Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records
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Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarfs. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and other creative artists who worked with Walt Disney Records
Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney in the mid-1950s, when Disneyland Park, Davy Crockett, and the Mickey Mouse Club were taking the world by storm. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favorites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio.
Authors Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar go behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studios and discover that in the early days Walt Disney and Roy Disney resisted going into the record business before the success of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" ignited the in-house label. Along the way, the book traces the recording adventures of such Disney favorites as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Cinderella, Bambi, Jiminy Cricket, Winnie the Pooh, and even Walt Disney himself. Mouse Tracks reveals the struggles, major successes, and occasional misfires. Included are impressions and details of teen-pop princesses Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills, the Mary Poppins phenomenon, a Disney-style "British invasion," and a low period when sagging sales forced Walt Disney to suggest closing the division down.
Complementing each chapter are brief performer biographies, reproductions of album covers and art, and facsimilies of related promotional material. Mouse Tracks is a collector's bonanza of information on this little-analyzed side of the Disney empire.
About the Author
Tim Hollis lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Three of his previous books-histories of tourism and children's television-are published by University Press of Mississippi.
Greg Ehrbar, a twenty-year Disney company veteran and two-time Grammy nominee, is a writer of advertising, books, television specials, radio shows, compact discs, and Walt Disney Records Read-Alongs.
Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records,Leonard Maltin,Tim Hollis,Greg Ehrbar,University Press of Mississippi,1578068495,Business Aspects,Genres & Styles - Children's,Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Music,Popular music,Sound recording industry,United States
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