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Smed		2004-07-20 09:48:56 AM

I'd let Britney and Christina bring my 1000 pound Hawaiian to life.

Shiftless		2004-07-20 09:50:31 AM

This guy's voice is incredible. Seriously. It really is unfortunate he died. Basically he weighed so much he couldn't breathe. His whole family was like that.

johnz16		2004-07-20 10:59:33 AM

The song is on the "Meet Joe Black" soundtrack. I used it in a wedding video I edited for someone about 5 years ago. Great song.

bubbaprog		2004-07-20 11:52:26 AM

I never read the article because I was assaulted by a woman screaming at me about getting a fake degree.

Is this what Wired has come to? augh.

gjb		2004-07-20 12:21:03 PM

Somewhere over the Rainbow/It's a wonderful life just plain rocks. It was on the soundtrack for 50 first dates.

SherKhan		2004-07-20 12:32:08 PM

Will this good taste finally save
As talent strikes back from the grave?

/love the opening sigh for some reason, likewise on Buckley's Hallelujah
//Johnny come ukulele

Pooter		2004-07-20 01:04:37 PM

Damn, I love Iz. Seriously talented singer.

Rendrago		2004-07-20 03:44:20 PM

heap		2004-07-20 04:11:25 PM

that...is one hell of a resonating chamber. hell, throw a couple of tons on britney, it might help her singing voice.

rh75		2004-07-20 04:30:54 PM

Bruddah Iz fat.

FarkMeAmadeus		2004-07-20 04:32:32 PM

This song was also playing when Goose died on "ER". I'm guessing that's where a lot of people heard it.

noah's_fark		2004-07-20 04:32:52 PM

I had no idea this guy was dead. Listened to his music once -- really good stuff.

Faust_Motel		2004-07-20 04:32:53 PM

A buddy of mine had his rainbow/wonderful world melody played as his first song at his wedding reception- very classy and sweet- just about brought a tear to my eye.

zorgon		2004-07-20 04:33:27 PM

04-07-20 04:11:25 PM heap
hell, throw a couple of tons on britney, it might help her singing voice.

I give it six months.

Bathysphere		2004-07-20 04:33:29 PM

I'm so glad i know who sings this song. FOrgive me for being rascist or whatever, but I always assumed it was sung by an old black guy.

egriffin		2004-07-20 04:34:01 PM

that's a huge biatch!

dervish16108		2004-07-20 04:34:06 PM

I was in Queens Medical Center in Hawaii 5 years ago, and the respiratory therapists were all calling "Iz" "Wuz", then they explained the process by how Iz went from a small oxygen mask, to forced air, to CPAP, to a 8 breaths per minute ventilating machine. Sad stuff, painful end for such a great musician.

Ouroborus		2004-07-20 04:35:07 PM

This guy's voice is incredible.

just listened to the preview on the iTMS - he did have a good voice

moops		2004-07-20 04:35:38 PM

the plane! the plane!

Radworld4		2004-07-20 04:36:46 PM

Johnny come latelys "finding" this song...heard it nearly a decade ago.

Hollywood can't make a death scene or a departure scene without busting out this song now...

chewie29		2004-07-20 04:37:12 PM

Also in "Finding Forrester"

Radworld4		2004-07-20 04:38:05 PM

Also In E.R....(sigh)

Pooh		2004-07-20 04:38:24 PM

i'd hit it....

qgmonkey		2004-07-20 04:39:48 PM

What is it about Pacific Islanders that makes so farking huge??

Sir Cumference the Flatulent		2004-07-20 04:39:50 PM

2004-07-20 04:33:29 PM Bathysphere

I'm so glad i know who sings this song. FOrgive me for being rascist or whatever, but I always assumed it was sung by an old black guy.

I think you might be referring to the original version of "What A Wonderful World" recorded by Louis Armstrong who, in his later years, was indeed an old black guy.

bluefunk		2004-07-20 04:40:35 PM

Well at least someone beat me to "I'd hit it...."

eddyatwork		2004-07-20 04:40:49 PM

I'd hit it with some Slim-Fast!

/didn't read the article

Yellow Number Five		2004-07-20 04:40:56 PM

He not really dead, he's pulling a Tupac, and will sell more records "dead" than he ever did alive.

Occams_Electric_Razor		2004-07-20 04:40:58 PM

The milkshake diet claims another victim.

crackwhore		2004-07-20 04:41:06 PM

"...they explained the process by how Iz went from a small oxygen mask, to forced air, to CPAP, to a 8 breaths per minute ventilating machine. Sad stuff, painful end for such a great musician."

sounds like it might be painfull for a great doctor, or brick layer for that matter, too.

Forsythe P. Jones		2004-07-20 04:41:08 PM

Loved his versions,but I have a special fondness for Eva Cassidy's versions of both songs as well. She also tragically passed away before her time.

ale4ever		2004-07-20 04:41:22 PM

Great song and singer; sad ending.

modernhamlet		2004-07-20 04:41:38 PM

Also unavailable for comment...

/it's a comfortable handbasket

MooseBayou		2004-07-20 04:41:54 PM

Well, here's that Boobies thread we've all so eagerly awaited for the last two days.

MAN Boobies, that is.

I bet his knees aren't pointy.

/sorry

Billy McKay		2004-07-20 04:42:06 PM

Johnny come latelys "finding" this song...heard it nearly a decade ago.

Bravo. (golf clap)

PowerSlacker		2004-07-20 04:43:04 PM

Bruddah Iz serious NHL goalie material.

Even as a corpse.

antifan		2004-07-20 04:43:35 PM

I thought this was just another "Wesley Willis" but apparently this guy could REALLY sing!

radarlove		2004-07-20 04:43:40 PM

Bout time Iz gets his props!

I first heard his Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World cover on the first ever eToys.com commercial (Jesus, remember eToys?). The instant I heard it I fell in love, and busted my ass to find out who did it. The guy is amazing, and the song still makes me misty. =)

lnsane		2004-07-20 04:44:27 PM

I first read that as Buddha is. They almost look the same. Right?

Ouroborus		2004-07-20 04:44:40 PM

What is it about Pacific Islanders that makes so farking huge??

plate lunch

shrinkydink		2004-07-20 04:45:01 PM

Challenge,to ,Britney ,and ,Christina,?,.

I don't, get, it.

b166er		2004-07-20 04:45:07 PM

I wouldn't go so far as to call the brother fat, I mean, he's got a weight problem. What's the attractive and successful African-American gunna do, he's samoan.

[/close enough]

Asprin		2004-07-20 04:45:09 PM

Most [IRONIC] use of an [OBVIOUS] tag evar!

lnsane		2004-07-20 04:45:11 PM

Buddha Iz I mean.

Radworld4		2004-07-20 04:45:17 PM

Forsythe P. Jones...

Cassidy's version of "Fields of gold" better than the original.

Bathysphere		2004-07-20 04:45:47 PM

no, no, I've only heard his rendition of "Over the Rainbow" on the e-toys comercial and "Meet Joe Black" I dont think my mind is big enough to imagine a giant hawaian singing it though so I just naturally figured it was a friendly old black guy who I would want to be my grandpa...

/wishes Bill Cosby were her grandpa

Amaranth		2004-07-20 04:45:52 PM

Very bad artist. Saw him live one time (1995), he couldn't even sing a whole song because he was so fat he couldn't breathe.

Infact the song mentioned in the article (and so loved by the posters here) was the only one worth half a cent and it was a rip-off/rip-off medley.