These were inserts that held each cassette, much like the Disney Storytellers on Cassette.
Here is the list of Titles listed inside each booklet at the back.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Take your Disney Songs with you with DISNEY SONGTAPES
In the early 1980s, Disneyland Records released most of their 2500 series on cassettes with 24 page books with lyrics to all of the songs (unless they were instrumentals. From The Best of Disney Volume One to Disney's Merry Christmas Carols, listeners were treated to beautiful full-color Disney illustrations and easy to read lyrics, and like the Disney Storytellers on vinyl or cassette, were designed to help build reading skills. SEE the pictures HEAR the tape READ the book. SING!
These were inserts that held each cassette, much like the Disney Storytellers on Cassette.
Here is the list of Titles listed inside each booklet at the back.
These were inserts that held each cassette, much like the Disney Storytellers on Cassette.Here is the list of Titles listed inside each booklet at the back.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Main Street Electrical Parade Picture Discs
In 1972, Disneyland guests were treated to a brand new concept of entertainment brought to life by thousands of sparkling lights recreating scenes and characters from many Disney film classics. The Main Street Electrical Parade would quickly become the most popular parade in Disney theme parks ever after its 24+ year run at Disneyland Park. It would eventually spin off versions at Walt Disney World magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris. You can see the classic parade now at Disney’s California Adventure.
To accompany the parade, the late Jack Wagner convinced the producers that the musical soundtrack should be all electronic music performed on the Moog Synthesizer and he found the song that would forever be part of Disneyland history, “Baroque Hoedown” by Jean Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley. This tune would interweave several Disney and Patriotic tunes during the pageantry. In 1973, Disney released a picture disc of the Parade’s soundtrack, performed by Jim Christensen and Paul Beaver. The disc featured artwork of the parade on both sides and was sold at Disneyland. For $1.59.
Coincidentally at Walt Disney World, the same music was used for the nightly Electrical Water Pageant, the brainchild of the Electrical Parade which featured sea creatures recreated by lights to lighten the darkened Vacation Kingdom’s Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon. The sea creatures then change magically into a Patriotic Finale featuring American flags and star units. This sold for $1.79 at WDW.
In 1977, the Main Street Electrical Parade was revived and updated from its original 2-dimensional look to a fully three dimensional presentation. The music was updated and performed by Don Dorsey (with the exception of the Cinderella, Dumbo and Small World units). The new version opened with the Electric Fanfare and closed with a disco-fied Disney medley featuring the Oscar-Winning tunes When You Wish Upon A Star and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. That same year the Parade made its East Coast debut at Walt Disney World and both Parks sold a recording of the new soundtrack in picture disc form with artwork of the parade. This sold for $ 1.79.
To accompany the parade, the late Jack Wagner convinced the producers that the musical soundtrack should be all electronic music performed on the Moog Synthesizer and he found the song that would forever be part of Disneyland history, “Baroque Hoedown” by Jean Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley. This tune would interweave several Disney and Patriotic tunes during the pageantry. In 1973, Disney released a picture disc of the Parade’s soundtrack, performed by Jim Christensen and Paul Beaver. The disc featured artwork of the parade on both sides and was sold at Disneyland. For $1.59.
Coincidentally at Walt Disney World, the same music was used for the nightly Electrical Water Pageant, the brainchild of the Electrical Parade which featured sea creatures recreated by lights to lighten the darkened Vacation Kingdom’s Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon. The sea creatures then change magically into a Patriotic Finale featuring American flags and star units. This sold for $1.79 at WDW.
In 1977, the Main Street Electrical Parade was revived and updated from its original 2-dimensional look to a fully three dimensional presentation. The music was updated and performed by Don Dorsey (with the exception of the Cinderella, Dumbo and Small World units). The new version opened with the Electric Fanfare and closed with a disco-fied Disney medley featuring the Oscar-Winning tunes When You Wish Upon A Star and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. That same year the Parade made its East Coast debut at Walt Disney World and both Parks sold a recording of the new soundtrack in picture disc form with artwork of the parade. This sold for $ 1.79.
Friday, March 23, 2007
My Disney Records Collection Part One
My passion for Disney Records started when my mom went to Gemco and bought me Mickey Mouse Disco and Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. It began a long-friendship with Disney. And today, I have a large collection of these Disney classics and I still listen to them for pleasure and for nostalgia. My collection ranges from 1956-1988 and they are Storyteller LPs, Soundtracks and Theme Park Soundtracks.
My all-time favorite, of course is Mickey Mouse Disco. Released in 1979, it went Gold, and surprisingly, it reached Platinum and Double Platinum. I still enjoy this classic album along with other Disco classics like the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. This album has disco versions of three Disney standards including the Oscar-Winning tunes, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins as well as new tracks such as Macho Duck, a parody of The Village People's Macho Man, Mousetrap, and many others. It's a true classic and you can still get this on Ebay or Itunes.
