The Wiz Soundtrack 1978

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 144 KBS CD ONE 1. Main Title (Overture, Part One) 2:36 2. Overture (Part Two) 1:57 3. The Feeling That We Have Theresa Merrit 3:31 4. Can I Go On? Diana Ross 1:56 5. Glinda's Theme 1:10 6. He's The Wizard Thelma Carpenter 4:09 7. Soon As I Get Home / Home Diana Ross 4:04 8. You Can't Win Michael Jackson 3:14 9. Ease On Down The Road #1 Diana Ross & Michael Jackson 3:55 10. What Would I Do If I Could Feel? Nipsey Russel 2:18 11. Slide Some Oil To Me Nipsey Russel 2:51 12. Ease On Down The Road #2 Diana Ross, Michael Jackson & Nipsey Russel 1:31 13. (I'm A) Mean Ole Lion Ted Ross 2:25 14. Ease On Down The Road #3 Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russel & Ted Ross 1:26 15. Poppy Girls 3:27 CD TWO 1. Be A Lion Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russel & Ted Ross 4:04 2. End Of The Yellow Brick Road 1:01 3. Emerald City Sequence 6:44 4. So You Wanted To See The Wizard? Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russel, Ted Ross & Richard Pryor 2:46 5. Is This What Feeling Gets? (Dorothy's Theme) Diana Ross 3:21 6. Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News Mabel King 3:04 7. A Brand New Day Diana Ross, Michael Jackson & The Wiz Stars 7:49 8. Believe In Yourself (Dorothy) Diana Ross 2:55 9. The Good Witch Glinda Richard Pryor & Lena Horne 1:09 10. Believe In Yourself (Rerise) Lena Horne 2:15 11. Home Diana Ross 4:03

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