Edelweiss (song) - Versions

Versions

• The Belgian performer Michael Junior performed this song in his concerts.
• German Americans play the same tune every year during the Oktoberfest in Hard Bargain Farm, Maryland, with the ringing of cowbells.
• A slightly altered version of the song has been sung by Shamrock Rovers supporters since the 1960s.
• The English singer Vince Hill reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967 with his cover version of the track.
• The Canadian singer Sarah Slean has performed the song as a singalong in her concerts.
• Linda Eder recorded a version of the song for her 2003 album Broadway, My Way.
• 10-year-old Hollie Steel performed the song on the third series of Britain's Got Talent and infamously broke down half way through due to nerves. It is also due to be her second single, for her album Hollie, which was released on 29 March 2010.
• Elaine Paige recorded the song for her 2006 album, Essential Musicals.
• The virtual singer Megurine Luka performed this song.
• The song was featured in a comedy skit performed by Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein on Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show, in which Borstein opposes MacFarlane's singing of the song, only to be jokingly reminded that, as a result of the Holocaust, Borstein's only competition as a female Jewish comedian in Hollywood is Sarah Silverman. Borstein then joins MacFarlane in singing the song.
• Bryn Terfel has included this song in his 1996 Rodgers & Hammerstein album Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein.
• Julie Andrews has recorded it for her Richard Rodgers tribute album Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers.
• Iranian singer Farhad Mehrad performed it in both Persian and English in opposition to Iran's post-revolutionary regime, pointing the similarities between Iran after revolution and Austria under Nazi occupation.
• Austrian singers, Sigrid & Marina made a recording of the song in 2009
• André Rieu has recorded his own arrangement and released it on his 2002 album Dreaming.