Here is the list as compiled by
www.secondhandsongs.com/song/5316

The song is also covered as Somewhere over the rainbow.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's album Facing Future, released in 1993, included a ukulele medley of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World".

Larry Clinton & His Orchestra (1939)
Jo Stafford (1946)
Frank Sinatra (April 1947)
Frances Langford (1948)
Bud Powell (1951)
Rosemary Clooney and Harry James (1952)
Perry Como & Sally Sweetland (March 1952)
Paul Weston and his Orchestra (November 2, 1953)
Bobby Scott (1955)
Santo & Johnny (1960)
Frankie Avalon (1960)
Tony Bennett (1960)
Ella Fitzgerald (1961)
The Marcels (1961)
Ray Charles (August 1963)
Billy Stewart (1965)
Cover as: Arcobaleno by I Ribelli (1968)
Mal dei Primitives (1968)
Lou Donaldson (1970)
Livingston Taylor (1973)
Tom T. Hall (July 1974)
Ray Stevens (1975)
Cover as: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Stephanie Mills (1975)
Shirley Bassey (1978)
Cover as: Regnbuen by Bamses Venner (1980)
Jerry Lee Lewis (August 1980)
Susannah McCorkle (1981)
Cover as: Somewhere over the Rainbow by Toby Swann (1981)
Patti LaBelle (1981)
Red Garland (1982)
Celine Dion (1985)
Barbra Streisand (April 20, 1987)
Harry Nilsson (December 1988)
Melissa Manchester (1989)
Olivia Newton-John (1989)
Evan Marshall (1990)
Maceo Parker (1990)
Richard Elliot (1991)
Eva Cassidy (1992)
Johnny Costa (1992)
James Booker (1993)
Cover as: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Marusha (January 1994)
Maureen McGovern (1996)
Sylvia McNair & André Previn (May 1996)
Tori Amos (August 20, 1996)
Cover as: Achter de regenboog by Ann De Winne (1997)
Cover as: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Christy Baron (January 14, 1997)
Michael Bellar & As-Is Ensemble (1998)
Don Angle (1999)
Rio Reiser (1999)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (May 18, 1999)
Norma Waterson (August 4, 1999)
James Galway (October 12, 1999)
Bill Frisell (December 26, 2000)
Harry Connick Jr (2001)
Cover as: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Bart Voet, Louis Debij, Sam Vloemans, Esmé Bos, Gulli Gudmundsson (2001)
Cover as: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Richard Clayderman (2001)
Chucho Valdés (February 13, 2001)
Jane Monheit (May 22, 2001)
Monica Mancini (2002)
Victoria Williams (2002)
Eric Clapton (2002)
Erik Berglund (2002)
Kate Normington (March 19, 2002)
Pete Huttlinger (September 10, 2002)
Kimberley Locke (2003)
Anne Murray (2004)
Ray Charles with Johnny Mathis (August 31, 2004)
Cover as: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Mägo de Oz (September 2004)
The Innocence Mission (September 2004)
Johnny Mathis (2005)
Kylie Minogue (November 29, 2005)
Petra Magoni & Ferruccio Spinetti (2006)
Juliette Gréco (2006)
Nina Hagen & the Capital Dance Orchestra (2006)
Carnie Wilson (May 2, 2006)
Carly Simon (January 2, 2007)
Billy Ray Cyrus (July 24, 2007)
Susan Wong (August 2007)
Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle (December 7, 2007)

Also partially covered:
When You Wish Upon a Star/Over the Rainbow by Maureen McGovern (1975)
Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (1990)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World by Cliff Richard (November 5, 2001)
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows/Over the Rainbow by Linda Eder (2005)
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Rainbow#Other_versions


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