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Judy Garland & Cast - The Wizard of Oz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Yellow]
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Follow the yellow brick road all the way to the turntable with The Wizard of Oz soundtrack on yellow vinyl, a perfect colour for the 1939 film that gave the world Over The Rainbow.
Few films have shaped popular song quite like this one. Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg wrote the numbers, Herbert Stothart's score stitched the fantasy together, and Judy Garland gave Dorothy a voice that still stops listeners in their tracks. More than 80 years on, these songs remain part of the shared musical language.
The album runs in story order, and Over The Rainbow sets the emotional bar sky high early on. Munchkinland bursts into colour with Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead, and extended versions of If I Only Had A Brain and its companion songs give Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr extra room to charm.
Collectors will find genuine curiosities too. The Jitterbug, cut from the finished film, survives here as an outtake, offering a glimpse of the movie that might have been, while the closing stretch sweeps from escape to the final credits in classic Hollywood style.
Bright, nostalgic and full of heart, it is a record for anyone who still feels a lump in the throat when Dorothy dreams of somewhere beyond the clouds.