Song 115 - The Wizard of Oz - Harold Arln and E.Y.Harburg

I hope people don't think putting The Wizard Oz in as an album of the week is a cheat as I have already had Over the Rainbow as a song for the day, but I think it is wrong to have an Oscar month that fails to mention The Wizard of Oz.

As well as winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the score for the move won Best Original Score, it was Herbert Stothart who composed the instrumental underscore. Since its premiere, the music reaches a new set of hearts every time one of the songs is played on the radio, television or streamed through web.  Who doesn't love The Wizard of Oz? The journey that Dorothy takes with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and the Lion is as a famous as any of the Grimm's Fairy tales and the Wicked Witch of the West is one of the most terrifying on-screen villains  for children.

Like I have said before; sometimes music is too precious for me to layer it up with my memories or associations with the song, it is also too widely written about to add any new other than saying this is a classic of musical film and if this soundtrack has been released in any year there is no doubt in my mind that this would have won the Oscar against any competing song or score in the whole oscar history.

To listen to the whole album again and have a magical start to the weekend:
Wizard of Oz full Soundtrack


Oscar for Best Song: 1939 for Over the Rainbow
Album: The Wizard of Oz
Written by Harold Arln, E.Y. Harburgh & Herbert Stothart.