Dixie Chicken

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Everything came together for Little Feat's third album. An expanded lineup gave the Feat a more supple rhythmic base, Lowell George penned some of his strongest numbers, and they developed an oozy studio sound that suited them to a T. The title track, "Fat Man in a Bathtub," and "Two Trains" distilled compounded rhythms, wailing background vocals, and adroit wordplay into an intoxicating soul-rock swill. In many ways, Dixie Chicken stands as a kind of kissing cousin to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, which hit the streets one year earlier. While not as expansive as the Stones' magnum opus, its highlights are every bit as spectacular. --Steve Stolder

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Dixie Chicken

Average customer rating: Their best next to Sailin' Shoes Great CD Thirty Six Minutes of Pleasure Little Feat's serious album Music doesn't get any better than this

Dixie Chicken Little Feat Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock Jam Bands | Jam Bands | Rock | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Dynasty | Warner Brothers Records | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sailin' Shoes Feats Don't Fail Me Now Little Feat Waiting for Columbus Time Loves a Hero ASIN: B000002KEP Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Dixie Chicken
2. Two Trains
3. Roll Um Easy
4. On Your Way Down
5. Kiss It Off
6. Fool Yourself
7. Walkin All Night
8. Fat Man In The Bathtub
9. Juliette
10. Lafayette Railroad

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Everything came together for Little Feat's third album. An expanded lineup gave the Feat a more supple rhythmic base, Lowell George penned some of his strongest numbers, and they developed an oozy studio sound that suited them to a T. The title track, "Fat Man in a Bathtub," and "Two Trains" distilled compounded rhythms, wailing background vocals, and adroit wordplay into an intoxicating soul-rock swill. In many ways, Dixie Chicken stands as a kind of kissing cousin to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, which hit the streets one year earlier. While not as expansive as the Stones' magnum opus, its highlights are every bit as spectacular. --Steve Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Their best next to Sailin' Shoes.......2006-04-10

Dixie Chicken is Little Feat's third album and is regarded among longtime fans as their best work. Like their previous albums, Little Feat and Sailin' Shoes, Dixie Chicken would garner much critical acclaim but slow sales. The album also showed a change in direction in their music. While Sailin' Shoes was steeped in country, blues, and boogie music, Dixie Chicken is laid back and funkier. This would also be the album to debut longtime Feat members Paul Barrere, Sam Clayton, and Kenny Gradney. Barrere, in particular, would play a pivotal role in the band, gradually writing more songs with their later releases and would be the major voice of the band when they regrouped in 1988.

But Lowell George was still the star of the show on Dixie Chicken, writing most of the songs and adding those gruff distinctive lead vocals to every track. As for the songs, they're all very good although I believe the tracks on Sailin' Shoes are slightly better overall. The title track is to this day the band's best and most memorable song, featuring clever wordplay and slide guitar from George and a memorable piano hook from Bill Payne. Country superstar Garth Brooks would later do a respectable cover of this in the `90s, in effect introducing the greatness of Little Feat to a whole new audience. "Fat Man in the Bathtub", another one of George's great story songs, is arguably their second best track with Richie Hayward lending the opening hook with his busy drum line. While the rest of the tracks aren't as widely known, they're all very strong. Songs like the funky "Two Trains", the rollicking "Walkin' All Night", and the dark blues of "On Your Way Down" show George in all of his glory with some of the sweetest slide playing you'll ever hear and the female backing vocals, performed by future superstar Bonnie Raitt among others, providing a nice touch. Another great track is "Fool Yourself", which was written by Fred Tackett, who would later join Little Feat when they reunited for the Let It Roll album and continues to play a major role in the band. "Lafayette Railroad" is a cool instrumental that the band continues to play live while "Juliette", with its arrangement and solemn flute line, recalls a livelier version of Traffic. "Roll Um Easy" and "Kiss It Off" are both very laid back tunes with George's vocals providing the perfect accompaniment. All told, Dixie Chicken is one of the best works from one of the finest American rock bands. Highly recommended.

Great CD.......2005-08-17

One of the best CD's I own. You can actually stand to listen to the entire CD, it's not one of those you buy just for a song or two. TWO TRAINS is a great track, as is the comical DIXIE CHICKEN, FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB is also an excellent track.
ROLL EM EASY is beautiful, just a beautiful song. Great lyrics with simple guitar.

