Soundtrack of the film " The Wiz" - Diana Ross, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson

Описание: The film director of the movie " The Wiz " was Sydney Lumet .

" Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz " , is an album by Diana Ross, released by Motown Records/Universal on November 27, 2015.
The album features Ross' versions of songs from the film version of the musical The Wiz, in which she starred along with Michael Jackson.
The songs were originally recorded in 1978, produced by Ross, Suzanne de Passe and Grammy Award winner Lee Holdridge.
Motown originally planned to release the album in 1979 (a year after the film's original soundtrack) but it was cancelled .
Ross recorded new versions of "Be a Lion" and "Home" for the album, together with a previously unreleased song, "Wonder, Wonder Why".
" Home " had been released as part of a 2001 Motown compilation album, while a different version of "Ease on Down the Road" had been released in 1978 as a duet with Michael Jackson.
All other tracks remained unreleased until 2015.
The reissue was remastered and produced by Andrew Skurow, George Solomon, and Harry Weinger.

Track listing
All songs written by Charlie Smalls, unless otherwise noted.
"The Feeling We Once Had"
"He's the Wizard"
"Soon as I Get Home"
Trio Medley: "You Can't Win" / "Slide Some Oil" / "(I'm A) Mean Ole Lion"
"Ease on Down the Road"
"Be a Lion"
"So You Wanted to Meet the Wizard"
"Is This What Feeling Gets? (Dorothy's Theme)" (Quincy Jones, Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
"Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News"
"Wonder Wonder Why"
"A Brand New Day" (Luther Vandross)
"Believe in Yourself"
"Home"
The film version of " A Brand New Day " was released as a single in some continental European countries and, in 1979, peaked at #1 in Belgium and The Netherlands ( credited to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson )

"A Brand New Day", also known as "Everybody Rejoice", is a song from the 1974 Broadway musical The Wiz written by Luther Vandross .
It was later featured in the 1978 film version, sung by cast members Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, and Ted Ross (credited as The Wiz Stars). Given the all-Black cast of The Wiz, the song's many references to freedom and new possibilities (especially as sung by African American characters who had just been freed from enslavement) certainly invoked the struggles and history of Blacks in America. In the onscreen version of the song, Nipsey Russell can even be heard exclaiming "Free at last!"—a reference to civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (His impromptu addition to the song is not heard on the soundtrack album version, instead replaced by sung vocals by Diana Ross.) The song's opening line is sung by Luther Vandross, the song's composer (Vandross' line was to represent one of the Winkies singing and dancing on a table while throwing up an item in the film).