Soundtrack-The Wiz (1978)


 

Artist: Soundtrack 

Title: The Wiz

Label: MCA Records/Motown

Format: 2LP

Cat: MCA2-14000

Year of Release: 1978

Country and Year of Edition: US 1978 Pickneyville #1 with poster

Sell Price: $12.34 VG+/VG+ 7/14/24

Discogs Last Sold: 7/13/24 M/NM $19.37

Low: $2.36 VG+/VG

Median: $7.67

Average: $11.03

High: $59.78 M/M

Current low price: $1.09 VG+/Generic, 

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 109

Have/Want: 5111/388

Where Sold: Avondale Estates, GA

Time it took to sell: 3 years

Where and When Purchased: Facebook $3 LP lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

Save for a few great tracks, this Quincy Jones soundtrack for the 1978 "update" of The Wizard of Oz is a 4 side nail pulling experience start to finish with some unquestionable exceptions.  I liked the film in the theatre as an 8 year old and certainly took this double album out of the library.  I had an idea a few years back that this was worth getting cheap in a lot of records thinking it was flipable.  I was correct, but the initial $29.99 price dropped all the way down to $12.34.  Still 4 times what I paid for it.

There were a couple good soundtrack things.  The Quincy Jones instrumental "Poppy Girls" has a hint of psychedelia and who could deny Richard Pryor doing anything?

"Ease On Down The Road" was the signature song by the films stars Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and I hadn't heard it in ages.  However, the song is reprised throughout the second side with dialogue banter that makes more sense while you are watching the movie.  By the time the third version rolled around I had enough easing.   The other one I remember well was "What Would I Do If I Could Feel" sung by Nipsey Russell.  I remember this more for the background singers scene in the film where statues come to life to sing in harmony.  The best of all these is the Diana Ross song "A Brand New Day" which I had no recollection of and is sandwiched between "Liberation Agitato" and "Liberation Ballet"

Freedom you see has got our hearts singing so joyfully.

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