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Ease On Down The Road (ver. 1) by Charlie Smalls - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"Ease On Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, although it is best known in its 1978 release as a duet between soul singers and Motown alums Diana Ross & Michael Jackson. The song was a #1 disco hit for five (non-consecutive) weeks by the disco studio group, Consumer Rapport. The Consumer Rapport version hit the Hot Soul Singles chart, peaking at #19 and the Hot 100 peaking at #42. . The 1978 duet was released as the theme song of the 1978 film adaptation of The Wiz (itself an adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), and produced by Quincy Jones. The Charlie Smalls–composed tune was an R&B re-interpretation of both "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" from the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. In the song, Dorothy (portrayed in the film by Ross) and the Scarecrow (played by Jackson) dance their way down the Yellow Brick Road, and.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Charlie Smalls (October 25, 1943 – August 27, 1987) was an American composer and songwriter, best known for writing the music for the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz. An adult prodigy, Smalls attended Juilliard at age eleven. After Graduating from the High School of Performing Arts, Smalls toured as a member of the New York Jazz Repertory Company before beginning work on The Wiz. An African-American retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wiz was adapted into a feature film, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures in 1978. Smalls won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Score for his work on The Wiz. He died at age forty-three in Belgium, during emergency surgery to repair a burst appendix. "Ease On Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, although it is best known in its 1978 release as a duet between soul singers and Motown alums Diana Ross & Michael Jackson. The song was a #1 disco hit for five (non-consecutive) weeks by the disco studio group, Consumer Rapport. The Consumer Rapport version hit the Hot Soul Singles chart, peaking at #19 and the Hot 100.
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