Ease on Down the Road

"Ease on Down the Road"
Single by Diana Ross & Michael Jackson
from the album The Wiz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
B-side	"Poppy Girls" (instrumental by Quincy Jones)
Released	September 21, 1978
Recorded	1977
Genre	R&B soul disco
Length	3:19 (single version) 3:54 (soundtrack version) 6:06 (disco version)
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Charlie Smalls
Producer(s)	Quincy Jones Tom Bahler
Michael Jackson singles chronology
"Just a Little Bit of You" (1975) "Ease on Down the Road" (1978) "You Can't Win" (1979)
Diana Ross singles chronology
"Lovin' Livin' and Givin'" (1978) "Ease on Down the Road" (1978) "Pops We Love You" (1978)

"Ease on Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, an R&B re-interpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Charlie Smalls–composed tune is the show's version 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, performed three times during the show, Dorothy and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion dance their way down the Yellow Brick Road and give each other words of encouragement.^[1]

Two versions of the song have been released as charting singles: one associated with the Broadway show by studio group Consumer Rapport in 1975, and a second recorded by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson for the feature-film adaptation of The Wiz (1978).