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The Wiz (soundtrack)

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The Wiz is the original motion picture soundtrack album for the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz. [1]

40 relations: A Brand New Day (The Wiz song), AllMusic, Anthony Jackson (musician), Ashford & Simpson, Bad (album), Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Broadway theatre, Charlie Smalls, De Passe Entertainment, Diana Ross, Disco, Ease on Down the Road, Home (The Wiz song), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Lena Horne, Luther Vandross, Mabel King, MCA Inc., MCA Records, Michael Jackson, Motown, Nipsey Russell, Off the Wall, Pop music, Quincy Jones, Rhythm and blues, Richard Pryor, Soul music, Soundtrack album, Ted Ross, The Wiz, The Wiz (film), Thelma Carpenter, Theresa Merritt, Thriller (Michael Jackson album), Tom Bahler, Universal Pictures, You Can't Win (song).

A Brand New Day (The Wiz song)

"A Brand New Day", also known as "Everybody Rejoice", is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz written by American R&B singer and songwriter Luther Vandross.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Anthony Jackson (musician)

Anthony Jackson, (June 23, 1952, New York, New York) is a Grammy-nominated American bassist and session musician based in New York City.

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Ashford & Simpson

Ashford & Simpson were a husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).

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Bad (album)

Bad is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on August 31, 1987 in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Charlie Smalls

Charlie Smalls (October 25, 1943 – August 27, 1987) was an African-American composer and songwriter, best known for writing the music accompaniment to playwright William F. Brown's 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, later adapted to a 1978 film version of the same name, by Motown Productions in collaboration with Universal Pictures, and starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.

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De Passe Entertainment

de Passe Entertainment is an American film and television production company run by entertainment executive Suzanne de Passe.

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Diana Ross

Diana Ernestine Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Ease on Down the Road

"Ease on Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, an R&B re-interpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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Home (The Wiz song)

"Home" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical, The Wiz.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Luther Vandross

Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mabel King

Mabel Elizabeth King (née Washington; December 25, 1932 – November 9, 1999) was an American film, stage, and television actress, and singer.

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MCA Inc.

MCA Inc.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Nipsey Russell

Julius "Nipsey" Russell (September 15, 1918 – October 2, 2005) was an American comedian, best known for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid.

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Off the Wall

Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979 in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and social critic.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.

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Ted Ross

Theodore Ross Roberts (June 30, 1934 – September 3, 2002), known as Ted Ross, was an American actor who was probably best known for his role as the Lion in The Wiz, an all-African American reinterpretation of ''The Wizard of Oz''.

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The Wiz

The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown.

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The Wiz (film)

The Wiz is a 1978 American musical adventure film produced by Universal Pictures and Motown Productions, and released by Universal Pictures on October 24, 1978.

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Thelma Carpenter

Thelma Carpenter (January 15, 1922 – May 14, 1997) was a jazz singer and actress, best known as "Miss One", the Good Witch of the North in the movie The Wiz.

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Theresa Merritt

Theresa Merritt Hines (September 24, 1922 June 12, 1998) was an American stage, film, and television actress and singer.

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Thriller (Michael Jackson album)

Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 30, 1982, in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Tom Bahler

Thomas Lee Bahler (also spelled Bähler; born June 1, 1943), is an American singer, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, and author.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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You Can't Win (song)

"You Can't Win" is an R&B, pop and soul song written by Charlie Smalls and performed by American recording artist Michael Jackson, who played Scarecrow in the 1978 musical film The Wiz,Jones (2002), pp.

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Redirects here:

The Wiz (1978 soundtrack), The Wiz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(soundtrack)

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