The Wiz Movie Clip - "Can You Feel A Brand New Day" (also known as "Everybody Rejoice") video, lyrics, & information)

Movieclips, June 27, 2011

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases the song "A Brand New Day" (also known as "Can Everybody Rejoice" from the movie version of the 1978 movie The Wiz. 

Information about The Wiz, lyrics for "Everybody Rejoice", and a few comments from the discussion threads of the showcased videos are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

 All copyrights remain with their owners.

 Thanks to Luther Vandross, the composer of the song "A Brand New Day". Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. 

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE "WIZ"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(film)
"The Wiz is a 1978 American musical adventure film produced in collaboration between Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urban reimagining of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was loosely adapted from the 1974 Broadway musical of the same name. The film follows the adventures of Dorothy, a shy twenty-four-year-old Harlem, New York, schoolteacher who finds herself magically transported to the Land of Oz, which resembles an alternative fantasy version of the Big Apple. Befriended by a Scarecrow, a Tin Man, and a Cowardly Lion, she travels through the city to seek an audience with the mysterious Wiz, who they say is the only one powerful enough to send her home."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONG "A BRAND NEW DAY" 
From https://genius.com/Diana-ross-a-brand-new-day-lyrics
written by tianna11025, 2017
" "A Brand New Day", also known as “Everybody Rejoice”, is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz written by American R&B singer and songwriter Luther Vandross. (In 1976 Vandross recorded a version of the song for his album Luther, on Cotillion Records.) In the play, the song is sung to celebrate because Dorothy has killed Evilene, the tyrannical Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow sing the song with the newly freed Winkies, who were ruled and enslaved by Evilene. It was later featured in the 1978 film version, sung by cast members Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, and Ted Ross (credited as The Wiz Stars).

Given the all-Black cast of The Wiz, the song’s many references to freedom and new possibilities (especially as sung by African American characters who had just been freed from enslavement) certainly invoked the struggles and history of Blacks in America. In the onscreen version of the song, Nipsey Russell can even be heard exclaiming “Free at last!"—a reference to civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (His impromptu addition to the song is not heard on the soundtrack album version, instead replaced by sung vocals by Diana Ross.)"
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I reformatted this summary to enhance its readability. 

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LYRICS: A BRAND NEW DAY

from the album: The Wiz (Original Soundtrack)

(composed by Luther Vandross) 

[Verse 1]

Everybody look around

'Cause there's a reason to rejoice you see

Everybody come out

And let's commence to singing joyfully

 

[Diana Ross]

Everybody look up

And feel the hope that we've been waiting on

 

[All]

Everybody's glad

Because our silent fear and dread is gone

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully

Just look about, you owe it to yourself to check it out

 

[Chorus - 2x]

Can't you feel a brand new day?

Can't you feel a brand new day?

 

[Verse 2: Ted Ross]

Everybody be glad

Because the sun is shining just for us

 

[Diana Ross]

Everybody wake up

Into the morning, into happiness

 

[Michael Jackson]

Hello world

It's like a different way of livin' now

 

[Nipsey Russell]

And thank you world

 

[Diana Ross]

We always knew that we'd be free somehow

 

[Pre-Chorus 2]

In harmony, and show the world that we've got liberty

It's such a change, for us to live so independently

Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully

Just look about, you owe it to yourself to check it out

 

[Chorus]

Can't you feel a brand new day?

Can't you feel a brand new day?

 

[Verse 2: Diana Ross (All)]

Everybody be glad (be glad)

Because the sun is shining just for us (yes it is)

Everybody wake up (wake up)

Into the morning, into happiness (that's right)

Hello world, it's like a different way of living now

 

[Nipsey Russell]

Thank you world

 

[Diana Ross]

We always knew that we'd be free somehow

 

[Pre-Chorus 2]

In harmony, and show the world that we've got liberty

It's such a change, for us to live so independently

Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully

Just look about, you owe it to yourself to check it out

You owe it to yourself to check it out

 

[Chorus - 2x]

Can't you feel a brand new day?

Can't you feel a brand new day?

 

Source: https://genius.com/Diana-ross-a-brand-new-day-lyrics

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy8dUJEOqos&ab_channel=Movieclips

Cherez Robinson, Jan 19, 2021
"The theme song for Jan 20, 2021."

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ITSCS117, Jan. 19, 2021
"Tomorrow I'm gonna play this loud in my house after inauguration"

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