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Mono/Stereo Some interesting bits in this thread if you missed it. I've asked the same question (more or less) in a different thread. Would they have bothered as the speakers were mono? Did the World's Fair have stereo speakers? Did Disney take a stereo source and then convert to mono so the...

SoundmanG, was the source recording made in mono or stereo do you remember? It obviously plays mono through the speaker but how was the original recorded?

Yes, I can now confirm that the Gibson Girl loop is a guy at a piano (but there's a guy with a drum and cymbal as well) playing away) and that the Gibson Girl/Cable Car playlist in the blog is the original loop. I was totally wrong about the Casey's loop being amalgamated into it. A present...

The balloon flight over France and the section where Jules is on the front of the high speed train. Remember I'm used to the French version.

Ah, that one. Haven't played that one for ages. Forgotten all about it! Thanks for the reminder (I think it was the Rock Shock track that put me off playing it) Without sitting through the entire tracks (thanks but not my cup of tea at all) it does seem (sounds like) to be the latter half of the...

I'm worried now. I can't locate a 10th anniversary CD in my collection. Do you remember the actual title or a link to a cover photo (or even a description of it)? May have been that it wasn't out when I went that year (possible considering the stupid time of year they release them). I really...

Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it. We seem to remember Casey's playing some obvious things like "take me out to the ballgame" on player piano but for the last few years (probably much longer) it's been playing the Gibson Girl/ Cable Car loop. Unfortunately it probably means that half...

I suppose it's a question of what one collects. As someone who brings home a selection of plastic bags, till receipts as well as the park tickets and other general rubbish, I'd still add it to my collection - even though it's duplicated. In that aspect, it's a decent selection in my opinion. As...

Having listened to it, I've changed my mind, it's a good CD. That doesn't excuse them for not doing a decent general park CD for the 20th though. I think their title expresses it better - "vintage collection" and certainly not the best of what's in/been in the park. Maybe it lost something in...

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I wrote to the mail order department and, interestingly, this is what they called the new CD - 20th anniversary album CD vintage collection and not "the best of". That explains it.

Dear God, that's really scraping the bottom of the barrel! Even I don't remember that! Nice to see Claque des Doigts even though the Winnie the Pooh show ended a while back. Best of? I don't think so either. En scene sil vous plait would have been nice there but very little there to take home...

I'll probably get it just to add to the collection. Speaking of which have spent the last 2 days searching for the copy of Magic Everywhere I bought a couple of weeks ago at the park. I have no idea what I did with it (I know it arrived home as it was packed in the middle of my clothes for...

Yes, I made this same mistake elsewhere. it explains a lot as some of the edits just didn't seem to have a reason for them.

Could well be. Many of the tracks now used in the Gibson Girl are medleys of the sort of stuff you would play if someone said "give us a tune". I suspect that they were originally the loop for Casey's though (designated as player-piano). I don't suppose you recall any of the tunes now do you...

You'll note, no Dreams. Decent park album? No chance. Releasing stuff so late in the year when the crowds are going down shows what they think, I suggest. The very first was a great album. Since then retrospective stuff which most purchasers won't know anything about. Nice pop-up included...

Ah, I see. That makes sense. The "strange" edits on some tracks has always confused me as to "why". That explains it if they want a particular track but need to trim a little off it while still making it seem whole. I'd often wondered why the odd second was removed here and there and some...

Fascinating stuff. As I said, in this particular case, Disney did take the track from a CD as the earlier CD version matches exactly that in the loop (3:03) but subsequent releases are the longer time (3:13). You are quite right, Disney does make it difficult sometimes with editing and what...

As a little "extra" to the sheet music, subscriber trunk dialling (STD) started in the UK back in 1958 and was completed in 1979. Before std, you dialled (locally) three letters followed by four numbers (when phones had both letters and numbers on the dial). Locally, that phone number would have...

I wonder if the tune was acquired by Disney (or TDL). They have obviously used it somewhere as that picture shows. I would think that that is more "property of" rather than ownership though (no mention of copyright on that page - I'd love to see the first page of the manuscript)..