![]() ![]() The original Broadway score by Charlie Smalls is here adapted and arranged by genius producer Quincy Jones, and features some new music written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. That said, the talent on display on The Wiz soundtrack is pretty incredible. The soundtrack, meanwhile, was only a minor success though it gained Diana Ross a Grammy nomination (on her duet with Michael Jackson, “Ease On Down The Road”), it only managed to hit #40 on the album charts and certainly isn’t considered a musical soundtrack classic today. Depite being her biggest budget and highest profile movie project to date, 1978’s The Wiz failed to duplicate her earlier successes on both the silver screen and on radio critics just couldn’t accept Diana Ross as the “Dorothy” character in this urban take on The Wizard Of Oz, and the movie ended up losing money. Her first film, Lady Sings The Blues, netted her an Oscar nomination as Best Actress and had produced a #1 soundtrack album, and her second motion picture, Mahogany, was popular with audiences and featured an Oscar-nominated, #1 hit love theme. “There’s nothing here but the fear of will I try? And can I stare it in the eye?”Īs of 1978, Diana Ross’s film career had been brief but hugely successful, and had led her to new heights as a recording artist, as well.
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