All of the albums with Lowell George are worth buying, but this is the must have.

Thirty Six Minutes of Pleasure.......2005-04-24

Back in the day albums came on two sides and had artwork that rivaled the best contemporary art. In those days an Album was a work of art, not a product to be shifted. If you have not yet heard this CD, get out that credit card and choose overnight shipping. You will thank me.

I came across Little Feat a few years ago by way of trading Grateful Dead, Phish and Dave Matthews Band bootlegs. I downloaded a complete show from 1973 from sharingthegroove.org. Well the RIAA took down Sharingthegrove with a lawsuit (guess they want everyone to pay for the groove), but I still have that bootleg. And one week later I owned ever official recorded piece of music Lowell George and company produced. Take that Hillary Rosen!

You may have heard "Dixie Chicken" by way of Garth Brooks. Get that version out of your mind right now. He didn't get it. This isn't country music, it's immersed in the blues --Lowell George's language. Fried in the blues may be more accurate-- blues infatuated with New Orleans R&B and mellow jamming. Get this first and go forwards and then backwards though the little feat catalog. And think, where else can you find over a half hour of bliss for less than 10.99?

Little Feat's serious album.......2004-09-26

Little Feat went on to create an album that wasn't a "hit parade" like the previous one, "Sailin' Shoes", but was more smoothly-flowing and stylish. Here, the overall mood is rather serious - only the superb title track with it's nice piano opening and powerful female backing vocals, the amusingly titled "Fat Man in the Bathtub", and perhaps to some extent, "Two Trains", represent the fun-loving side of LF. From the productive pen of Allen Toussaint came the slow, pensive "On Your Way Down" with a message worth listening to... "Fool Yourself" and "Juliette" are pretty much chipped from the same stone, both melodic pop songs made memorable by George's high pitched singing throughout. "Lafayette Railroad" is a surprisingly enjoyable instrumental despite being so simplistic. Kenny Gradney's bass repeating a simple riff over Richard Hayward's calm drumming, and the guitar weaving melodic lines throughout. Laid-back, and so soothing.

Style as well as substance, but the fun was saved for the next album, where LF took things a bit more lightly...

Music doesn't get any better than this.......2004-09-16

It would be accurate to describe Little Feat in its original configuration as a very good band fronted by a genius, but it doesn't adequately acknowledge just how very, very good the other members of the band were. Lowell George was on a totally different level than the other members, but they weren't dispensable for all that. Although both LITTLE FEAT and SAILIN' SHOES, their first two albums, are exceedingly close to being as fine as the masterful DIXIE CHICKEN, what separates the latter for the previous two is the astonishingly accomplished playing of the other band members. George remains the focal point of the group, writing an exceptional set of songs and providing powerful lead vocals, but far more than the earlier two albums, the rest of the band holds its own. Stylistically, this one shows a deep influence by New Orleans music, and even features an Allen Toussaint tune.

Although they went on to release a couple of more decent albums before their break up in the late 1970s, as well as an exceptional live album WAITING FOR COLUMBUS, this represents Little Feat's supreme studio achievement. Absolutely everything clicks on this album, and the eclectic nature of all the songs seems utterly natural. The band manages throughout the album to sound simultaneously restrained and impassioned. Unlike many bands who work in a variety of styles, they never sound like they are doing a parody of any genre.

Despite the improvements in the band as a whole, this is still Lowell George's outfit. George undoubtedly belongs to a short list of musicians whose premature death (of a heart attack at age 34) deprived us of a significant body of work. I have been amazed at how many of my musically astute friend are not aware of George. I'm uncertain whether I most appreciate Lowell George the songwriter or Lowell George the singer. There is no question he was a master crafter of first rate songs, but he was every bit as good as a singer, with a full, round lower register capable of sliding into a marvelous upper range.

For those new to Little Feat, I strongly recommend four albums to the would-be collector. In addition to this stellar album, one should get both LITTLE FEAT and SAILIN' SHOES, both of them featuring one of the finest songs written in the past 30 years, George's spectacular "Willin'." I never saw Little Feat live, I'm sorry to say, but they had a reputation for being one of the best live bands around, and their WAITING FOR COLUMBUS has to rank as one of the better live albums ever cut. Little Feat broke up in the late seventies and reformed in the late 1980s, but without George they were merely a good band instead of a great one. These four albums will give most fans all the Little Feat that they would ever desire.

