The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]

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  • Release Date: 07/29/1997
  • Original Release: 1978
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 18,383
  • Label: MCA
  • UPC: 008811164928

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The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]

Disc 1
1LISTENMain Title from "The Wiz" (Overture, Pt. 1) 2:34
2LISTENOverture, Pt. 2 2:03
3LISTENThe Feeling That We Have 3:30
4LISTENCan I Go On 1:56
5LISTENGlinda's Theme 1:09
6LISTENHe's the Wizard 2:52
7LISTENSoon as I Get Home/Home 4:01
8LISTENYou Can't Win 3:14
9LISTENEase on Down the Road #1 3:19
10LISTENWhat Would I Do If I Could Feel? 2:18
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Disc 2
1LISTENBe a Lion 4:04
2LISTENEnd of the Yellow Brick Road 1:01
3LISTENEmerald City Sequence 6:41
4LISTENSo You Wanted to See the Wizard 2:48
5LISTENIs This What Feeling Gets? (Dorothy's Theme) 3:13
6LISTENDon't Noboby Bring Me No Bad News 3:01
7LISTENA Brand New Day 7:51
8LISTENBelieve in Yourself (Dorothy) 2:54
9LISTENThe Good Witch Glinda 1:10
10LISTENBelieve in Yourself (Reprise) 2:13
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Editorial Reviews

Director Sidney Lumet's big budget film version of The Wiz, an updated musical treatment of The Wizard of Oz with songs by Charlie Smalls, is not remembered as one of the great movie musicals. But you wouldn't know that from this elaborate double-LP soundtrack album, on which Smalls's Broadway score is augmented by music written by producer Quincy Jones, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and Luther Vandross. Jones organized a studio band of New York jazz veterans, including Toots Thielemans, Eric Gale, Michael Brecker, and Richard Tee, and of course the cast provides spectacular vocal firepower in the persons of Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. The result was a Top 40, gold-selling album paced by a Top 40 single of "Ease on Down the Road" by Ross and Jackson (outperforming the 1975 version by Consumer Rapport), as well as the chart single "You Can't Win," by Jackson. Much comparison has been made between the vocal (not to mention the facial) resemblance between Ross and Jackson; here's the only place to hear them together. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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The Best Movie and Story Lineby Anonymous

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October 06, 2008: I love the Wiz the music the outfits and the story it tells are all wonderful life lessons. I think every person should see this movie! I have bought it for family and myself and they all watch it atleast every other month sometimes more. What movie do you watch that often???

Wiz is Best Musical Everby Anonymous

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May 07, 2005: The Wiz is the best musical I have ever seen. It has the best music, from slow paced alternative to funky R&B. Some songs make me feel happy and I want to dance, while other songs make me want to cry.


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