Snow White and the German Conundrum
A couple of Berlin-based bands got to record “Snow White” songs – and thereby hangs one of several tales.
Author Archives: James Parten
Snow White goes Spanish
If you were asked to name a country in continental Europe where Snow White might not run its appointed course, you wouldn’t necessarily think of Spain.
Snow White Travels
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” conquered the rest of the world, and the Disney crew had their boots laced and were ready to go! And, where the film went – so did the song score.
Snow White Goes Traveling (Sing Me A Cartoon #25)
If there’s one thing that the Walt Disney concern learned during the 1930’s, it’s that there was oodles of boodle to be made from the “foreign” market.
A New Year’s “Celebrake”-tion
This was the first Popeye cartoon released during the calendar year of 1938, and it’s quite notable for what it has–and for what it doesn’t have.
Sing Me A Cartoon 24: Snow White Meets The Big Bands
In 1937, when Snow White was released, Disney had many more ways its songs could be promoted. It was now the much-revered “Big Band Era”.
Sing Me A Cartoon 23: “Snow White” on Black Shellac
The idea of the “original soundtrack album” had not occurred to anybody until Disney tried it with Snow White – and it proved to be a hit all over the world!
Sing Me A Cartoon #22: Original Mousetracks
You would think that, by 1936, the folks at the Walt Disney studios would have every way figured to promote their product. Toys . . . newspaper comic strips ….
Sing Me A Cartoon #21: Even More Mickey Melodies
By 1936, Walt Disnney’s studios had musicians and lyricists at the ready, willing and able to provide themes and words for any song that might be required for a given…
Sing Me A Cartoon 20: Who Played Cock Robin?
The Disney music department was pinning its hopes on a song in a cartoon that was based on a poem that had first been printed around 1744 – Who Killed Cock Robin?
