The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition | 
 enlarge | Artists: Herbert Stothart, Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg
Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 4813
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 5.6 x 0.7
MPN: 71964
UPC: 081227196424
EAN: 0081227196424
ASIN: B0000033JH
Release Date: July 18, 1995
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Main Title | | • | Trouble in School | | • | Farmyard | | • | Over the Rainbow | | • | Miss Gulch | | • | Leaving Home | | • | Crystal Gazing | | • | Cyclone | | • | Munchkinland | | • | I'm Not a Witch | | • | Come Out, Come Out...(Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | It Really Was No Miracle (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | As Mayor of Munchkin City (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | As Coroner, I Must Aver (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead (Reprise) (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | We Welcome You to Munchkinland (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) | | • | Threatening Witch | | • | Leaving Munchkinland | | • | Good Fairy Vanishes | | • | Follow the Yellow Brick Road/You're off to See the Wizard | | • | The Cornfield | | • | If I Only Had a Brain | | • | We're off to See the Wizard | | • | The Apple Orchard | | • | If I Only Had a Heart | | • | Witch on Roof | | • | Bees & Tin Woodman Lament | | • | Into the Forest of Wild Beasts | | • | The Lion's Confession | | • | If I Only Had the Nerve | | • | Poppies | | • | The Spell | | • | Optimistic Voices | | • | Sign on the Gate/The City Gates Open | | • | The Merry Old Land of Oz | | • | If I Were King of the Forest | | • | At the Gates of Emerald City | | • | Magic Smoke Chords | | • | Terrified Lion |
Disc 2
| • | The Haunted Forest | | • | The Jitterbug | | • | The Jitterbug's Attack | | • | The Witch's Castle - Mendelssohn, Felix | | • | Toto Brings News/Over the Rainbow (Reprise) | | • | March of the Winkies - Stothart, Herbert | | • | Dorothy's Rescue - Stothart, Herbert | | • | On the Castle Wall | | • | Ding-Dong! Emerald City | | • | The Wizard's Expose/Emerald City Graduation Exercises | | • | Fill-In Awards/I Was Floating Through Space/Balloon Ascension/Second Ch | | • | I Hereby Decree | | • | Delirious Escape /Delirious Escape Continued/End Title - Bassman, George | | • | Main Title | | • | Over the Rainbow | | • | Over the Rainbow | | • | Cyclone | | • | Munchkinland Insert | | • | I'm Not a Witch | | • | Munchkinland Musical Sequence | | • | Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead | | • | Follow the Yellow Brick Road/You're off to See the Wizard | | • | If I Only Had a Brain | | • | If I Only Had a Heart | | • | The Lion's Confession | | • | Poppies | | • | Optimistic Voices | | • | Optimistic Voices | | • | The Merry Old Land of Oz | | • | If I Were King of the Forest | | • | If I Were King of the Forest | | • | The Jitterbug | | • | Over the Rainbow (Reprise) | | • | Ding-Dong! Emerald City |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Lions and tigers and bears, the yellow brick road, gamboling midgets, warnings scrawled high above by a skywriting witch: No movie ever imprinted itself on young imaginations or endured in adult memory more than MGM's classic 1939 musical, and no movie score ever hooked as forcefully into our collective cultural memory. This exemplary soundtrack finally treats this deserved classic to a thoughtful and comprehensive rendering that confirms the enduring power of Harold Arlen's original music and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg's lyrics. On film, the songs unreeled as a mixture of discrete songs and multithemed medleys with frequent reprises, a presentation preserved here, epitomized in the "Munchkinland Musical Sequence." If not as concise as Bobby McFerrin's legendary, hilarious concert compression of the entire musical story, this telling of The Wizard of Oz relives the film just as vividly. "Over the Rainbow" is presented here with multiple alternate takes, making it a must for fans of Judy Garland. --Sam Sutherland
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
Wizard of Oz February 16, 2008
My only complaint may be that this collection has too much on it. I never realized how many songs are played in the background and not in the forefront of the movie. Thoroughly entertaining and well worth the money.
BEST OZ CD SET EVER!!!! December 31, 2007
I absolutly love this set. It has all the songs and music from the movie, plus music to scenes that have been cut. It feels a little like watching an uncut version of the movie (with no visuals or dialogue). Of course, the main attractions are the songs heard in the movie. Even if you just want the songs, this set is great (although a four rating would be more appropriate if you only want songs). My only complaints involve the two WInkie songs on the set: The March of the Winkies do not include the 'Oh ee Oh' chant, and the reprise of Ding-Dong with the Winkies lost the background music and all but the lead singer. Other than that, this is a great set.
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears...OH MY, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SET! June 15, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is IT, folks! The ULTIMATE Wizard of OZ (aka, WOO) soundtrack/score album!
Man, this is just Beautiful, believe me! What's amazing to me is how a man of 60 years (almost) has this bank in his brain for so many elements from this absolutely magnificent film. (How the Hell could Gone With the Wind have even been considered as "Best Picture" against this Timeless Classic? I think the intervening years have proven the "MPA" very wrong on this one. There is no way that this picture, and it's most wonderful musical soundtrack/score do not go to the top of the "Best Movies of All Time" list. Right up there right behind "Citizen Kane", which would make it #2, I believe.
The folks at Rhino Records have taken this material and have lovingly and carefully cleaned it all up, and remastered it with the utmost care, and then, they have created a truly beautiful, deluxe package to "keep" it in! Those of us who treasure all things "OZ", especially from the movie, will find themselves thinking "I wish I'd bought this before!" You will be so pleased when you hear things that have never been released before from the score on records, LP's, previous CD's, etc. Truly a Priceless Album that you will delight in and treasure. What a treat when one is having a "bad day" to pop this into their player and be transported to the wonderful land of "Oz" for an hour and a half.....the best stress reliever I know! Order yourself a copy of this beautifully packaged and presented set, and ENJOY! ~operabruin
Extended soundtrack March 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of the extra songs are just meadley's of the hits but if you are a huge fan there are some neat audio goodies.
thank you so much January 23, 2007
great great great condition and great price
thank you
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