SONG
"I love this version of this song! The Wizard of Oz is a classic film :) Of course I knew this one already, but it had to make the cut really didn't it?!" - LC
Written by: Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
Producer: Uncredited
Label: MGM
FACTS
- It was written specifically for the movie The Wizard of Oz.
- The American Film Institute also ranked "Over the Rainbow" the greatest movie song of all time on the list of "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs".
- The song was initially deleted from the film after a preview in San Luis Obispo, because the MGM chief executive and the producer thought the song "slowed down the picture" and that "the song sounds like something for Jeanette MacDonald, not for a little girl singing in a barnyard". The persistence of associate producer Arthur Freed and Garland's vocal coach/mentor Roger Edens to keep the song in the picture paid off.
- This song became Judy Garland's signature song.
- Judy Garland is the mother of Liza Minnelli.
- Judy died of an accidental overdose in 1969, aged 47.
Recommended songs by this artist...
For Me and My Gal (1942)
The Trolley Song (1944)
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