<Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> E.Y. Harburg, Bob Thiele, George David Weiss </Td> </Tr> <P> Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's album Facing Future, released in 1993, included a ukulele medley of the song and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". It reached number 12 on Billboard's Hot Digital Tracks chart the week of January 31, 2004 (for the survey week ending January 18, 2004). In the UK, it was released as a single under the title "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". It entered the UK Official Singles Chart in April 2007 at number 68 . In Germany, the single also returned to the German Singles Chart in September 2010 . After only 2 weeks on that chart, it had already received gold status for having sold 150,000 copies . In October 2010, it reached No. 1 in the German charts and 2011 it has been certified 5x Gold for selling more than 750,000 copies . It stayed 12 non-consecutive weeks at the top spot and was the most successful single in Germany in 2010 . As of March 2012, it's the 2nd best - selling download ever in Germany with digital sales between 500,000 and 600,000 . In France, it debuted at number 4 in December 2010 and reached number one . In the USA, it was certified Platinum for 1,000,000 downloads sold . To date it has sold over 4.2 million digital copies as of October 2014 . In Switzerland, it received Platinum, too, for 30,000 copies sold . </P> <P> This version of the song has been used in several commercials, films and television programs including Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Son of the Mask, Snakes on a Plane, Charmed, South Pacific, Cold Case, ER, Life on Mars, Horizon, and Scrubs . The Kamakawiwoʻole version of the song was covered by the cast of Glee on the season one finale, "Journey," and included on the extended play Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals, charting at number 30 in the UK, 31 in Canada and Ireland, 42 in Australia, and 43 in the US . Cliff Richard recorded his own version of the medley based on this one with a medley of "Over the Rainbow / What A Wonderful World" released as a single from the album Wanted, which charted in the UK in 2001 and Aselin Debison recorded the medley for her 2002 album Sweet is the Melody . </P> <P> This version of the song was recorded in 1988, in Honolulu, in just one take . Israel called the recording studio at 3 am . He was given 15 minutes to arrive by Milan Bertosa . Bertosa is quoted as saying" And in walks the largest human being I had seen in my life . Israel was probably like 500 pounds . And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on ." The building security found Israel a large steel chair . "Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is' Somewhere Over the Rainbow .' He played and sang, one take, and it was over ." </P>

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