The great Diana Ross sings this song (penned by Luther Vandross) as part of her contribution to the 1978 film "The Wiz" starring Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and others whose names escape me right now and I'm too lazy to look up! :)
The movie, The Wiz, was one of several versions around about the Wizard of Oz. It was the black version and posed a much different take, if memory serves me correct, as pretty much all of them do. There was one a couple of years back on the sci-fi channel. I tried watching it but couldn't. It was way too weird. :)
Anyway. Back to today's song.
I really like this song, the lyrics for sure. The tune is pretty good too! Very upbeat! But I really like the message of the song. Take out the whole OZ thing and there is some deep truth in the song about freedom and beginning again. "Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully. Just look about. You owe it to yourself to check it out. Can’t you feel a brand new day?"
So many of the songs I'm finding about brand new days lean much more toward the figurative than the literal and that's great because each day we wake up is a day to live a brand new day. And as many days as we rise up out of our beds and live life we have opportunity. As the song says, "You owe it to yourself to check it out." So check out this brand new day!
Brand New Day
The movie, The Wiz, was one of several versions around about the Wizard of Oz. It was the black version and posed a much different take, if memory serves me correct, as pretty much all of them do. There was one a couple of years back on the sci-fi channel. I tried watching it but couldn't. It was way too weird. :)
Anyway. Back to today's song.
I really like this song, the lyrics for sure. The tune is pretty good too! Very upbeat! But I really like the message of the song. Take out the whole OZ thing and there is some deep truth in the song about freedom and beginning again. "Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully. Just look about. You owe it to yourself to check it out. Can’t you feel a brand new day?"
So many of the songs I'm finding about brand new days lean much more toward the figurative than the literal and that's great because each day we wake up is a day to live a brand new day. And as many days as we rise up out of our beds and live life we have opportunity. As the song says, "You owe it to yourself to check it out." So check out this brand new day!
Brand New Day
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