Harold Arlen

As one of Hollywood's most memorable films and perhaps the greatest screen adaptation of a novel ever the 1939 Wizard Of Oz brought the words to music entrenching the songs in popular culture and ensuring theirtimelessness. With this Piano Vocal and Guitar book you can learn every song from the hit movie. There were other film adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s book before and after it but the 1939 version starringJudy Garland remains the one where visual imagination and unforgettable songs gave us a definitive version. What 'Yip' Harburg and Harold Arlen created was a film bursting with unforgettable musical sequences putting theirtalented songwriting brains together to produce this most famous of musicals. Obviously a song like Over The Rainbow needs no introduction winning an Academy Award for resonating with our desire for something better and becoming especially prescient given the world war about to erupt. The rest of Harburg & Arlen’s songs for the film are just as evocative instantly conjuring Dorothy’s legendary journey from Kansasto Oz and back. An absolute pleasure to perform these songs belie their 75-year vintage and sound as fresh today as they did when audiences were first thrilled to hear them in the cinema. In this Wizard Of Ozsheet music song book every song from the film is included Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead We're Off To See The Wizard Follow The Yellow Brick Road If I Only Had A Brain and If I Only Had A Heart plus more. Arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar each fantastic song includes vocal melody Piano parts Guitar chord boxes and symbols and full lyrics. It really is everything you need tolearn the songs exactly as they were played and sung in the film version. You are guaranteed to enjoy performing the famous songs and you'll love discovering the more unfamiliar ones if you don't already know them by heart!

The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Deluxe Songbook features all of the classic songs by E.Y. 'Yip' Harburg and Harold Arlen. Also included are the never-before published 'character themes' by Academy-Award winning composer Herbert Stothart the complete 'Munchkinland Musical Sequence ' and the song 'The Jitterbug ' which was cut from the original film.Utilizing rare M-G-M studio manuscripts and the original motion picture soundtrack each song is presented in its original key. As a bonus this unique collector's item includes two songs from the 1903 Broadway musical production of The Wizard of Oz with lyrics by original Oz author L. Frank Baum.These songshave not been published in over a century. The songbook also contains dozens of original production stills and publicity photos an essay on the story behind the songs and score and biographies of the composers.

The Essential Piano Singles collection is a series of collectible classic songs in a Piano and Vocal format and easy-to-play arrangements. Over The Rainbow from the classic 1939 film TheWizard Of Oz is presented here in this innovative design with downloadable audio tracks performance hints and interesting song background notes. This is the best possible way to play and sing this all-time classictune. All the titles in the Essential Piano Singles series come with instantly-downloadable audio that includes demonstrations at full and half-tempo. You'll be able to gradually build upyour accuracy and speed eventually playing the song perfectly. Not only this but separate audio mixes for the left and right hand will let you focus on one particular part of your playing while the metronome track lets yourehearse at the correct tempo. In a special six-panel gatefold card booklet Over The Rainbow is presented without the need for page-turns. To make this the best guide to learningthis fantastic song some performance hints and tips have been included while the fascinating background notes will give you some information about the song before you start trying to play it. Thisstylish Essential Piano Singles edition of The Wizard Of Oz hit Over The Rainbow makes learning and playing as convenient and easy as possible. With an invaluable downloadcard and some added extras this is all you'll need to learn one of the all-time great songs.

Arranged for piano and guitar with vocals recorded by Judy Garland from the hit from the MGM Motion Picture The Wizard of Oz.