Recording and Release
After briefly recording with Sony BMG, Talbot was signed to Rainbow Recording Company, an offshoot of Rhythm Riders made specifically for her. To produce Over the Rainbow, Talbot worked with John Arnison, who currently manages Gabrielle and Billy Ocean, and Marc Marot, former managing director of Island Records. It was produced and mixed by Simon Hill and Rob May. A recording schedule was worked out so Talbot could continue with her normal school activities while recording the album in her aunt Vicky's spare bedroom, which her mother described as "a better solution which has not robbed her of her childhood". Talbot said that "it was just amazing that we could do it in my auntie's house". Arnison and Marot asked the Talbot family to "write down a list of the songs that Connie would sing at her birthday party" to help choose the track listing, and then "thought long and hard" about including more adult songs on the album. Talbot herself insisted that they should. The final version of Over the Rainbow was recorded at Olympic Studios, on 12 October 2007. Arnison described the recording process, saying that Talbot "hadn't sung nursery rhymes; she'd always sung classic tracks. So it was actually quite an easy task to make the record." The album was released on 26 November 2007, with an initial pressing of 50,000 copies. However, an additional 120,000 had to be pressed after the album sold out in days. The album was released in the U.S. on 14 October 2008.
Over the Rainbow was rereleased on 18 June 2008, and was available for preorder in May, with three new tracks to replace the Christmas-themed songs on the original album. The new tracks were made available from Talbot's official website so that those who bought the original need not buy the rerelease. Talbot's song "Three Little Birds", a cover of the Bob Marley song of the same name, was released as a single on 10 June 2008, and a music video was shot in Jamaica to for the release. The album was released in the U.S. on 14 October, and Talbot travelled to America with her family to publicise it. Talbot's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was released as a single in the U.S. on 7 April, along with a newly recorded "You Raise Me Up".
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