Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Someday you'll wish upon a star...



painting by IT Arts



This rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by the Hawaiian singer IZ Kamakawiwo'ole always makes me cry.  Partly it's because he combines it with Louie Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World." Partly it's because the first time I heard it was in the closing credits of the movie "Philadelphia"  where Tom Hanks plays a lawyer who has AIDS.

Whatever it is, the poignancy gets me every time. Don't know whether the link to YouTube works, but here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg



Art by Nikki Smith

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