The Storyteller albums are a crowning jewel in my collection and with great reasons. They come included books with beautiful art or photographs from the movies. I enjoy collecting the albums released in the late 50s due to the fact that many pf the albums featured the art from animated cels and are valuable. In addition, the narration of these albums are done to perfection by actors like Thurl Ravenscroft, Ginny Tyler, Dallas McKennon, Mouseketeers Annette, Darlene Gillespie and Jimmie Dodd, and even Jiminy Cricket.
Disney released Picture Disc titles in 1980 but the Disney parks produced a few soundtracks for the Main Street Electrical Parade (1973 and 1977), America On Parade, It's A Small World and others. The 80s discs included soundtracks from Snow White, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Mary Poppins and others, totaling 12 discs, all beautifully illustrated by the folks at Disney.
Disneyland Records was official started in 1956 and headed by Jimmy Johnson after he convinced Walt Disney to produce his own records after the success of Disneyland Park and the TV series Davy Crockett and the Mickey Mouse Club. Before the Disneyland label, many recordings were issued on Columbia, RCA, Capitol and others. The soundtrack albums released from its inception to 1959 are very valuable due to the rare artwork (possibly from animation cels) and the cream of the crop is the original release of the studio version of the score of Alice In Wonderland, featuring Darlene Gillespie and Tutti Camarata. That album alone was worth over $350 because of its one time use of artwork!
A second label, Buena Vista Records was started in 1959 and mostly catered to the teens and adult audiences. It's big success was the soundtrack album from "Mary Poppins" in 1964. In the 1980s, the label released a series for George Lucas' Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies as well as Rainbow Brite, the Star Trek Movies, The Dark Crystal and others.
I must have over 100+ Disneyland/Buena Vista albums to my name and these are my pride and joy. Not only do these records entertain me but have influenced me to see the movies they are based on. Many of these classic albums are available on CD at Disneyland's 20th Century Music Store (at least the last time I heard) and now on Itunes and Amazon.
I highly recommend that you read MOUSE TRACKS-THE STORY OF WALT DISNEY RECORDS by Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar. This book will tell you all about the Disney albums and the people who worked on them.
Official Website:
http://www.mousetracksonline.com/
My all-time favorite, of course is Mickey Mouse Disco. Released in 1979, it went Gold, and surprisingly, it reached Platinum and Double Platinum. I still enjoy this classic album along with other Disco classics like the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. This album has disco versions of three Disney standards including the Oscar-Winning tunes, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins as well as new tracks such as Macho Duck, a parody of The Village People's Macho Man, Mousetrap, and many others. It's a true classic and you can still get this on Ebay or Itunes.
The Storyteller albums are a crowning jewel in my collection and with great reasons. They come included books with beautiful art or photographs from the movies. I enjoy collecting the albums released in the late 50s due to the fact that many pf the albums featured the art from animated cels and are valuable. In addition, the narration of these albums are done to perfection by actors like Thurl Ravenscroft, Ginny Tyler, Dallas McKennon, Mouseketeers Annette, Darlene Gillespie and Jimmie Dodd, and even Jiminy Cricket.
Disney released Picture Disc titles in 1980 but the Disney parks produced a few soundtracks for the Main Street Electrical Parade (1973 and 1977), America On Parade, It's A Small World and others. The 80s discs included soundtracks from Snow White, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Mary Poppins and others, totaling 12 discs, all beautifully illustrated by the folks at Disney.
Disneyland Records was official started in 1956 and headed by Jimmy Johnson after he convinced Walt Disney to produce his own records after the success of Disneyland Park and the TV series Davy Crockett and the Mickey Mouse Club. Before the Disneyland label, many recordings were issued on Columbia, RCA, Capitol and others. The soundtrack albums released from its inception to 1959 are very valuable due to the rare artwork (possibly from animation cels) and the cream of the crop is the original release of the studio version of the score of Alice In Wonderland, featuring Darlene Gillespie and Tutti Camarata. That album alone was worth over $350 because of its one time use of artwork!
A second label, Buena Vista Records was started in 1959 and mostly catered to the teens and adult audiences. It's big success was the soundtrack album from "Mary Poppins" in 1964. In the 1980s, the label released a series for George Lucas' Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies as well as Rainbow Brite, the Star Trek Movies, The Dark Crystal and others.
I must have over 100+ Disneyland/Buena Vista albums to my name and these are my pride and joy. Not only do these records entertain me but have influenced me to see the movies they are based on. Many of these classic albums are available on CD at Disneyland's 20th Century Music Store (at least the last time I heard) and now on Itunes and Amazon.
I highly recommend that you read MOUSE TRACKS-THE STORY OF WALT DISNEY RECORDS by Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar. This book will tell you all about the Disney albums and the people who worked on them.
Official Website:
http://www.mousetracksonline.com/
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