Over the Rainbow

Decca, under Universal. The wish is innocent. It is not yet a plan.

Decca released the studio record. Universal holds Decca. A girl tells the truth about a life that is too hard, and imagines a country where that is not so. The imagining is a mercy. It becomes a harm if it is the only country she is offered.

Sing it to a child. Then show them the actual table.

The eight

Industry
9/10
A melody that still undoes a room. That is craft.
Household
5/10
A child, wanting out. No house yet on the other side.
Piety
6/10
Longing, clean of contempt.
Courage
5/10
She says the want. She does not yet have to build the place.
Republic
4/10
Somewhere, not a town with duties.
Temperance
7/10
The wish is large and it stays a wish.
Truth
6/10
Trouble is real in the verse. The rainbow does not pay the bill.
Stewardship
8/10
A child should hear it. A grown house should answer it with a real place.

Live historicallyBedtime, once. In the morning, one concrete good in this house, named out loud.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1967

Motown · Universal Music Group

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Motown, under Universal. The promise is arrival. They do not say it will be easy.

Tamla and Motown put it out. Universal holds Motown. The record is a duet that will not let the other singer be alone in the vow. That is rarer than the hook suggests.

Use it as a promise you intend to keep this week, not as a feeling.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Two singers locked in time. That is craft.
Household
7/10
A person, coming. The distance is not a metaphor only.
Piety
5/10
Devotion, said at full voice.
Courage
6/10
They name the obstacles and refuse them.
Republic
4/10
Two people. The promise is still witnessable.
Temperance
6/10
Big, and it stays on the promise.
Truth
7/10
No small print in the chorus.
Stewardship
7/10
A standard of showing up.

Live historicallyTell someone you are coming. Then come.