Walking in a Disney Wonderland
A 70th birthday salute to Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and the soundtrack album released almost 50 years after it premiered.
A 70th birthday salute to Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and the soundtrack album released almost 50 years after it premiered.
From the score of Dumbo, Disney decided to concentrate on popularizing two of the songs: the lullaby “Baby Mine” and the rhythmic novelty “When I See An Elephant Fly”.
In a special Animation Spin, artist/historian Russell Schroeder takes us on a journey through music that, for one reason or another, was not used for various projects.
People who bought the Decca set certainly got value for money–even if the RCA Victor surfaces wore better under the needle than Decca’s.
The 1973 two-record set that helped celebrate “50 Happy Years” of The Walt Disney Company also turned to be a tribute to Disney’s in-house record company.
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.
Once Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married – in song – it was inevitable that they should become parents… at least on records.