1940 Wizard of Oz Album Download Decca Wizard of Oz Decca Set of 4-10 Inch 78 RPM Album $ 78
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1940 wizard of oz album download decca Wizard Of Oz Decca Set of 4-10 inch 78 RPM Album $ 78. I bought this records album a few year ago at a flea market here in Puerto Rico,I don't have a 78 rpm record player,I never test the records,in my opinion they are in great shape,no big scratches just the ones from regular use,they are dirty,just I don't now how or if the cleaning affects the valor of then,so I leave that to the buyer,the back of the front cover have a series of small canals made by a paper eating insect (s) pic 3,the mark on record 2672-B jitterbug, to the left is not a scratch is dirt, feel free to ask me any question or send me any opinion,I found in other internet site that the release year of this album was 1939, below is the information from Wikipedia,this is a rare album,bid wisely,FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE. Thanks. The Wizard of Oz (Decca) From Oz Wiki. In 1940, Decca released a set of 4, 10-inch, 78rpm records featuring songs from The Wizard of Oz. Although the set claims to be an "Original Cast Album", the songs were not, in fact, the versions used in the movie itself. In anticipation of the film's release, Decca had Judy Garland record "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "The Jitterbug" for a single release. The latter song was cut from the movie; in this version the Ken Darby Trio takes the part of the Cowardly Lion (Garney Bell), the Tin Woodman (Bud Lyon), and the Scarecrow (Harold Arlen, also the composer of the music). In early 1940, the two songs were packaged with other music from the movie, recorded by the Ken Darby Trio and backed by Victor Young and His Orchestra, to create this 4-disk set. Judy Garland is the only cast member to actually appear on the album. The inside of the covers included 22 stills from the movie with narrative text telling the entire story. There were also signatures from Judy Garland and the composers (Harold Arlen, and E.Y. Harburg). A 6-page foldout brochure was included with the set which contained a list of the songs from the four records and biographical notes on the composers. This set was later rereleased many times, on multiple formats, all the way until the 1980's. This entire album has not yet been released on CD, although Judy Garland's solo songs have appeared on various compilations. The Wizard of Oz [Original Soundtrack] [CBS Expanded] With its big budget, and with overseas markets closed due to the beginning of World War II, The Wizard of Oz, amazingly, was not a financial success during its initial theatrical run in 1939. Over the years, however, it became both a film classic and a perennial moneymaker for MGM, especially after the arrival of television and annual network broadcasts that attracted a new generation of young fans. Yet there had never been a real original soundtrack album. (Decca Records had put together what it confusingly called an "original cast album" in 1940, using two Judy Garland studio recordings and other versions of the songs sung by a chorus.) In 1956, MGM Records finally assembled an LP, which was simply an edited version of the actual film soundtrack. The picture ran 101 minutes, and the album cut that down to 40, including the major songs "Over the Rainbow," "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead," "We're Off to See the Wizard," "If I Only Had a Brain" (or "a heart" or "the nerve"), and "If I Were King of the Forest." Lots of Herbert Stothart's Academy Award-winning score was heard accompanying the dialogue by Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, and others, including such timeless lines as "Toto, I have feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"; "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"; and, finally, "There's no place like home." The LP had several reissues, the last one by MCA Classics in 1985. By 1989, with the ownership of the MGM film catalog in flux, CBS Records (soon to become Sony Music Entertainment) briefly acquired the rights and put out this expanded reissue, re-edited for the CD era and taking the recording up from 40 minutes to 75. That also included the cut song "The Jitterbug," which featured departed cast member Buddy Ebsen. (Turner later acquired the MGM catalog, and subsequent reissues, again re-configured, were issued on Rhino Records.) 