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Dixie Chicken Little Feat Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sailin' Shoes Feats Don't Fail Me Now Little Feat Down on the Farm The Last Record Album ASIN: B000O76PCQ Release Date: 2007-06-04

Tracks:

1. Dixie Chicken
2. Two Trains
3. Roll Um Easy
4. On Your Way Down
5. Kiss It Off
6. Fool Yourself
7. Walkin' All Night
8. Fat Man in the Bathtub
9. Juliette
10. Lafayette Railroad

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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At This Stage...30 Years at the Wheatland Music Festival The Mammals; Lost World String Band; Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group; Johnny Gimble; The Chicken Chokers; Blue Highway; Tim and Mollie O'Brien with Jerry Douglas; Guy Davis; Dewey Balfa; The Dixie Hummingbirds Manufacturer: White Pine Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000OIOSOM Release Date: 2004-10-22

Tracks:

1. The House Carpenter / Pipeline (The Mammals)
2. Sweet Sue, Just You (Lost World String Band)
3. Don't You Want to Go to Heaven? (Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group)
4. Under the X in Texas (Johnny Gimble)
5. Saro Jane (The Chicken Chokers)
6. Don't Come Out of the Hole (Blue Highway)
7. Orphan Girl (Tim and Mollie O'Brien with Jerry Douglas)
8. Home-Cooked Meal (Guy Davis)
9. Fiddlesticks / Lost Indian (Dewey Balfa)
10. Some Day (Blue Highway)
11. Gardenia Waltz (Johnny Gimble)
12. Jesus is Coming Soon (The Dixie Hummingbirds)
13. Lord, I Want You to Help Me (The Dixie Hummingbirds)
14. Saturday 1:00AM

Product Description

The Wheatland Music Festival is a staple of the folk music scene in Michigan and the entire midwest region. Through a partnership with the Wheatland Music Organization, we have been able to put together a compilation album of live performances over the past 30 years on the Wheatland grounds. The album contains a baker's dozen of selections from the Festival's archives, along with a bonus sound collage that gives a taste of what you might hear on a midnight walk around the grounds. The multimedia portion of this Enhanced CD includes full listings of the Main Stage performers of Wheatland by name or by year and a selection of photos from the festival.

Average customer rating: A Collection of the Original Oz Stage Productions Ain't it a Shame! Why the 1903 "Wizard" was forgotten A long overdue revisit to a classic American musical Long-Forgotten Broadway Hit Gets First Rate Revival

The Wizard of Oz - Vintage Recordings from the 1903 Broadway Musical Manufacturer: Original Cast Record ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Shirley Temple Storybook Collection: Land of Oz/The Reluctant Dragon Shock Treatment (1981) The Wizard Of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition Into the Woods The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00009MPYQ

Tracks:

1. Wizard of OzSelection (Arthur Pryor's Band)
2. The Bullfrog and the Coon (Ada Jones)
3. Pocahontas (Edward M. Favor)
4. Daisy Donohue (Harry Tally)
5. Down on the Brandywine (Collins & Harlan)
6. Come Take a Skate with Me Sung (Collins & Harlan)
7. I Love You All the Time (Harry Macdonough)
8. The Moon Has His Eyes on You (Ada Jones)
9. When You Love, Love, Love (Thomas E. Whitbred)
10. When We Get Whats a-Comin to Us
11. Mister Dooley Sung (Edward M. Favor)
12. Julie Dooley (J. W. Myers)
13. Meet Me Down at the Corner (Jones & Spencer)
14. Budweisers a Friend of Mine (Billy Murray)
15. Theres a Lot of Things You Never Learn at School (Bob Roberts)
16. Under a Panama (Billy Murray)
17. Good Bye Fedora (Collins & Harlan)
18. Sitting Bull (Collins & Harlan)
19. I Love Only One Girl in this Wide Wide World (Harry Macdonough)
20. Sammy (Harry Macdonough)
21. The Tale of a Stroll (Morgan & Stanley)
22. Cant You See Im Lonely? (Ada Jones)
23. Are You Sincere? (Byron G. Harlan)
24. Hurrah for Baffins Bay (Collins & Harlan)
25. Football (Dan W. Quinn)
26. Id Like to Go Halves in That (Burt Shepard)
27. Rejoice!The Wizard is No Longer King
28. The Traveler and the Pie
29. Must You? (Dan W. Quinn)
30. Thats Where She Sits All Day (Dan W. Quinn)
31. The Sweetest Girl in Dixie (Henry Burr)
32. Scarecrow Laugh (Fred Stone)

