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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.
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.
The group is best known for their cover of "Ease on Down the Road", from The Wiz, which was released as a single on Wing and a Prayer/Atlantic Records and hit number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1975. [1] It also hit the Billboard Soul Singles chart, peaking at #19 and the Hot 100, peaking at #42. [2]
It was the re-recording that was released in January 1979 as the second single from The Wiz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, following the release of "Ease On Down the Road" in 1978, and was Michael's first solo chart single on Epic Records (despite the fact that the soundtrack album for The Wiz was released by Motown and the now-defunct ...
Home had been released as part of a 2001 Motown compilation album, [5] while a different version of "Ease on Down the Road" had been released in 1978 as a duet with Michael Jackson. [1] All other tracks remained unreleased until 2015. [5] The reissue was remastered and produced by Andrew Skurow, George Solomon, and Harry Weinger. [2]
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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; G. Goin' Down the Road (song) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song) H. Highway 61 Revisited (song)