The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition

The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition

The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition
List Price: $24.98
Our Price: $15.61
You Save: $9.37 (38%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Listen soundtracks from this album

Compare Prices for The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition

(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

Music CD Cover

Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1995-07-18
Music Label: Rhino Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Main Title
  2. Trouble in School [Extended Version]
  3. Farmyard [Outtake]
  4. Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
  5. Miss Gulch [Extended Version]
  6. Leaving Home
  7. Crystal Gazing [Extended Version]
  8. Cyclone [Extended Version]
  9. Munchkinland
  10. I'm Not a Witch
  11. Come Out, Come Out...(Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Billie Burke
  12. It Really Was No Miracle (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Billy Bletcher, Judy Garland
  13. We Thank You Very Sweetly (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Frank Cucksey, Joseph Koziel
  14. Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead (Munchkinland Musical Sequence)
  15. As Mayor of Munchkin City (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, J.D. Jewkes
  16. As Coroner, I Must Aver (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Harry Dean Stanton
  17. Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead (Reprise) (Munchkinland Musical Sequence)
  18. Lullaby League (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Lorraine Bridges, Betty Rome, Carol Tevis
  19. Lollipop Guild (Munchkinland Musical Sequence) - Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Harry Dean Stanton
  20. We Welcome You to Munchkinland (Munchkinland Musical Sequence)
  21. Threatening Witch [Extended Version]
  22. Leaving Munchkinland
  23. Good Fairy Vanishes
  24. Follow the Yellow Brick Road/You're off to See the Wizard - Judy Garland, George Stoll
  25. Cornfield
  26. If I Only Had a Brain [Extended Version] - Ray Bolger, Judy Garland
  27. We're off to See the Wizard [Duo] - Ray Bolger, Judy Garland
  28. Apple Orchard [Extended Version]
  29. If I Only Had a Heart [Extended Version] - Jack Haley, Sr.
  30. Witch on Roof [Extended Version]
  31. Bees & Tin Woodman Lament [Partial Outtake]
  32. We're off to See the Wizard [Trio] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland
  33. Into the Forest of Wild Beasts
  34. Lion's Confession [Outtake]
  35. If I Only Had the Nerve - Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Sr., Bert Lahr
  36. We're off to See the Wizard [Quartet] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland, Bert Lahr
  37. Poppies
  38. Spell [Extended Version]
  39. Optimistic Voices - Debutantes, MGM Studio Orchestra
  40. Sign on the Gate/The City Gates Open [Extended Version]
  41. Merry Old Land of Oz - Ray Bolger, Tyler Brook, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Sr., Cha Irwin, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Oliver Smith, Ralph Sudam, Bobby Watson
  42. Change of the Guard/Wizard's Exit [Outtake]
  43. If I Were King of the Forest [Extended Version] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Sr., Bert Lahr
  44. At the Gates of Emerald City [Extended Version]
  45. Magic Smoke Chords
  46. Terrified Lion
Music CD 2
  1. Haunted Forest [Extended Version]
  2. Jitterbug [Outtake] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Sr., Bert Lahr
  3. Jitterbug's Attack [Extended Version]
  4. Witch's Castle [Extended Version]
  5. Toto Brings News/Over the Rainbow (Reprise) [Extended Version] - Judy Garland, MGM Studio Orchestra
  6. March of the Winkies [Extended Version]
  7. Dorothy's Rescue [Extended Version]
  8. On the Castle Wall [Extended Version]
  9. Ding-Dong! Emerald City [Outtake] - Ken Darby, MGM Studio Chorus
  10. Wizard's Expos?/Emerald City Graduation Exercises [Extended Version]
  11. Fill-In Awards/I Was Floating Through Space/Balloon Ascension/Second Ch
  12. I Hereby Decree
  13. Delirious Escape /Delirious Escape Continued/End Title [Extended Versio
  14. Main Title [Alternate Take with Unused Tag]
  15. Over the Rainbow [Partial Take] - Judy Garland
  16. Over the Rainbow [Alternate Take] - Judy Garland
  17. Cyclone [Final Film Version]
  18. Munchkinland Insert [Alternate Take]
  19. I'm Not a Witch [Alternate Version]
  20. Munchkinland Musical Sequence [Rehearsal Demo] - Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
  21. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead [Alternate/A Cappella Choir Version] - MGM Studio Chorus
  22. Lollipop Guild [Original Munchkin Actors' Voices]
  23. Follow the Yellow Brick Road/You're off to See the Wizard [Orchestral] - MGM Studio Orchestra, George Stoll
  24. If I Only Had a Brain [Unused Dance Music]
  25. If I Only Had a Heart [Unused Version] - Buddy Ebsen
  26. Lion's Confession [Alternate Arrangement][Outtake]
  27. Poppies [Alternate Version with Heavenly Choir]
  28. Optimistic Voices [Rehearsal Demo] - Harold Arlen, Roger Edens, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
  29. Optimistic Voices [Alternate Vocal Arrangement] - Debutantes
  30. Merry Old Land of Oz [Orchestral Angles]
  31. If I Were King of the Forest [Alternate Voice Tag][Excerpt][Take] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland, Bert Lahr
  32. If I Were King of the Forest [Alternate Vocal Tag] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland, Bert Lahr
  33. Jitterbug [Choreography Rehearsal] - Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Bert Lahr, Dona Massin
  34. Over the Rainbow (Reprise) [Alternate Version][Outtake] - Judy Garland
  35. Ding-Dong! Emerald City [Alternate Version]
  36. End Title [Alternate Version]