Tracks:

1. Sammy Mira (Music Box Disc)
2. Must You? (Mira Music Box Disc)
3. Opening Prayer
4. Phantom Patrol
5. Just a Simple Girl from the Prairie
6. Poppy Song
7. Love is Love
8. When We Get What's A-Comin' to Us
9. The Traveler and the Pie
10. When You Love, Love, Love
11. Rejoice! The Wizard is No Longer King
12. Phantom Patrol (Aeolian Piano Roll)
13. My Little Maid of Oz Aeolian Piano Roll
14. The Tik-Tok Man of OzSelection (Rythmodik Piano Roll)
15. The Tik-Tok Man of OzSelection (Piano Roll)
16. Ask the Flowers to Tell You (Macdonough & Dunlap)
17. My Beautiful Dream Girl (John Barnes Wells)
18. My Pretty Little Piece of Dresden China (Bessie Wynn)
19. Gay Paree (Montgomery & Stone)
20. Travel Travel Little Star (Montgomery & Stone)
21. A Scotch Moriah (Montgomery & Stone)
22. Hurrah for Baffins Bay (Dan W. Quinn)
23. Daisy Donohue (Trombone Solo by Arthur Pryor)
24. Mr. DooleyMedley (Xylophone Solo J. Frank Hopkins)
25. Down on the BrandywineMedley (Edison Military Band)
26. The Bullfrog and the CoonMedley (Six Brown Brothers)
27. Ill Take You Back to Italy (Ada Jones & Billy Murray)
28. Father Goose Songs (Sallie Osbourne)

Album Description

The Wizard of Oz a musical with book and lyrics by L. Frank Baum and music by Paul Tietjens premiered on June 16, 1902, at the Grand Opera House in Chicago. It was an instant hit and made stars of David Montgomery (the Tin Woodman) and Fred Stone (the Scarecrow). On January 21, 1903 the show opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York. It ran for nine months and set out on the road with a second company right on its heels. The show toured, came back to New York, toured, and returned to New York again many times until finally disbanding around 1911. Stock and amateur companies continued to present it into the 1930s when it was overshadowed by the classic MGM film starring Judy Garland.

The show was legendary for its success and its impact on American culture. It was the Cats or Les Mis of the early 1900s--but the show has been swallowed by history. What made audiences of the early 1900s devour the show and return for more again and again? In this unprecedented 2-CD set—featuring over 145 minutes of vintage recordings and 64 pages of lyrics, photos, notes and synopsis—you can discover how The Wizard of Oz entertained the American public for the first two decades of the 20th century. And like the audiences of nearly a hundred years ago, you can hum along to "Budweiser," "Sammy," and "Hurrah for Baffin's Bay"—everyone's favorite songs from The Wizard of Oz! Also included in this comprehensive collection are recordings from later Oz musicals, The Woggle-Bug and The Tik-Tok Man of Oz written by Oz creator L. Frank Baum, as well as vintage non-Oz recordings by original "Wizard of Oz stars" Montgomery & Stone and Bessie Wynn

Customer Reviews:

