A film soundtrack 17 years laterSourced
The Wizard of Oz opened in 1939. Its original film soundtrack arrived in 1956.
The soundtrack using recordings from the film came out in 1956, around the movie's television premiere. Other studio recordings of its songs had been sold in 1939, so the music was not absent for 17 years; the actual film recordings were the late arrival.
The familiar songs had more than one recorded life.
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