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Other than Greg's list, I might also mention that Dal McKennon lives in Cannon Beach, Oregon. I don't know how far that is from Seattle or whether he could travel by this time next year, but if he could, I'm sure he'd be in there hamming it up with the best of them. I know that Dick Beals --...

Thanks for including Greg Ehrbar and me and MOUSE TRACKS in the invitation. Hopefully at least one of us can make it, if not both. I know the NFFC people are already well aware of the fact, but everyone should realize that Ginny Tyler lives in Seattle. I know her health has been somewhat...

This is the official announcement just released by the marketing department at the University Press of Mississippi. To paraphrase a song from THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE, "it won't be long 'til April." ------- MUSIC HISTORY / POP CULTURE Mouse Tracks The Story of Walt Disney Records Tim Hollis and...

Greg Ehrbar and I just received the sad news that our little friend Robie Lester passed away on Tuesday, June 14. She had been battling leukemia for many years, and our last communication from her was just a couple of weeks ago when she sent additions and corrections for her biographical sidebar...

As Uncle Scrooge said in the 1960 DONALD DUCK & HIS FRIENDS LP: "I never thought o' that!" Here is the table of contents as it has been turned in (years are approximate, as some chapters waver back & forth according to subject matter): CHAPTER ONE: Davy Crockett Blazes the Trail (1928-54)...

Some of you may be wondering if the book MOUSE TRACKS: THE STORY OF WALT DISNEY RECORDS, by Greg Ehrbar and Yours Truly, got finished in time for its projected October 2005 release. The answer is no, we ran six months over deadline, but the entire 367-page, 76,181-word, 139-illustration...

Oh yes, Ginny is a good friend of ours and a delightful little lady. We have turned in the first six chapters (through 1964) to the publisher as of today, and it is making rapid progress. We MAY not hit the original October 2005 publication date, but hopefully it will appear sometime between...

Rhoda Williams (Cinders's stepsister Drizella, better known from the radio version of FATHER KNOWS BEST) says that she was the original voice of both the mother and the daughter. Since the soundtrack has been redone so often, her version has probably been lost for years. Incidentally, has...

You are correct about Thurl, but the BABES IN TOYLAND second cast LP is a little different in that only the songs are re-created. The non-musical portion consists only of Ginny Tyler narrating as Little Boy Blue. However, the songs are all well done and distinctively the Camarata style. Thurl...

I would throw in some comments here, but Greg Ehrbar and I are completely snowed under with trying to get the book manuscript finished on time. We did get the first four chapters turned in to the publisher last week so they can begin the production process, but we have eight or ten more...

I'll second Michael's recommendation of this LP, but will add that he left out another Disney regular who has a major role in it. Frees, as Dracula, has some very funny dialogue with his wife Vampira, who is played by Loulie Jean Norman. (Best line... Their son: "Good night, Mommy." Vampira...

We just received news this morning that Sam Edwards passed away last night at the age of 89. He had a long and distinguished career in radio, movies, and television but found a second (or third or fourth) life on Disneyland Records from the early 1960s (THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR, supporting...

I have said this before elsewhere, but it would appear that the ULTIMATE origin of Splash Mountain was a dark ride at Six Flags Over Georgia from 1967-80. Theirs was called "Tales of the Okefenokee," and featured many eerily similar animated dioramas. It even had a flume/splash, although in...

In case no one has pointed it out yet, the quartet singing the Columbia sea chanties is the MelloMen (Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee, Max Smith and Bob Hamlin at the time), and the "salty narration" is our buddy the ubiquitous Dal McKennon. That narration may be about as close to his natural...

Yes, Ben Ohmart's biography of Frees was just released in either March or April. It is very well done and the most complete analysis of Frees' career anyone is likely to be able to compile. In fact, some readers may find it is a little TOO complete, as Ben chose to discuss every minor film in...

Marilyn Hooven was doing quite a bit of work (usually uncredited) for Disneyland Records in those days. Unfortunately, unlike many of our previous success stories, when Greg and I attempted to contact her for THE STORY OF DISNEYLAND RECORDS, we were told by her daughter that Ms. Hooven is in...

Yes, Bob Brunner is still alive and well and is providing many interesting bits of history for THE STORY OF DISNEYLAND RECORDS. His association with Disney actually goes all the way back to an appearance as a kid on one of the 1950s Mickey Mouse Club episodes (as a Talent Roundup winner, I...

I'm surprised no one else has answered this yet... my pal Greg Ehrbar must be snowed under with work at his office or he would have weighed in on it himself.. but the LP you are thinking of is probably the one on the Golden Records label (which Greg recently provided to me) that featured Jiminy...

While we're on the subject of Ms. Clooney, most people probably know that her big hit "Come On-A My House" was written by Ross Bagdasarian before he made it big with Alvin & the Chipmunks. But to tie everything back to the subject at hand, how many people know that Walt Disney himself was...

I have already told Greg that I think we're on the right track. How ironic that his "fluke" may turn out to be the most evocative title of all! Maybe that was von of dose subconscious tings dot Ludvig Von Drake vass alvays talkin' about. The only thing that would make it even more appealing...