A Collection of the Original Oz Stage Productions.......2006-12-07

This Double-Disk Collection contains music from the original and varied Oz Stage Productions: "the Wizard of Oz", "the Woggle-Bug" (based on 'Marvelous Land of Oz) and "the Tik-Tok Man of Oz" (based on 'Ozma of Oz'). There are plenty of "Wizard" songs and music, but there isn't a lot of "Woggle-Bug" and/or "Tik-Tok Man".
I often wondered how different the 1st & Original Production of 'Oz Wizard' was different to the book, and thanks to Mark Evan Schwartz's book "Oz: Before the Rainbow" I found out for myself (WORTH A READ!!). Later I got this CD to go along with the book's stage telling (more or less) and I listened in interest to the songs which, I read, were entirely different to the future Musicals of Oz. The songs are good, but not all of them are actually completely restored to perfection, so the singing may/will sound somewhat muffled. Also, due to the time it was made (for some reason), the songs don't actually fit into the story (even the stage's rewritten story) and sound distant/unrelated. But there are songs that sound similar to the original story ("Rejoice! The Wizard is No Longer King"). CD 2's Track 3 has music played during Silent Oz Film "His Majesty, Scarecrow" on the MGM 3-Disk DVD.
The best thing about this CD Collection is the two booklets packaged along with the disks: the first (entitled "The Records") has writing on "What the Wizard Was" with a synopsis of the stage production story and "About the Recordings", a listing of all the songs on CD 1 (which are helpful for "Selection" Tracks not specifically named on the back) and notes on the songs like their origins and background. Booklet 2 (entitled "The Lyrics") has the words to the songs (in case you can't make out the words/want to sing-along). BOTH CDs include b&w photos of the actors, performance (few of which can be seen in "Oz: Before the Rainbow" book) and even reprints of a few illustrations made for the stage. The pictures are the best part of this purchase.
The Entirely Different Songs may not fit with the story, original or rewritten, but there's nothing really wrong with the music when one enjoys to what they're listening to.
I know that there is also another 'Oz on Stage' CD Collection called "Before the Rainbow" . . . hmmm, I wonder if I should get that too?

Ain't it a Shame!.......2006-05-20

I think that this is a wonderful album of HISTORICAL value. Not too many people know this, but "the wizard of oz" was made into a smash hit in 1903, but because all the history was BARELY in obscurity, hungry tiger press wanted to educate the blockheads in the world about this remarkable piece of history. that being said, david maxine collected all of the old material, such as Piano rolls (my especial favorite of all of them is "the poppy song", i LOVE the bass notes: "nnn-ded-deh mmmm-ded-deh"), and music boxes, and cylinders, and records!
however, it is quite a shame that that CRAPPY movie with judy garland pushed this lovely musical into obscurity. i would have liked to see it in my day, but it was already lost in darkness, but thanks to the highly DIGNIFIED people in the world, this cd is available!! BUY IT!!!! I *ORDER* YOU!!! YOU CANNOT BE DIGNIFIED WITHOUT THIS REPLACING YOUR "RAP" GARBAGE WITH THIS JEWEL!!!!

Why the 1903 "Wizard" was forgotten.......2004-03-20

This truly remarkable 2-disc collection of old cylinders, discs, music boxes and piano rolls explains why the 1903 musical version of "The Wizard of Oz" did not survive the early thirties. It wasn't because it was before its time or even of its time, but simply because it was way behind the times. Its producers resisted composer's Paul Tietjens' attempts to write plot-driven numbers. His contribution survives only in the incidental music preserved on piano rolls (and the most interesting element on this collection) linking very disparate and even incongruous vaudeville acts by various authors and performers that graced the stage during the musical's multi-decade run. In other words, Baum was telling a story and the songs were telling another... As fascinating as they are for historical reasons, those numbers are commonplace, mostly uninspired flash-in-the-tin-pan ditties, with timid syncopation and a stong reliance on musical clichés. There is not a single standard among them and not even a decent lyric where "fine" doesn't rhyme with "mine" and "love you" doesn't rhyme with "I do"- or even "I know you know I know you do", as happens more than once. As an assemblage of shtick pieces and ephemeral sentimental or nonsensical ditties, this collection cannot be topped and it represents a monumental effort. Without it and its very generous and informative liner notes, I would not have the same appreciation for the absolute genius of Victor Herbert's operettas ("Babes in Toyland" came out the same year) where the more memorable songs are plot-driven and introduced and linked by the most luscious, inventive and varied incidental music ever heard outside an opera house. This sort of unified concept would culminate in Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" and it remains a truth today that the integration of plot and music - reminiscent of opera - is the true secret of successful and perennial musicals, whatever the current idiom. This collection also makes one appreciate the complete originality of the Hollywood film for actually going back to Baum's books, entrusting the songs, lyrics and music to Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg and Herbert Stothart and scrapping the musical's colourful but checkered history (except for casting ex-vaudevillians as the main characters, of course!). Highly recommended for its nostalgia value, its irreplaceable rarities and a better understanding of the history of American popular music.

