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Long before synergy became a corporate watchword, Walt Disney parlayed his animated films into successful comic strips, toys, and phonograph records. Initially, the studio licensed music from the films to other companies, but after the TV show Disneyland spawned a hit in 1955 with The Ballad of Davy Crockett, the company launched an in-house record outfit headed by noted big-band arranger Tutti Camarata. Besides soundtracks, read-along Storyteller LPs, and other children's releases, Disney lured Mary Martin and other adult-oriented singers and scored hits with such early '60s teen stars as Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills. Disney's labels cashed in on '70s fads with the double platinum Mickey Mouse Disco LP and the Mousercise workout album, rode into the CD era successfully, and now offer songs for download on iTunes. Hollis and Ehrbar obviously know and love Disney's music; what's more important is their thorough research. Besides detailed accounts of the diverse Disney releases, they provide sidebar biographies of dozens of performers. Though it lacks a discography, this is a valuable, highly readable addition to Disneyana.--Gordon Flagg Booklist An outstandingly well researched, exceptionally well organized, and very capably written history . . . The best Disney-related publication in recent memory.--Rhett Wickham laughingplace.com Fills in a missing piece of the Disney legacy . . . and if you're a fan of Disneyana, this is a must-have.--Jerry Beck cartoonbrew.com

An amazing and enjoyable read, full of people I know and remember well and yet more whom I wish I'd known. It also brings back a terrific lot of memories of so much wonderful music! How soon, sadly, we forget the amazing talents that contributed to the legacy of Disney music throughout the years. I absolutely appreciate the enormous amount of research--and sweat and love--that went into this book's making, and I congratulate Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar for it. I was glad to be a very small part of it!--Roy Edward Disney An outstandingly well researched, exceptionally well organized, and very capably written history . . . The best Disney-related publication in recent memory.-- laughingplace.com Fills in a missing piece of the Disney legacy . . . and if you're a fan of Disneyana, this is a must-have.-- cartoonbrew.com Long before synergy became a corporate watchword, Walt Disney parlayed his animated films into successful comic strips, toys, and phonograph records. Initially, the studio licensed music from the films to other companies, but after the TV show Disneyland spawned a hit in 1955 with The Ballad of Davy Crockett, the company launched an in-house record outfit headed by noted big-band arranger Tutti Camarata. Besides soundtracks, read-along Storyteller LPs, and other children's releases, Disney lured Mary Martin and other adult-oriented singers and scored hits with such early '60s teen stars as Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills. Disney's labels cashed in on '70s fads with the double platinum Mickey Mouse Disco LP and the Mousercise workout album, rode into the CD era successfully, and now offer songs for download on iTunes. Hollis and Ehrbar obviously know and love Disney's music; what's more important is their thorough research. Besides detailed accounts of the diverse Disney releases, they provide sidebar biographies of dozens of performers. Though it lacks a discography, this is a valuable, highly readable addition to Disneyana.-- Booklist

Long before synergy became a corporate watchword, Walt Disney parlayed his animated films into successful comic strips, toys, and phonograph records. Initially, the studio licensed music from the films to other companies, but after the TV show Disneyland spawned a hit in 1955 with The Ballad of Davy Crockett, the company launched an in-house record outfit headed by noted big-band arranger Tutti Camarata. Besides soundtracks, read-along Storyteller LPs, and other children's releases, Disney lured Mary Martin and other adult-oriented singers and scored hits with such early '60s teen stars as Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills. Disney's labels cashed in on '70s fads with the double platinum Mickey Mouse Disco LP and the Mousercise workout album, rode into the CD era successfully, and now offer songs for download on iTunes. Hollis and Ehrbar obviously know and love Disney's music; what's more important is their thorough research. Besides detailed accounts of the diverse Disney releases, they provide sidebar biographies of dozens of performers. Though it lacks a discography, this is a valuable, highly readable addition to Disneyana.--Gordon Flagg Booklist Fills in a missing piece of the Disney legacy . . . and if you're a fan of Disneyana, this is a must-have.--Jerry Beck cartoonbrew.com An outstandingly well researched, exceptionally well organized, and very capably written history . . . The best Disney-related publication in recent memory.--Rhett Wickham laughingplace.com

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Tim Hollis lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Three of his previous books--histories of tourism and children's television--were published by University Press of Mississippi.|Two-time Grammy nominee Greg Ehrbar, a twenty-year Disney company veteran, is a writer of advertising, books, television specials, radio shows, compact discs, and Walt Disney Records Read-Alongs.

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