{"id":210,"date":"2008-09-08T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jinglicio.us\/?p=210"},"modified":"2008-09-08T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:44:36","slug":"50-first-dates-over-the-rainbowwhat-a-wonderful-world-israel-iz-kamakawiwoole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/movies\/50-first-dates-over-the-rainbowwhat-a-wonderful-world-israel-iz-kamakawiwoole\/","title":{"rendered":"50 First Dates &#8211; Over the Rainbow\/What a Wonderful World, Israel &#8220;Iz&#8221; Kamakawiwo&#8217;ole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s medley rendition of <em>Over the Rainbow<\/em> and <em>What a Wonderful World<\/em> has a become a hugely popular song given the mellow vocals and sweet ukulele.  <em>50 First Dates<\/em> uses this song to cap an emotional happy ending, as have other movie including: Finding Forrester (2000).<\/p>\n<p><em>Over the Rainbow<\/em> was written by Harold Arlen (music) and E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) in 1938 and made famous by <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>.  Meanwhile, <em>What a Wonderful World<\/em> was originally written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss.  The song was custom-made for Louis Armstrong who then made it a timeless lullaby.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Gentle Giant, Israel, was a major force in Hawaiian music.  His commercial success beginning in the 1990&#8217;s brought music listeners &#038; interest beyond the Hawaiian Islands.  Iz passed away in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Get <em>Over the Rainbow\/What a Wonderful World<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=MRjSEIak1Qo&#038;offerid=146261&#038;type=3&#038;subid=0&#038;tmpid=1826&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D6920352%2526id%253D6920356%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30\" onMouseOver=\"window.status=&#039;iTunes Store&#039;; return true;\" onMouseOut=\"window.status=&#039;&#039;; return true;\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"15\" width=\"61\" alt=\"Israel Kamakawiwo&#39;ole - Facing Future - Somewhere Over the Rainbow \/ What a Wonderful World\" src=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/images\/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/piwEWjChwcI\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/piwEWjChwcI\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s medley rendition of Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World has a become a hugely popular song given the mellow vocals and sweet ukulele. 50 First Dates uses this song to cap an emotional happy ending, as have other movie including: Finding Forrester (2000). Over the Rainbow was written by Harold Arlen (music) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/movies\/50-first-dates-over-the-rainbowwhat-a-wonderful-world-israel-iz-kamakawiwoole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;50 First Dates &#8211; Over the Rainbow\/What a Wonderful World, Israel &#8220;Iz&#8221; Kamakawiwo&#8217;ole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[17,239,245,370,554],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}