" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

Men at Work performed three songs for the 1985 Oz for Africa concert ( part of the global Live Aid program )-" Maria ", " Overkill ", and an unreleased song called " The Longest Night ".

In 1960, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake performed the first modern SETI experiment, named " Project Ozma ", after the Queen of Oz in L. Frank Baum's fantasy books.

* ' Over the Rainbow ' contestant Jenny Douglas performed her version of ' Send in the Clowns ' during the 2010 talent contest to find a leading lady for the Wizard of Oz, in musical theatre week.

A hallmark of these sketches was the improvisation between Jim Henson, who performed the Chef's head and voice, and Frank Oz, who was his hands.

Oz has performed as a Muppeteer in over 75 movies including Labyrinth, video releases, and television specials, as well as countless other public appearances, episodes of Sesame Street, and other Jim Henson series.

" The act featured a small ball of fur growing into the Rock and Roll Monster ( performed by Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz ) with three heads and six arms lip-syncing to the song " Rock It to Me " by The Bruthers.

Kermit ( performed by Jim Henson ) teaches Grump ( performed by Frank Oz and voiced by Jerry Juhl ) about the Art of Visual Thinking.

A blue version of Splurge ( performed by Frank Oz ) appears as the mother.

Mert from the La Choy commercials and Fred from the Kern's Bakery commercials appear as Amanda's friends where they were performed by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl ( who also voices the narrator ) while Frank Oz does the puppeteering.

* Santa Claus Routine with Arthur Godfrey ( December 24, 1967 ) – Arthur Godfrey plays Santa Claus and gets a visit from a group of monsters consisting of Thudge ( performed by Jim Henson ), Gleep ( a protoype of Grover performed by Frank Oz ), Scudge ( performed by Jerry Juhl ), Snerk, and Snork ( performed by Frank Oz ).

Dasher and Donner were performed by Jim Henson, Prancer was performed by Frank Oz, Blitzen was performed by Jerry Juhl, and Dancer was performed by Bob Payne.

His voice over acting talents can be heard on animated shows like Ren and Stimpy, Scooby Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Little Wizard Adventures, The Oz Kids and Disney's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

* Journey Back to Oz ( 1974 ) ( voice )

Frank Oz ( born Frank Richard Oznowicz ; born May 25, 1944 ) is a film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, as well as Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street.

* 2000: Lion of Oz ( voice ) .... Wimzik

Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz, who provided the character's voice regularly from his earliest appearances until 2001.

The upcoming animated film Dorothy of Oz stars Lea Michele as the voice of Dorothy Gale, who travels back to Oz to face more adventures and adversity with her friends.

West has stated that the voice for Farnsworth is meant to be a bit shaky and that when developing the voice he came up with " a combination of all the wizard-type characters you heard when you were a kid, Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz.

* Lion of Oz ( 2000 ) ( voice )

* Journey Back to Oz ( 1974 ) — voice recorded in 1962

He will next appear in the romantic comedy The Oranges alongside Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester, the action film Chinese Zodiac, and as the voice of Wiser the Owl in the animated film Dorothy of Oz.

* Christmas in Oz ( 1996 )-Bela ( voice )

Viktor Sukhorukov provided the voice of Jack Pumpkinhead in the 2000 Russian adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, Adventures in the Emerald City: Princess Ozma.

He is best known for his roles on television as Dr. Emil Skoda in NBC's Law & Order ( and other shows in the Law & Order franchise ), Assistant Police Chief Will Pope in TNT's The Closer, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger in the HBO prison drama Oz, on film as J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and the upcoming animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, Mac MacGuff in Juno, as the voice of Cave Johnson in Portal 2 and being the most recognizable ' that guy ' actor.

Butler's voice characterization is reminiscent of the more soft-spoken aspect of Bert Lahr's broad-ranging characterizations, specifically the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz.

The only other work Caselotti did following her premiere was an uncredited role in The Wizard of Oz, as the voice of Juliet during the Tin-Man's song, " If I Only Had a Heart ", singing the falsetto line " Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo ".

* Virtual Oz ( 1996 ) ( V ) ( voice )

* The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )-Mayor / Lollipop Guild ( voice ) ( uncredited )

* 1982: The Wizard of Oz ( voice )

An interpretation was featured in the very first episode of The Muppet Show, with Miss Piggy, four chickens, four frogs, and two males pigs being led by Kermit the Frog in the Muppet Glee Club, Miss Piggy sang a solo in the third verse until the end, her voice being performed by Richard Hunt instead of Frank Oz, her then-regular performer.

* Virtual Oz ( 1996 ) ( V ) ( voice )-Otto

* Jericho was the name of a sock puppet used by Cyril O ' reilly in the HBO series Oz.

Oz is also well known for his work with the puppet of Yoda in the popular Star Wars movie series and as a director of movies such as the musical Little Shop of Horrors, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and The Indian in the Cupboard.

In Return to Oz ( 1985 ), she is a puppet performed by Mak Wilson and voiced by Denise Bryer.

1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.

He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

Prolog gave rise to the programming languages ALF, Fril, Gödel, Mercury, Oz, Ciao, Visual Prolog, XSB, and λProlog, as well as a variety of concurrent logic programming languages ( see Shapiro ( 1989 ) for a survey ), constraint logic programming languages and datalog.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

This stage version, the first to use the shortened title " The Wizard of Oz ", opened in Chicago in 1902, then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903.

He also worked for years on a musical version of Ozma of Oz, which eventually became The Tik-Tok Man Of Oz.

Baum would work primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times ( all before he moved to California ) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.

In 1905, Baum declared plans for an Oz amusement park.

Trouble is, not only is there no evidence that he purchased such an island, no one has ever been able to find any island whose name even resembles Pedloe in that area .< nowiki ></ nowiki > Nevertheless, Baum stated to the press that he had discovered a Pedloe Island off the coast of California and that he had purchased it to be " the Marvelous Land of Oz ," intending it to be " a fairy paradise for children.

He did not get back to a stable financial situation for several years, after he sold the royalty rights to many of his earlier works, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Prior to that, his last produced play was The Tik-Tok Man of Oz ( based on Ozma of Oz and the basis for Tik-Tok of Oz ), a modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

This was fine for pre-1953 films such as The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca.

Vinton's team also created the Nomes and the Nome King for Disney's " Return to Oz " feature, for which they received an Academy Award Nomination for Special Visual Effects.

* May 8 – CBS telecasts The Wizard of Oz for the last time.

* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network.