Thursday 4/17 Life front page:

The end of 'Rainbow' is nowhere in sight

By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY
Maybe it's that image of carefree bluebirds or just the lilting lullaby
tone, but there's something about Over the Rainbow that warms the heart and
makes cash registers ring.

The latest star turn for the tune written for Judy Garland's Dorothy in
1939's The Wizard of Oz came last week, when dreadlocked American Idol
finalist Jason Castro plinked out the song on ukulele.

Castro's rendition not only kept him in the competition, it also spawned a
700%% increase in sales and a huge jump (from No. 187 to No. 11) on Nielsen
SoundScan's digital songs chart for the 1993 version recorded by the late
Hawaiian giant Bruddah Iz, aka Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.

Other Idol performances also drove download debuts: Martina McBride's Anyway
(No. 101) and Aerosmith's Dream On (102), sung on the show by Kristy Lee
Cook and Michael Johns, plus 10 songs performed on Idol Gives Back.