THE
WIZARD OF OZ
film
1939
Soundtrack. MUSIC: Harold Arlen. WORDS: E Y Harburg. ORCH: Herbert Stothart. COND: Herbert Stothart, George Stoll. CAST: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Frank Morgan, Lorraine Bridges (for Billie Burke), Margaret Hamilton. (MGM 3464; CD/CBS 70289. More complete: CD/CBS AK-45356, incl Garland & Buddy Ebsen: "The Jitterbug" (dropped before release). Most complete, with addl material: CD/Rhino R2-71964 (ALB-1629). Excerpts: Garland: "Over the Rainbow" (45/MGM KGC-166, ALB-8, ALB-252, ALB-289, ALB-975, ALB-1101, ALB-1144, ALB-1211, ALB-1259, ALB-1273, ALB-1616, ALB-1704, ALB-1743, ALB-1833, ALB-1886, ALB-2247, ALB-2321) Bolger, Garland: "If I Only Had a Brain" (incl material dropped before release) (ALB-941). See also 19390001k.)
1939 studio prod. COND: Victor Young. CAST: Judy Garland of orig cast, uncredited soloists, chorus. (78/Dec album 74; Dec 10" 5152. Excerpts: Garland: "Over the Rainbow" (ALB-7, ALB-175, ALB-511, ALB-887, ALB-915, ALB-1249, ALB-1392, ALB-1450, ALB-1451, ALB-1495, ALB-1502, ALB-1575, ALB-1576, ALB-1614, ALB-1657) "The Jitterbug" (ALB-1495, ALB-1576, ALB-1580, ALB-1614) Chorus: "We're Off to See the Wizard" (ALB-1657).)
Records sung by Harold Arlen (composer) & E Y Harburg (lyricist). Arlen & Harburg: "Munchkinland Musical Sequence" (1938 rehearsal demo: ALB-1629) "Optimistic Voices" (1938, with Roger Edens: ALB-1629) Arlen: "Over the Rainbow" (1955: ALB-101) "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" (1966, with Barbra Streisand: ALB-60) Harburg: "Over the Rainbow" (1970: ALB-1580) (1970s: ALB-1779) "If I Only Had a Brain" (1939: ALB-1779) "If I Only Had a Brain/a Heart/the Nerve" (1970s: ALB-1779)
Records by members of orig cast. Judy Garland: "Over the Rainbow" (1939 radio, with Harold Arlen (composer), piano: ALB-180, ALB-718, ALB-726, ALB-1354, ALB-1886) (1940 radio, with Arlen at piano: ALB-869, ALB-1951, ALB-2203, ALB-2370) (1941, with Arlen at piano: ALB-1857) (Later: 78/V-Disc 335, ALB-188, ALB-189, ALB-205, ALB-219, ALB-240, ALB-329, ALB-461, ALB-525, ALB-547, ALB-735, ALB-762, ALB-913, ALB-914, ALB-916, ALB-1077, ALB-1078, ALB-1128, ALB-1201, ALB-1213, ALB-1283, ALB-1287, ALB-1333, ALB-1348, ALB-1419, ALB-1479, ALB-1600, ALB-1631, ALB-1643, ALB-1886, ALB-2026, ALB-2119, ALB-2321, ALB-2370) Ray Bolger, Garland: "If I Only Had a Brain," "We're Off to See the Wizard" (1963, TV: ALB-917, ALB-1886) "The Jitterbug" (1963, TV: ALB-917) Bert Lahr: "If I Was King of the Forest" (1950, radio: ALB-1015, ALB-2280)
1969 studio prod. ORCH & COND: Marty Gold. VOCALS: chorus. (Camden 1109)
Studio prod. COND: Joel Herron. VOCALS: Lee Forester, chorus. (78/MGM album L-9)
1950 radio prod. COND: Rudy Schrager. CAST: Judy Garland, unidentified soloists, chorus. (Radiola MR-1109; CD/Radiola CDMR-1109.)
1957 studio prod. COND: Mitch Miller. NARRATOR: Art Carney. CAST: Anne Lloyd, Dick Byron, Bob Miller, Ralph Nyland, chorus. (Golden A-198-13, with Peter and the Wolf)
1939 radio show. COND: Meredith Willson. TALK: Harold Arlen (composer), E Y Harburg (lyricist), Fred Stone (of 1904 prod), Robert Young, Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford. VOCALS: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr & Frank Morgan of 1939 film cast; Harold Arlen (composer); Robert Young; chorus. Arlen (piano & vocal), Garland: "Over the Rainbow" Garland: "Over the Rainbow" Bolger, Young, Lahr: "If I Only Had a Brain... Heart... the Nerve" Garland, chorus: "Munchkinland Scene/Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead" Lahr: "If I Were King of the Forest" Morgan: "In the Merry Old Land of Oz" Lahr, Garland, chorus: "Courage" (CD/Jass 629 (ALB-1354). Incomplete: Jass 17; CD/Vintage Jazz Classics JZCL-5006, titled "Judy Garland on Radio," with addl material.)
1987 London stage prod. ORCH: Larry Wilcox. COND: John Owen Edwards. CAST: Gillian Bevan, Joyce Grant, David Glover, Paul Greenwood, Simon Green, Trevor Peacock, Bille Brown. (CD/TER(E) 1165)
Soundtrack, as used on MGM radio trailer. Judy Garland: "Over the Rainbow" Chorus: "The Merry Old Land of Oz," "We're Off to See the Wizard" Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Garland: "If I Only Had a Brain... Heart... the Nerve," "We're Off to See the Wizard" (ALB-1354)
1940 medley. COND: Louis Levy. VOCAL: Hazel Jean. (78/Col(E) FB-2389, ALB-2076)
1996 New York concert prod rec live. ORCH & COND: Keith Levenson. CAST: Jewel, Nathan Lane, Jackson Browne, Roger Daltrey, Natalie Cole, Joel Grey, Debra Winger. (CD/Rhino R2-72405)
1998 stage prod. ORCH: Larry Wilcox. COND: Jeff Rizzo. CAST: Jessica Grové, Eartha Kitt, Ken Page, Lara Teeter, Dirk Lumbard, Mickey Rooney, Bob Dorian, Judith McCauley. (CD/TVT Records 1020-2)
2001 Sydney, Australia stage prod. ORCH: Larry Wilcox. COND: Peter Casey. CAST: Nikki Webster, Kane Alexander, Philip Gould, Doug Parkinson. (CD/BMG(Australia) 74321911342)
1948 medley. COND: Barry Gray. VOCALS: Ann Stephens. (78/HMV(E) BD-1228)
From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
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