If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
#1re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:14amI THINK it's on the concert cd with Jackson Browne singing it...I can dig the cd out and check if you want...
#2re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:22amIt's also on the CD of the MSG cast.
#3re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:25am
I haven't had a full version of my brain for years...
Does this help?
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#4re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:36amis this the same version on Mandy Patinkin's Kidsults album?
#5re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:36amSuzanne Somers sang it in a very limited engagement last year. I was unlucky enough to have caught it.
-Kad
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#6re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 8:32am
I believe you're referring to the opening verse or "intro" to the song?
Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen wrote those "added verses" for all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz for the sheet music releases. They were not written for the film, or ever intended to be part of the film's music. And they were all written after the fact.
They all have them: Over the Rainbow ("when all the world is a hopeless jumble"), The Merry Old Land of Oz ("there's a garden spot, I'm told, where it's never too hot and it's never too cold").
The verses are very good, and they make nice additions to each of the songs... but again, these were like "added bonuses" if you bought the sheet music.
Just an FYI...
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#7re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 8:54amSuzanne Sommers' rendition of it is one of the most memorable moments of last season. To say the least.
BSoBW2
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#9re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 9:19am
Yes, it's on the recording of TWoO I have:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DBWS/sr=1-4/qid=1156339117/ref=sr_1_4/103-1848073-8444659?ie=UTF8&s=music
MSG with Eartha Kitt and Mickey Rooney.
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 09:19 AM
#10re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:28am
bustinloose---Ella Fitzgerald sings the opening verses to Over the Rainbow and Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead (on her Harold Arlen Songbook). Both are stellar renditions, and you can hear the verses on Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B00005N6T2/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/002-4485840-2585641?ie=UTF8#disc_1
Mandy Patinkin does the Over the Rainbow verse as well...
...actually a LOT of people have recorded that song with its added "bonus" verse.
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#11re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:37amMandy sings some of the verses to "If I Only Had a Brain" on "Kidults," but I'm not sure he sings them all.
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#12re: If I Only Had A Brain (The full version)
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:13pmYes the full version includes an "intro" that is only seen during the stage performances at community theaters. Although the intro is not sung by the scarecrow but by two/three flying crows. I was recently in a production of the Wizard of Oz and I played one of these crows.
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