Wizard of Oz soundtrack

popeye kid in we thank you very sweetly ftw

i do love "If I Only Had a Brain"

for some reason

Optimistic Voices

As Coroner I Must Aver is my faves of the munchkin suite – "you will be a bust, be a bust, be a bust, in the hall! of! fame!"

None of these is a wasted vote.

Write-in vote for "Yo E Oh, Yo Ho".

"If I Only Had A Brain" was the song my research partner and I would sing with each other to pull through writing our graduate thesis.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry

Write-in vote for "On The Run"

<3 that about half of these are in one scene.

Oh I could tell you why the ocean's near the shore
I would think of things I'd never thought before
And then I'd sit and think some more

Another vote for 'If I Only Had a Brain'.

Wot no Dark Side Of The Moon?
THunk that wuz supposed to be evidence of time travel the way those 2 supposedly dovetailed.

If I Only Had A Brain

What scene does "Optimistic Voices" accompany?

They have awoken from the poppies and are skipping towards oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nq34mISKUo

Oh of course, thanks. ("The Sopranos" used that one once)

If I Only Had a Heart

ha I can't read that without thinking of Fever Ray

My four year old is doing the 'play it again' thing with the film, so we got him the CD soundtrack for car trips. Have to confess I never knew the title or the (muffled on the soundtrack) line is "As Coroner I Must Aver..."

Heart/Brian/Nerve is an alltime trifecta.

Kind of a ridic unfair poll as one of the songs is arguably the pinnacle of material, performance, and star in the history of the Hollywood musical. Ten minutes in, too.

Among the comic ones, I love the Yip Harburg rhymes for the 3 clowns' theme songs, but Bert Lahr's "If I Were King Of The Forest" is a tour de farce. I've seen a bunch of his starring short films from the '30s, and nearly all the little fillips he throws into his Lion character -- "HUNHHH?," "Ain't it the truth?," the labored sobbing -- were part of his established comic repertoire.

Voted for "If I Were King Of The Forest", but it wasn't easy. Really can't deny that "Over the Rainbow" is beyond all-time, but I went with my childhood favorite.

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it was hard not to vote for "Rainbow," but...

I would not be just a nuffin'
my head all full of stuffin'
my heart all full of pain
and perhaps I'd deserve you, and be even worthy erv you
if I only had a brain

Only had a brain is warm childhood thoughts, and lollipop guild hits all the weirdo pleasure centers but over the rainbow is one of the greatest songs of all time

Like I know you're all sick of it but the reason it's so over-performed is because it's an amazingly written song

Thread needs this nice Nomi rendition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vXR5gjRMPk

I love how Nomi says "It really was no miracle! What happened was just this...."

voted for 'if i were king of the forest' which i love dearly and know by heart but have never had the nerve (haha) to recite to anyone.

jjusten otm

If I Were King of The Forest is all time, those rhymes still crack me up

If I were King of the Forest
Not queen, not duke, not prince.
My regal robes of the forest
Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.
I'd command each thing
be it fish or fowl
With a woof and a woof
and a royal growl - woof.
As I'd click my heel
all the trees would kneel.
And the mountains bow
and the bulls kowtow.
And the sparrow would take wing
- If I - If I - were King!
Each rabbit would show respect to me
The chipmunks genuflect to me
Though my tail would lash
I would show compash
For every underling!
If I - If I - were King!

And of course that exchange
WHAT MAKES THE HOTTENTOTS SO HOT
WHAT PUTS THE APE IN APRICOT
WHATTA THEY GOT THAT I AIN'T GOT
COURAGE
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN

The chipmunks genuflect to me is the best. Bert Lahr's delivery always always gives me the giggles

but all of it is awesome

Somewhere Over The Rainbow makes me cry like a baby

I didn't realize there were 26 songs in the wizard of oz! wow

and perhaps I'd deserve you, and be even worthy erv you

I don't think this line made the film version!

more like 17 songs and a few brief ditties

Like I know you're all sick of it but the reason it's so over-performed is because it's an amazingly written song

I'm not sick of it - I play it & "Brain"/"Heart"/"Noive" on guitar several times a week during songtime with aero jr.! This is what kinda woke me up to the genius of "Brain" - that bridge is really sneakily clever and its pathos is very understated ("perhaps I'd deserve you/and be even worth erv you").

I don't think this line made the film version!

! you're right - the one that made the film is "I would dance and be merry/life would be a ding-a-derry" which is imo not in the same class at all

now down the Oz rabbit hole again

original, lower-key take of "Brain" is wonderful! also has deserve you/worthy erv you ending verse after bridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46jBXzTE5k0

Nothing greater than singing Oz songs w/a little kid.
My friend's daughter would ask to sing Rainbow with me before she could hardly say any words. It was me singing and holding her and her humming along and saying rainbow rainbow rainbow. I think this is the #1 experience that convinced me I might want to be a mom some day! Maybe I'd have a little girl with a crush on the Tin Man just like she does. Or a little boy with one.

Rainbow just makes me wistful. I was always convinced as a little girl if I sang it beautifully enough – I'd get whisked away to Oz, too. Which never happened. This is my proof I'm not a good singer btw.

So many hours walking around town by myself trying to sing it perfectly!

i think the move toward greater and easier access to various media is a definite plus but there is a part of me that thinks it's at least a little bittersweet that the time has passed when if you wanted to see wizard of oz you had to wait for the one time a year it would come on tv and that was yr opp to see it. also everytime i think of wizard of oz i think of this and i laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRN43cVMHI

It is a little jarring that two of Dorothy's companions (Bolger and Haley) are audibly from Greater Boston:

"To Oz?"
"TO AWZ!"

Rubbish, if that were true the scarecrow would have been asking Oz to be wicked smaht.

Starman

i cd while away the hours
conversing with the flowers

I can remember watching a DVD extra that was test footage of the twister coupled with audio of a version of Over The Rainbow where she keeps crying? That shit was utterly devastating.

this Broadcast-ish song is amazing, shame the rest of the album its from is nowhere near as good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mRoVzh7zs

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apples & oranges

went and saw this in the park tonight, special evening showing. first time i'd actually sat down and watched it in like 6-7 years, and maybe the first time i'd properly paid attention to it since i was a kid. such a beautiful, sad, funny, perfect film.

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my other memory of Bert Lahr as a wee kid was from this Lays campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kht0Sab1TG0

WHADDA THEY GOT THAT I AIN'T GOT

have been meaning to read john lahr's bio of his dad for years.

did you know he was in 'waiting for godot'?

whadda they godot what i ain't etc

holy shit, that version is actually available for download on amazon!

yeah, sposedly Bert wanted to add some jokes; like when Pozzo shows up blind, to ask "Where are his pencils?"

the weird thing is that the US premiere was in Coconut Grove, FL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Lahr#Waiting_for_Godot

!!! I wonder if that's the inspiration for the really really wonderful short film that I thought was called "Godot Will Be Here Soon" but Google isn't turning up shit - about a pair of unemployed NYC actors who take a job doing Godot in iirc Tallahassee and nobody shows up and they end up breaking character onstage when they realize the one paid ticket has left