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"You Can't Win" is an R&B, pop and soul song written by Charlie Smalls and performed by American recording artist Michael Jackson, who played Scarecrow in the 1978 musical film The Wiz, [1] [2] a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz using African-American musical genres and cultural tropes. [3]
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).
It is backed by the second half of the song, which is labeled as "Liberation Ballet – A Brand New Day". The "Liberation Ballet" is primarily instrumental and is composed of uptempo dance music in a variety of styles, with the film's cast and choir cheering and singing "Can you feel the brand new day" throughout the piece.
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The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum 's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) in the context of contemporary African-American culture .
After showing video proof of the musicians working on their songs backstage, Fallon brought them out. The first was a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter named Rachel Rose , originally from Fairfield ...
Bryan Loren Hudson (born May 5, 1966), also nicknamed The Wiz, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.He produced and wrote The Simpsons ' 1990 single "Do the Bartman", and released the 1984 singles "Lollipop Luv" and "Do You Really Love Me?", which peaked at numbers 23 and 64 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart—where the latter remained for 17 weeks.
The songs were originally recorded in 1978, produced by Ross, Suzanne de Passe and Grammy Award winner Lee Holdridge. [2] Motown originally planned to release the album in 1979 (a year after the film's original soundtrack ) [ 4 ] but it was cancelled following low box office returns and highly negative critical response to the film.