, you go Gabby, Gabrielle, Gabby, and then you're like, I smell cigarettes.
Joey ChanelHOST
and my sister's name's Abby, like your sister, and I think that you were trying to talk about Abby because then the definitive name Matt came out, and March, and then the songs you're talking about.
Joey ChanelHOST
And then I shared the story with you that my sister lost someone very special to her who was a huge smoker.
Joey ChanelHOST
His name was Matt, and March was significant to them, but I didn't know why at the time, and I had to talk to her, and then she put the pieces together.
Joey ChanelHOST
She encouraged me to sing and
Amy WechselGUEST
I kept hearing the singing, I remember.
Joey ChanelHOST
You kept saying it, and you said a bunch of songs that I wrote down that were significant.
Joey ChanelHOST
They weren't the one song that has been consistent with her, which I'm going to tell you about that story, but you might have written it down after.
Marlene StemmeHOST
And he's like, Kansas? Kansas? And he considers and says, nah.
Marlene StemmeHOST
And through that scene and kind of like coming into play more and they're playing over the rainbow, which continues through the rest of the episode.
Marlene StemmeHOST
So it's just, or maybe it's at the end of that.
Marlene StemmeHOST
It's in that scene once you kind of figure out that that's the reference for this dream.
Marlene StemmeHOST
And then for the very end, it's kind of bookended with Chris because we started with his radio show at the beginning and now he's philosophizing about everyone having a dark side.
Marlene StemmeHOST
And he says, you have to face the darkness and quotes Nietzsche, give that old dark night of the soul a hug and how the eternal yes.
Marlene StemmeHOST
And then we have over the rainbow continue to play until the end of the scene.
Marlene StemmeHOST
And that is the end.
SarahHOST
I really want to go down to see that.
SarahHOST
I wouldn't even mind just going to see, because I guess during the day, every day they play, what's the Somewhere Over the Rainbow thing? Wizard of Oz.
MattyPANELIST
Yeah, but I want to see Metallica.
SarahHOST
I know you do.
Spike SlawsonGUEST
you used that as an example
Michael ClarkHOST
man because my wife who was with me at the Fiddler's Green show in Colorado she'd never heard or seen you guys before and when you guys did Somewhere Over the Rainbow and her music taste is it's contemporary normie stuff man like late 80s early 90s contemporary she was smiling from ear to ear when she heard Somewhere Over the Rainbow laughing
Spike SlawsonGUEST
I'm glad to hear it.
Michael ClarkHOST
Fucking converted her.
Frank StoneHOST
His voice fit that band.
Frank StoneHOST
You won't hear him singing Silent Night or Somewhere Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz and making a Christmas album or anything.
Frank StoneHOST
But for that band and those tunes, it worked.
Frank StoneHOST
The band is, if you know this one, Huey Lewis and the News.
AlexHOST
I will note that when he has his automatons play music, it's, in some cases, well-known or somewhat well-known songs.
AlexHOST
But interesting, did you, going and watching these, did you ever in your wildest dreams think that both movies would use Somewhere Over the Rainbow as the main theme song for both movies?
Aaron PollyeaHOST
I did not expect that.
Aaron PollyeaHOST
now it's it's surreal it's surreal like him going down the river sticks and somewhere over the rainbow is playing
AlexHOST
it plays over both credits of both films and at the end like they they say thank you to whatever it doesn't appear Like it's weird.
AlexHOST
I don't think they paid for the rights to use them because there's no soundtrack.
AlexHOST
And then they just recorded their own versions.
AlexHOST
Yeah.
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