Free Music Notes for The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition

Free Music Review: Enough about the presentation, what about the QUALITY!
Hit: 2 Stars

Is it a beautiful boxed set? Well, its sturdy, has a nice cover, great booklet inside, so so pictures on the actual cds. But whats the bottom line here? For me it was the actual remastered recordings, and I have to tell you, they are simply awful. QUALITY OVER QUANITY FOLKS!!!! Yes they have included some really rare stuff here, and that is nice to have, but what I really wanted was a great remastered version of these classic songs, and I can't imagine that anyone would think these are even average.

Now don't get me wrong, I do understand the age of the source recordings, and certainly would not expect miracles, but in this day and age I certainly expect better than this. So I am gonna give it to you straight! Forget the booklet, forget the extra tracks, forget the boxed presention.

Get ready for unacceptable HISS folks. And I mean HISSSSSSSS! More HISSS than an army of deadly snakes could produce on their angriest day. This is the kind of hiss that overwhelms the wind noise from your car window. HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! To all of my dedicated audiophiles out there, I say, that I am confident that even I could have done a better job with simple software, a simple Macintish, and little experience. It is easier than ever to reduce or eliminate hiss while still preserving the high end of the audio tracks. I am not kidding here, but this "remastered recording" reminds me of the days in the 80's when I would take my tape recorder and set it next to the TV speaker and hope for the best.

The vocalists are completely in dissaray here. Sometimes to out in front, sometimes way in the back, and dear God, like the poor scarecrow, sometimes a whisper somewhere in an echo. Hearing Dorothy and Scarecrow sing "off to see the wizard" the firt time together is simply disorientating. It's like Dorothy is walking hand in hand with a ghost or something. The Beatles made it sound majectic on "Free as a Bird," this is just creepy.

The orchestration is just one big muffled mess. NO HIGHS at all, and of course, the HISSS overpowers the beautiful delicacies of the score. I know I know, "but it was a MONO recording you big dope!" Yes, I understand that but come on folks, when I put my original VHS recording from the 80s on it sounds a million times better than this so called "remastered" mess.

And then their is the distortion, yep, distortion. You know the kind you would get (again, back in the 80s and 90s) when you were recording a cd to cassette but had your recording level set to high? Geeze, its bad enough they cant take out any hiss, but to then over power their "tools" by boosting the volume to high? The muchkins "Lullaby Leaugue" is almost painful with that distortion. How can this happen?

