ABOUT
THE DISC & RECORDINGS:
To coincide with the television premiere of The Wizard Of Oz on November 3, 1956,
MGM Records released the first soundtrack
album
of "Musical and Dramatic Selections Recorded
Directly From The Sound Track" of the
film. This was innovative at the time, as the
record
contained enough dialog and music to
seamlessly present the entire story of the
film. Oddly enough, it did not include any
references to the ruby slippers.
None of
these soundtrack performances had ever been
presented
on record before. The closest thing to a "soundtrack"
was the Decca
Records album of songs from the
film, recorded at the Decca studios. The only
song missing is "The Merry Old Land Of
Oz".
Instead, the remainder of side two completes
the story via the dialog and music and Bert
Lahr's "If I Were King Of The Forest"..
This version of the soundtrack would remain in print, with
varying changes in cover art, through 1989 when CBS Special
Products released an "expanded
version" on CD.
All images on this page from the collections of Scott Brogan
and Eric Hemphill. |
 
Front and back of the U.K. version, also released in 1956, possibly 1957.
Catalog #MGM-C-757, produced for M-G-M Records by E.M.I. Records
The cardboard on this copy was slighly warped.
Either that or the printing was off, hence the slightly tilted text. |
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TRACK LISTING
This album seamlessly presents both
dialog and songs from the film without separate tracks
for each song.
We've listed the songs separately here, along with details
culled from subsequent releases of the soundtrack.
Musical
and Dramatic Selections Recorded Directly
From The Sound Track of M-G-M's Technicolor
Film
"The Wizard Of Oz" |
Song
Title |
Performed
by... |
Date
Recorded |
Side
One - trt:
20:77 |
Main
Title |
The
M-G-M Studio Orchestra and Chorus |
05-06-1939
07-09-1939 |
Over
The Rainbow |
Judy
Garland |
10-07-1938 |
Munchkinland
Sequence |
Judy
Garland, Billie Burke, Billy Bletcher,
Joseft Kozlel, Frank Cucksey, Pinto Colveg,
J.D. Jewkes, Harry Stanton, Lorraine Bridges,
Betty Rome, Carol Tevis, Lois Clements
and The Munchkins |
12-14-1938
12-19-1938
12-22-1938
04-13-1939 |
If
I Only Had A Brain |
Ray
Bolger and Judy Garland |
02-28-1939 |
We're
Off To See The Wizard |
Judy
Garland and Ray Bolger |
10-11-1938 |
If
I Only Had A Heart |
Jack
Haley (Juliet's voice: Adriana Caselotti) |
10-01-1938
11-08-1938 |
We're
Off To See The Wizard |
Judy
Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen |
10-11-1938 |
If
I Only Had The Nerve |
Bert
Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Judy Garland |
09-30-1938 |
We're
Off To See The Wizard |
Judy
Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, and Bert
Lahr |
10-11-1938 |
Side
Two- trt:
19:50 |
If
I Were King Of The Forest |
Judy
Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, and Bert
Lahr |
10-11-1938 |
Dorothy's
Adventures In Oz
(dialog and music selections) |
Bert
Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Judy Garland,
Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan |
[various] |
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CREDITS
None listed.
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