Their talents and a rich orchestral score from Herbert Stothart helped make The Wizard of Oz one of the most widely seen, best-known and best-loved motion pictures in history. But it wouldn't have worked without the songs, which came from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, a couple of guys with a piano, imagination and energy. The Wizard of Oz is, of course, a great movie.
Bert Lahr (far right), Ray Bolger (back row, right), Judy Garland (sitting, right), composer Harold Arlen (sitting left), and various MGM and music publishing executives sing songs from the 1939 film musical 'The Wizard of Oz' around a microphone in the NBC radio studio, circa 1939.
