Originally the movie was to contain a musical number called "The Jitterbug" which was a swing-style song, then Garland's most famous music genre. The story behind the song was to have been that the Wicked Witch sends a jitterbug to the quartet while they're walking through the forest towards her castle in order to exhaust them and make them easier prey for the flying monkeys. (A remnant of this is still in the finished film when the Witch says there will be "a little insect to take the fight out of them.") The number was removed from the film after some early preview screenings, but sheet music of the song was still sold.
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