{"id":25221,"date":"2014-08-02T05:33:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25221"},"modified":"2021-03-22T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:45:43","slug":"saved-from-the-cutting-room-floor-if-i-only-had-a-heartfew-know-that-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25221","title":{"rendered":"Saved From The Cutting Room Floor&#8230;&#8221;If I Only Had A Heart&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saved From The Cutting Room Floor&#8230;&#8221;If I Only Had A Heart&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Few know that Buddy Ebsen was the original TIn Man in &#8216;The Wizard Of Oz&#8217;. Actually he was cast as The Scarecrow, but with the directors permission, he and Ray Bolger swapped roles. Only a few photos and a this super rare recording of him in that role exist.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ebsen   If I Only\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDcgsRaGDao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This photo shows him in full makeup and that&#8217;s what almost killed him&#8230;the makeup, which was mostly an aluminum powder. After a few weeks of inhaling the powder, he had a violent reaction and was rushed to the hospital where he stayed for nearly a month. He was replaced by Jack Haley and the aluminum powder was changed to an aluminum paste.<\/p>\n<p>As I understand it, &#8220;If I Only Had A Heart&#8221;, The TIn Man&#8217;s only solo was recorded by Ebsen the day before his collapse on the set. I have heard that Ebsen&#8217;s voice is intact on at least one of the many reprises of &#8220;We&#8217;re Off To See The Wizard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/710644332306452\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Saved-From-The-Cutting-Room-Floor...If-I-Only-Had-A-Heart-Few-know-that-Buddy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/710650675639151\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saved From The Cutting Room Floor&#8230;&#8221;If I Only Had A Heart&#8221; Few know that Buddy Ebsen was the original TIn Man in &#8216;The Wizard Of Oz&#8217;. Actually he was cast as The Scarecrow, but with the directors permission, he and Ray Bolger swapped roles. Only a few photos and a this super rare recording of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59934,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25221\/revisions\/59934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}