1940 wizard of oz album download decca. For the ultimate "Wizard of Oz" collector. VERY RARE from 1939 - The Original Decca Album 74, the 1939 film soundtrack of "The Wizard of Oz" starring Judy Garland. Coveted by collectors everywhere, this is the rare 4 disk set of the soundtrack from the original MGM production. The ORIGINAL vintage album cover to the left features many pictures of scenes from the movie and is in fine shape with only average wear and tear. The 8 sides of recorded music are an excellent overall condition and are visually graded below. The set includes the 6 page brochure with biographical notes of the composers Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. Highly unlikely you will see this ORIGINAL 1939 "Wizard of Oz" treasure on the market again!! RARE "THE WIZARD OF OZ" DECCA RECORDS SOUNDTRACK 1939 $ 180. The Wizard of Oz (1939) is everybody's cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical from MGM during its golden years. For many seasons, it was featured regularly on network TV as a prime time event (its first two showings were on CBS television on November 3, 1956 and in December, 1959) and then annually for Thanksgiving, Christmas and/or Easter time. It soon became a classic institution, and a rite of passage for everyone, and probably has been seen by more people than any other motion picture over multiple decades. Initially, however, the film was not commercially successful (at $3 million), but it was critically acclaimed. All of its images (the Yellow Brick Road, the Kansas twister), characters (e.g., Auntie Em, Toto, Dorothy, the Wicked Witch), dialogue (e.g., "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!", "We're not in Kansas anymore," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," or the film's final line: "There's no place like home"), and music ("Over the Rainbow") have become indelibly remembered, and the classic film has been honored with dozens of books, TV shows (such as HBO's dramatic prison series Oz), references in other films, and even by pop groups (singer Elton John with his Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road album, or Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon). The film's plot is easily condensed: lonely and sad Kansas farmgirl Dorothy dreams of a better place, without torment against her dog Toto from a hateful neighbor spinster, so she plans to run away. During a fierce tornado, she is struck on the head and transported to a land 'beyond the rainbow' where she meets magical characters from her Kansas life transformed within her unconscious dream state. After travels down a Yellow Brick Road to the Land of Oz, and the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy and her friends are rewarded by the Wizard of Oz with their hearts' desires - and Dorothy is enabled to return home to Kansas. Dual Roles Many of the film's characters play two roles - one in Kansas and their counterparts in the Land of Oz, the locale of the young heroine's troubled dreams. Kansas Role Oz Role(s) Actor/Actress HunkScarecrowRay Bolger HickoryTin ManJack Haley ZekeCowardly LionBert Lahr Miss Almira GulchWicked Witch of the WestMargaret Hamilton Professor MarvelEmerald City Doorman/Cabbie/The Wizard's Guard/The Wizard of OzFrank Morgan The popular film was brilliantly adapted from L. Frank Baum's venerated children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (written in 1899 and published in 1900) by three credited writers Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and E.A. Woolf, and a team of many uncredited scriptwriters (including Arthur Freed, Herman Mankiewicz, Sid Silvers, and Ogden Nash). Langley insisted that the fantastical characters have real-life counterparts to make them more believable, as they had also existed in the 1925 silent film version. The first line of the book follows: "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife." The Wizard of Oz was first performed as an on-stage musical in 1902-03 in Chicago and New York. It premiered at the Grand Opera House in Chicago on June 16, 1902, and made stars of vaudeville team members David Montgomery (the Tin Woodman) and Fred Stone (the Scarecrow). On January 21, 1903, the show opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York. The show was so popular (the production tallied over 290 performances and was the longest running show of the decade) that it toured the country in road shows lasting until 1911. [Much more recently, New York City's Radio City Music Hall presented an annual, limited-run, live stage version of the 1939 MGM musical.] The book was made into films on many different occasions during the silent era. [Archivist Mark Evan Swartz' book Oz Before the Rainbow (2000) compiles an in-depth history of the evolution of Baum's work with all its stage and screen permutations up through the 1939 MGM musical version, and its significant cultural influences]: The Wizard of Oz (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910), with 9 year old Bebe Daniels as Dorothy and two other films from Selig Polyscope Company based on Baum's Oz: Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910), and The Land of Oz (1910) three times in 1914, all produced by Baum's own short-lived Oz Film Manufacturing Company The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914/15) - the closest to Baum's original