Home
The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]
Barnes and Noble
The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]
Current price: $23.99
![The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/0008811164928_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg)
![The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/0008811164928_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg)
Barnes and Noble
The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]
Current price: $23.99
Size: OS
Loading Inventory...
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Barnes and Noble
Director
's big-budget film version of
, an updated musical treatment of
with songs by
, is not remembered as one of the great movie musicals. But you wouldn't know that from this elaborate double-LP soundtrack album, on which
' Broadway score is augmented by music written by producer
,
, and
.
organized a studio band of New York jazz veterans, including
, and of course the cast provides spectacular vocal firepower in the persons of
and
. The result was a Top 40, gold-selling album paced by a Top 40 single of
by
(outperforming the 1975 version by
), as well as the chart single
. Much comparison was made between the vocal (not to mention the facial) resemblance between
; here's the only place to hear them together. ~ William Ruhlmann