Yip Harburg Harold Arlen: Over the Rainbow: Piano Vocal Guitar: Single Sheet

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.

Over the Rainbow is a standard that has become forever associated with its most famous interpreter Judy Garland. Her troubled adult years only added poignancy to her guileless interpretation of the song preserved on celluloid in The Wizard of Oz when she was seventeen. The song would also do something similar for Eva Cassidy whose 1992 version brought her posthumous fame almost a decade later.Arranged beautifully by Christopher Hussey for SSA choir with Piano accompaniment this anthem of hope has not lost its bitter-sweet yearning.

Over the Rainbow is a standard that has become forever associated with its most famous interpreter Judy Garland. Her troubled adult years only added poignancy to her guileless interpretation of the song preserved on celluloid in The Wizard of Oz when she was seventeen. The song would also do something similar for Eva Cassidy whose 1992 version brought her posthumous fame almost a decade later.Arranged beautifully by Christopher Hussey for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment this anthem of hope has not lost its bitter-sweet yearning.

From the musical The Wizard of Oz Music by Harold Arlen Lyric by E. Y. Harburg Arranged by Mark Hayes