The Wizard Of Oz Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music Cd

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The Wizard Of Oz: Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack      Artist(s) : Herbert Stothart, Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-09-19      Studio : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)      Label : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)      Avg. Customer Rating : (28 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Wizard Of Oz Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack      Bad sound quality      Rating:      I was very disappointed with this purchase. The sound quality is terrible! I had to turn it down during the music sequences and crank it up to hear anyone singing. It sounds like someone put a recorder up next to the TV screen and recorded it while watching the movie.     Customer Reviews for The Wizard Of Oz Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Cd      For the "Wizard of Oz" Fan      Rating:      Bought this as a gift for a "Wizard of Oz" fanatic. He loved it and listens to it often. Editorial Reviews for The Wizard Of Oz Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Audio Cd      Amazon.com      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 (an even more detailed, expanded version was also released simultaneously as a deluxe box) 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 discreet songs and multi-themed 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 here, of course, precisely where it should be in the sequence, as as timelessly luminous and wistful as ever. --Sam Sutherland