Best song in The Wizard of Oz

The correct answer is of course the Lollipop Guild (Munchkin Land Song).

It's really obvious that the vocals are sped up for most of the munchkins. You hear a similar effect in "Snow White".

What really bothers me is that when The Horse of a Different Color changes color, the camera-switches are accomplished via editing. They should have done it seamlessly so that it holds up perfectly to an audience seven decades later. :eyes:

Yeah, well. It's too bad that they couldn't find Munchins who actually talked like that, but they were going for something special and unprecedented, you know? Sure it's obvious to a modern ear (and by "modern" I mean any post-1945 ear). And the masks in Planet of the Apes are simple latex appliances that you can get off the shelf at a modern costume shop. So what?

That's how it goes. You can't watch a film from that long ago without finding certain techniques hopelessly dated. Hell, even such recent offerings as The Matrix are preposterously dated because of "bullet time" and all that late 90's John Woo gun-fetishism crap.

It's really obvious that the vocals are sped up for most of the munchkins. You hear a similar effect in "Snow White".

Follow the yellow brick rrroad! Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road!

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Because it's the signature song, the song that people love to this day more than the others, I'd say. A girlfriend in college used to play the Papa John Creach version over and over and just sit and stare into space...On hindsight I'm glad we never hooked up. It's a little too syrupy for my tastes. The Lollipop Guild song reminds me of Rush :D

Somewhere Over The Rainbow but I voted for Munchkin Land Song! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8

Which I like even better.

I never have been able to sync up Pink Floyd with the Wizard of Oz. Is it just an Urban Legend that the two go together?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow">Dark Side of the Rainbow

But the "off to see the Wizard" song is an ear-worm for me no matter HOW many years ago I watched the movie.

The Jitterbug.

http://www.lyricstime.com/wizard-of-oz-the-jitterbug-lyrics.html

(That's the official title, BTW, not "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"). The song was selected as the top song of the 20th century in a poll by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA), part of their "Songs of the Century" project:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/07/365.songs/index.html

The correct answer is Strange Fruit, and phooey on those industry bigwigs!
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