Chelle Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 Hi ? I am new here (obviously) so please forgive me if this has already been discussed. I searched but was unable to find anything. My friends and I play a little game where we pick a topic and then make a mix CD with songs about the topic. I am usually pretty good at this game but this one has me stumped. The topic is the Wizard of Oz. I need to find songs that have some lyrical reference to the movie, characters, soundtrack etc. I know the obvious is just to make my CD be Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd but I think that is cheating in our game a bit. So all I can come up with is What You Wish For by Guster Come Downstairs and Say Hello by Guster Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John I know there has to be references all over the place but I just can't remember any others. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 Tin Man by America Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead by The Fifth Estate (1967) Would it be cheating to use this soundtrack from the movie adaptation of the Broadway show "The Wiz" (1978), an urbanized update of the Wizard of Oz story, with Diana Ross as Dorothy and Wacko Jacko as The Scarecrow. Anybody remember the song Ease On Down The Road ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_jr_ Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 Would it be cheating to use "Over the Rainbow"? Would it be cheating to ask total strangers for help? Just kidding, Chelle. This is interesting. I'm going to do some research... Oh, and welcome to Songfacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle Posted September 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 In reference to the cheating... The purpose of our game is to make mix CD's of songs we like and trade, therefore exposing each other to songs or artists we may not discover otherwise. So I think using a single album defeats the purpose of the game but getting help from others is ok. I have a few friends who usually help but we are all kind of stumped. We did decide that if we can find it, a song from the Wiz is allowed. (of course none of us own it so we I am on the lookout for that) Thanks for all the help so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 I wouldn't really say DSoTM has any references to The Wizard of Oz, it just synches up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_jr_ Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Hey Chris...what's the instrument playing at the beginning of "It Can Happen"? Is that a sitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkfan413 Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 does a munchkin really hang himself in the movie? i've heard lots of people saying that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyRider Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Tin Man.......is a wonderful song by...AMERICA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Check out Magdalene Lane by Don McLean. It's sinfully good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielj Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Just burn Dark Side Of The Moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 does a munchkin really hang himself in the movie? i've heard lots of people saying that No. Interesting, the story I heard was it was the director. Anyway, it's an emu or something swaying its head and people thought it looked like someone's body swinging. Hey Chris...what's the instrument playing at the beginning of "It Can Happen"? Is that a sitar? Sounds like a sitar to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Clown Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 the British indie band Hefner recorded a great song called The Day That Thatcher Dies (about you know who, as if you couldn't guess) and the chorus is 'ding-dong the witch is dead'. DSOTM - I thought I knew that album inside out but had no idea there was a Wizard of Oz connection - what have I been missing? Incidentally - there is a dub reggae version of DSOTM called 'Dub Side Of The Moon' which, if you are looking for DSOTM connections that are not just obvious Floyd burns, may give you something a little bit more left-field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Something I don´t understand. What has to do Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of Oz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Something I don´t understand. What has to do Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of Oz? When the original vinyl· release of Darkside of the Moon is played in synchronization with the movie Wizard of Oz, at the 3rd Lion?s roar, the music will go hand in hand with the sequences of the film. It then repeats around approximately 2 ¾ times. · - The vinyl works better than the CD, unless it?s burned to skip the blank part in between tracks. I tried to do this with a DVD & my .WAV files on my computer; it caused a 5 second delay in the movie. Also see this thread for answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Wow, it´s amazing... I never heard this before... Sounds like "Paul is dead" and all that backwards stuff... anyway, thanks for the explanation, I´ll try and check as soon as I find my Wizard of Oz DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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