Tag Archives: Walt Disney

A Dilly Dilly Hit
NEEDLE DROP NOTES
October 21, 2018 posted by James Parten

A Dilly Dilly Hit

The song–based upon an eighteenth-century English tune–was the biggest hit connected with a Disney production since “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” nearly two years previous.

Disney, ABC… and Segregation
Christopher P. Lehman
September 29, 2018 posted by Christopher Lehman

Disney, ABC… and Segregation

In the 1950s Walt Disney agreed to produce the Disneyland television series for ABC – and whenever Disney released a new film, he often arranged for an ABC-Paramount theatre to premiere it.