Wonderland or Not

The OSF theme this week is This Is My “Moti­va­tion”.

Do songs moti­vate? Do they ins­pire? Of course they do. I could list inspirational/motivational songs until this blog burst, and cybers­pace with it. For expe­diency I’ll go with the no-brainer. The num­ber one song on the Song of the Cen­tury List — a list I was in total igno­rance of until doing deep inves­ti­ga­tive research for this post. The quin­tes­sen­tial song of motivation/inspiration, Over the Rain­bow, some­ti­mes known as Somewhere Over the Rain­bow, writ­ten for The Wizard of Oz and per­for­med by Judy Gar­land in the film. The

I rather love the Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole ‘IZ’ ver­sion, so you will enjoy that ver­sion here. I have lis­ted alter­nate ren­di­tions below for you moti­va­tio­nal enjoyment.

Grab a beer or a glass of wine and lis­ten to the rest. You’ll pro­bably find a few of your own to add to the list.

Patti LaBe­lle There are seve­ral very good Patti LaBe­lle ren­di­tions check them out.
Judy Gar­land Judy did many ver­sions too.
Sarah Vaughn
Me First and the Gimme Gim­mes Punk Ver­sion
Queen
Jeff Beck
Eric Clap­ton
Rufus Wain­right Nice.
Bar­nara Stei­sand
Jane Monheit lovely voice
Mandy Patin­kin Never knew this man could sing.
Mariah Carey
Jason Mraz and Bush­wa­lla
Bran­don Sipes
Jewel
Aretha Fran­klin

What songs would you list when thin­king “this is my moti­va­tion”?

Peace