A long overdue revisit to a classic American musical.......2003-09-30

Although it was one of the most financially successful stage musicals of the early 1900's, very little information is presently available on the 1903 production of THE WIZARD OF OZ. In what was obviously a labor of love, David Maxine has done much to correct this oversight by releasing a 2-CD set with over 145 minutes worth of extremely rare recordings of music from this and other OZ-themed musicals dating back to before World War I. Recorded materials include vintage acoustical disc and cylinder phonograph records, piano rolls, and music box discs, many of which go back almost a century. In addition, he has included two booklets worth of historical background information on the 1903 WIZARD OF OZ production, its stars, the individual musical numbers, and lyrics for the songs included on the CDs. (Lavishly illustrated with rare old black and white photos and artwork, these booklets, and the information they contain, are themselves worth the price of the set!) Several bonus CD tracks are included that offer rare recordings by Montgomery & Stone (the original Tin Woodsman and Scarecrow) and Bessie Wynn, who was also in the 1903 cast. Not just for dedicated Oz fans, this set is a "must have" for anyone interested in the history of American musical theater and American popular culture of the early 1900's.

Long-Forgotten Broadway Hit Gets First Rate Revival.......2003-09-17

One hundred and three years ago, author L. Frank Baum published the best-selling children's book of the 20th century, THE WIZARD OF OZ. Although the book was adapted several times as plays, silent motion pictures, animated cartoons, and radio shows in the next few decades, it is the 1939 MGM film that most people think of as THE WIZARD OF OZ. The success and popularity of that film completely eclipsed the memories of previous incarnations and even the book itself in popular culture. However, prior to the film's release, there was a successful stage version which premiered on Broadway in 1903 and delighted audiences for many years, making stars of Fred Stone and David Montgomery, the original Scarecrow and Tinman. As with the MGM film, chilren who saw THE WIZARD OF OZ on stage carried fond memories of the production into adulthood. Ray Bolger was so impressed with the Fred Stone's Scarecrow, that he remembered it vividly as an adult and based his own protrayal of the character in the movie on Mr. Stone's stage version.

Unfortunately, time and Judy Garland have pushed the once popular Broadway Smash into history. It has been all but forgotten...until now.

As the show moved from theater to theater and casts changed, so did the songs. Many of these were recorded on the primative equipment of the day: Wax cylinders, 78-RPM records, piano rolls, and music Boxes, and surprisingly many of these still exist. Now, thanks to those hard-working gents at HUNGRY TIGER PRESS, you can own these historic recordings on this awesome 2-CD set. THE WIZARD OF OZ: Vintage Recordings From The 1903 Broadway Musical contains over 145 minutes of terrific early 20th century music. You won't find "Over the Rainbow" or "Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead!" here. Instead, this WIZARD OF OZ contains tracks like "Budweiser's a Friend of Mine", "Sammy", "Hurrah for Baffin's Bay", and "Rejoice! The Wizard is No Longer King", each one a portal over the rainbow to the Broadway stage of a century ago.

Obviously the play was quite different in plot from the movie--Dorothy travelled to Oz with her cow Imogene instead of Toto, for starters--, but the songs represent the style of popular music of 100 years ago and are collected here in a beautiful compilation. The set contains two booklets of liner notes which contain credits, lyrics, a written history of the production, and are extensively illustrated with photos and illustrations. Although the sound quality of the source material is not always up to today's standards, the songs are presented in the best versions possible, and the music is highly enjoyable. With 60 tracks and the wealth of information contained here, both written and photographic, this 2-CD set is good value for the money. A must-have for all collectors of WIZARD OF OZ memorabilia, an insightful look at popular music and Broadway history from a century ago, a glimpse into ethnic and racial stereotypes that were accepted at the time, and a curiosity for fans of the 1939 film, this set is big on appeal. Kudos to the Hungry Tiger Press for rescuing this treasure trove of musical history from obscurity!

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