Bottom line folks, their is no excuse for this. Read all the 5 star reviews you want but notice hardly any comment about the actual audio quality. I couldn't wait to get this, and man, I am heartbroken. Our best hope is that perhaps we can get a new soundtrack based off of the recent BLU-Ray edition. That might be our salvation here. The copyright on this edition is 1995, so lets hope 2009/2010 will redeem this travesty!
Write your own review
More free music notes:
1 2 3 4 5 6

The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition Poster

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

Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in The Most Excellent Children's Films' Soundtracks - Part Two
Parent Trap ImageGeorge Thorogood & The Destroyers, Jakaranda - Parent Trap
Release date: 1998-07-28; Music CD
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops: $13.98
Hook: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ImageHook: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release date: 1991-11-26; Music CD
Best price: $10.00
Princess Bride ImagePrincess Bride
Warner Brothers; Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $4.93
Price in other shops: $7.98
Labyrinth: From The Original Soundtrack Of The Jim Henson Film ImageDavid Bowie, Trevor Jones - Labyrinth: From The Original Soundtrack Of The Jim Henson Film
Release date: 2007-05-21; Music CD
Best price: $5.52
Price in other shops: $8.94
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory: Music From The Original Soundtrack Of The Paramount Picture ImageAnthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse - Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory: Music From The Original Soundtrack Of The Paramount Picture
Release date: 1996-10-08; Published: 1996; Music CD
Best price: $4.77
Price in other shops: $9.98
The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition ImageThe Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition
Release date: 1995-07-18; Music CD
Best price: $15.61
Price in other shops: $24.98
The Corpse Bride ImageDanny Elfman - The Corpse Bride
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-09-20; Music CD
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops: $11.98
The Prince Of Egypt: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ImageOriginal Soundtrack - The Prince Of Egypt: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release date: 1998-11-17; Published: 1998; Music CD
Best price: $0.86
Price in other shops: $18.98
Top Rated Albums
Wizard of Oz Magnetic Play Set ImageWizard of Oz Magnetic Play Set
Ata Boy; Toy
Price in other shops: $9.99
Wizard of Oz Sticker Picture: With 27 Reusable Peel-and-Apply Stickers (Sticker Picture Books) ImageWizard of Oz Sticker Picture: With 27 Reusable Peel-and-Apply Stickers (Sticker Picture Books)
by Cathy Beylon
Dover Publications; Published: 1996-09-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.72
Price in other shops: $5.95
The Sound of Music (1965 Film Soundtrack - 40th Anniversary Special Edition) ImageThe Sound of Music (1965 Film Soundtrack - 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
RCA; Release date: 2005-11-08; Music CD
Best price: $7.85
Price in other shops: $9.99
The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition) ImageThe Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2009-09-29; DVD
Best price: $12.45
Price in other shops: $24.98
Wizard of Oz: Dorothy Barbie Doll ImageWizard of Oz: Dorothy Barbie Doll
Mattel; Mattel; Release date: 2007-01-15; Toy
Best price: $27.99
Price in other shops: $34.99
The Wizard Of Oz: 1998 Cast Recording (Madison Square Garden Cast) ImageE. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen - The Wizard Of Oz: 1998 Cast Recording (Madison Square Garden Cast)
Release date: 1998-09-15; Music CD
Best price: $9.39
Price in other shops: $17.98
Wizard of Oz and Friends Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books) ImageWizard of Oz and Friends Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books)
by Pat Stewart
Dover Publications; Published: 1997-04-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.62
Price in other shops: $1.50
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Book (Colour Books) ImageThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Book (Colour Books)
by L. Frank Baum
Dover Publications; Published: 1974-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.66
Price in other shops: $4.99
The Wizard of Oz (1988 London Cast) ImageE. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen - The Wizard of Oz (1988 London Cast)
Release date: 2000-04-18; Music CD
Best price: $12.22
Price in other shops: $18.98
Mary Poppins ImageMary Poppins
Disney; Release date: 2004-11-16; Music CD
Best price: $13.87
Price in other shops: $18.98
Books | Health and Personal Care | Beauty | Digital Cameras and Photo | Kitchen and Housewares | Tools and Hardware
Copyright © 2005-2007 musicnear.com
Google
 
Web musicnear.com
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles