Ease On Down the Road was a 1978 duet between soul singers and former Motown alums Diana Ross & Michael Jackson. Jump to: navigation, search 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Motown Record Company, L.P., also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label specializing in the musical genres of R&B, pop, soul music, and hip-hop music. ... Diana Ross on the cover of her collection Diana Ross: The Ultimate Collection Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross [1] on March 26, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American soul, R&B and pop singer and actress. ... Jump to: navigation, search Michael Jackson in 1992. ...

Released as the theme song of the 1978 film adaptation of The Wiz (itself an adaptaiton of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), and produced by Quincy Jones, the Charlie Smalls-composed tune was an R&B re-interpretation of both "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" from the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. In the song, Dorothy (portrayed in the film by Ross) and the Scarecrow (played by Jackson) dance their way down the Yellow Brick Road, and give each other words of encouragement. Jump to: navigation, search The Wiz is both a 1975 Broadway musical and a 1978 film urbanized adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, featuring an all-African-American/Latino cast. ... // Summary Spoiler warning: Dorothy Gale is a little girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, and her little dog Toto. ... Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones II (born March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois) is an United States record, television and film producer, musician, arranger and songwriter. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ironically, on February 12, 1939, Victor Fleming again replaced George Cukor in directing Gone with the Wind. ...

"Ease on Down the Road" is performed four times in The Wiz: once by Dorothy and the Scarecrow, once by the two of them and the Tin Man (played by Nipsey Russell), by the three of them and the Cowardly Lion (played by Ted Ross), and finally during the end credits. In the album version, Jackson & Ross sing by themselves. The recording was one of Jackson's first collaborations with Quincy Jones, who became his main producer during the late 1970s and 1980s. Nipsey Russell Nipsey Russell (born October 13, 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia, died October 2, 2005 in New York, New York from stomach cancer at age 80), was an African American comedian, most known for being a guest panelist on many 1970s game shows, such as Match Game and To Tell... Jump to: navigation, search The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

Released as a single in the late summer of 1978, the song missed the U.S. Top 40 by one position, peaking at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #17 on the Soul Singles chart the same year. Jump to: navigation, search 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the main U.S. singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ...