over the rainbow

Hideg was back in his skin, beaming from his wheelchair as he bounced to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Some Day My Prince Will Come” and other tunes.

She describes the last conversation they had as taking place while listening to Ella Fitzgerald's classic song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," saying, "The music was playing in the background and I was lying next to him and he sat up in bed and he said, 'I trust you.' And then he said, 'I love you.' That's the last thing he said."

“He wanted me to let you know that Annie got over the Rainbow Bridge just fine. He said she’s looking healthy and spry, and he’s about to show her around.”

The book is just as much about the circumstances in which Tweedy experienced these eclectic 50 tracks as it is about the songs themselves — the comfort that hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” with his Judy Garland-loving mom brought him as a kid or the ways in which Minutemen’s “History Lesson – Part II” bred his longing to be a rock star.

Two printed music scores from the film, “Over the Rainbow” and “If I Only Had a Brain,” are being put up by the family of actor Ray Bolger, who portrayed the Scarecrow in the fictional land of Oz.