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The fellow you are talking about is someone named Gerry Hoff. As yet we have been unable to find out just who he was, but from the acting ability he displays in THE LOVE BUG and THE BOATNIKS, we suspect he may have been a Walt Disney Music Company accountant... or barber.. or plumber! Now that...

I haven't seen the article you mentioned, but I would assume the theme song it is talking about is the "I'm Chip / I'm Dale / A great sensational corporation / We are Chip 'n' Dale" tune (used in the FROM ALL OF US TO ALL OF YOU show, and probably elsewhere). I don't know that it was ever...

UPDATE TIME: Co-author Greg Ehrbar reports that he just completed a valuable interview with Roberta Shore. A very nice lady, says he. We also finally got some definitive answers as to the identities of the mysterious "Jungle V.I.P's" who did the off-model second cast songs from THE JUNGLE...

Robie Lester just called me yesterday to update me on things. She is undergoing some rather drastic chemotherapy treatments right now, but is keeping her spirits up. Everyone should remember her in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time... Incidentally, Robie's only on-screen...

Not being as familiar with the theme park attraction soundtracks, I can only assume that the Alice ride takes its card voices from the movie.. and yes, in the movie the cards were played by Thurl's quartet, the MelloMen. The others in the group at that time were Bob Stevens, Max Smith, and Bill...

Thurl Ravenscroft does not strike me as particularly bitter, but he is very proud of the wide variety of things he has done in his career, so that may amount to the same thing when it comes to people asking him only about Tony the Tiger over and over. He does not use e-mail, but several of the...

All indications are that the old SNOW WHITE set marked the first instance of music and voices being taken from a movie soundtrack and released on records... Randy Thornton informs me that the next set, the PINOCCHIO songs, was the first time the word "soundtrack" was used for such a procedure...

The book is arranged chronologically. Chapter 1 is the "pre-story," covering Disney record up through the end of 1955. In January 1956 Disney officially formed its own record label, and Chapter 2 goes from then until the end of 1958. We are working on Chapter 3, which is supposed to cover...

With so many new members coming on board, I thought it was time to update this post. The rough drafts of Chapters 1 and 2 are now being read and checked for errors by Randy Thornton, Tutti Camarata, and Thurl Ravenscroft. The manuscript of just those first two chapters is 76 pages long, so...

I guess I was more farsighted than most, because I actually kept most of the toys I had as a kid. Of course, most of them were the cartoon character tie-in variety. Now there's an interesting concept... What if someone combined the TOY STORY and ROGER RABBIT ideas and had character toys from...

This has certainly turned into a whole other topic than the one the heading indicates! ... But on the LADY & THE TRAMP LP, Ginny Tyler was the speaking voice of Peg (a la Mae West), while Teri York did the singing. You can hear Ginny do her same Mae impersonation on the COWARDLY LION OF OZ...

As Greg Ehrbar has pointed out, the 1961 Ludwig Von Drake LP is very much in the vein of the "spoken word" comedy albums that were so popular at the time (think Bob Newhart and Vaughn Meader). Other than the songs, it is basically one long monologue by Frees as Ludwig. You will love it when...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Bill, but I'm not even going to try to straighten out all the voice credits here (I'll save that for the book). However, I can tell you that the DUMBO storyteller LP was released in October 1957, and according to Leonard Maltin, Ed Brophy was still in perfetly...

Like almost everything else, I guess this is a subjective topic. I know people who had the ORANGE BIRD LP as kids, and it was their favorite. Maybe it depends on your age and mental attitude when you first hear it. Personally knowing the people involved with its production, and their...

Since you are researching the history of the Orange Bird character yourself, I will not go into that story here.. but about the LP, I can at least give you the cast, apart from Anita Bryant's narration. Robie Lester plays the Orange Bird, the evil cat, the mother, and the little sister.. plus...

And don't forget that the "Carousel of Color" song was performed on both the TV show and the recordings by the Wellingtons, the trio that sang the "Gilligan's Island" theme on the black & white episodes. Their Disney work predated Gilligan by a few years. They made quite a few singles and LP's...

My co-author Greg Ehrbar and I were just discussing the 101 Dalmatians LP yesterday, and he said that Betty Lou Gerson plays Cruella on it, just as she does in the film. If there is an Eleanor Audley version of the character, I am not familiar with it. The narrator of that LP is the voice that...

Yes, that was Ginny as Lucky the pup... our old buddy Dal McKennon was in that LP too (and of course he was also in the movie, although his contribution mainly consisted of barks). I hear, by the way, that Dal is turning Walt Disney World on its mouse ears and having a great time during his...

I know Frees appears on-screen in THE SHAGGY DOG, and he is heard in DONALD IN MATHMAGIC LAND, but neither of those qualify as animated features... Interesting point you have there!

As far as Disney goes, Ginny narrated most of the "Storyteller" LP's in the early 1960s, usually replacing the original narrators from the 1950s.. She remade SNOW WHITE, BAMBI, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, and others. She and Robie Lester teamed up for MORE MOTHER GOOSE, and Ginny was paired...