to all concerned parties ... this is not a dupe as i have researched this extensively tonight ... and this is the ONLY video on the sift that actually has israel kamakawiwo'ole playing his ukulele while signing his song!!! this is his memorial video and you see his ashes being sent off into the sea at the end.

fav song!!!!

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Great song. I play this one on my guitar quite a bit. RIP Iz.

Thanks Ladybug! ~<3

'Somewhere' Ladybug

This is a great video!

RIP Israel.

One of my favorite songs ever. Dag, I also love playing this song on guitar.

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It's nice, because the chords are pretty simple.
http://www.e-tabs.org/tab/israel_kamakawiwo_ole/somewhere_over_the_rainbow_(2)

The memorial at the end is touching. He was obviously well loved.

my love of this song grew from a cereal commercial to 'meet joe black' to finally putting it on my mix cd for work!

i'm glad you all enjoyed it!

awesome sift, ladybug.

Very hard to hear.

I saw this a few weeks ago after seeing the other two sifts w/ the song. Since I had never heard of the man, I was curious so I googled him. I came across "the story" (if it's true) about the night this song was recorded.

Kamakawiwo'ole sort of kept his manager on "stand-by"....to be able to respond whenever he was inspired to record. Kamakawiwo'ole was a perfectionist and wouldn't record something until it was just right.

One night his manager had to get a guy to open up the recording studio because Kamakawiwo'ole had been up working on something and wanted to record it right away.

That night he recorded this song one take and he was done. He never sang the arrangement again.

I don't know if it's true or not, but I liked the story. Sad to know he's gone.

Every time I hear this song it makes me want to cry. This man was a great artist.

it's true, i always tear up when i hear this song. It's my achilles heel.

Aw, I wanted to upvote it, but it's *dead.

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*promote izzie goodness.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, January 22nd, 2007 3:28pm PST - promote requested by gwiz665.

ok you can take a day off eating now.

Thanks for the promote, one of the most beautiful songs truly

he is taking more then a day off ... ace. >P

I came to promote this, and its gotten screwed. He isn't singing. I tisn't the right music. The video isn't dead, exactly, but it isn't the same video. This is just totally wrong. I'm marking it *dead so it can be fixed.

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