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"Ease on Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, an R&B re-interpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Charlie Smalls–composed tune is the show's version of both "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" from the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.
The "Tornado" instrumental was released as both a 7" single and a 12" extended single, while the show's musical arranger Harold Wheeler co-produced a cover of "Ease on Down the Road" with studio group Consumer Rapport that became a charting single in 1975, peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Wiz is the original motion picture soundtrack album for the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.Although the film was produced for Universal Pictures by Motown Records' film division, the soundtrack album was issued on MCA Records as a two-LP collection (Universal was owned by MCA Inc. at the time).
"Ease On Down The Road," written by Charlie Smalls for the original play, was produced by Jones and sung by Ross and Jackson in the film. The single, which marked one of the first collaborations ...
A new revival of "The Wiz," featuring Wayne Brady and the hits "Ease on Down the Road" and "Home," opens at the Hollywood Pantages before its Broadway run.
However, Null's overall review of the film was critical, and he wrote that, other than the song "Ease on Down the Road", "the rest is an acid trip of bad dancing, garish sets, and a Joel Schumacher-scripted mess that runs 135 agonizing minutes." [58]
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