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WAGONMASTER will be screened at the Bing Theater, LACMA, Los Angeles, Tues., August 16, 2005, 1.00 pm.

The cover of the Disney composer "Cue Sheet" with the Oliver Wallace essay: Composer Leigh Harline (THE OLD MILL, MUSIC LAND and many other Silly Symphonies and other 1930s shorts, PINOCCHIO); Walt Disney; composer Frank Churchill (many 1930s shorts, SNOW WHITE, DUMBO, BAMBI). Photo...

If you are interested in the work of Disney studio composer, Oliver Wallace, please check out this site until August 7, 2005. http://www.savedisney.com/news/essays/rc031704.1.asp

Re:Stan Jones, WAGONMASTER, and Pecos Bill If you live in the Los Angeles area and are interested in Stan Jones LACMA (Los Angeles Museum of Art) is screening John Ford's WAGONMASTER in August. Stan Jones wrote four great songs for this film. I always think of WAGONMASTER as Ford's "Musical"...

You're welcome. I'm a big wide-screen fan. I forgot to mention that Disney also shot a Donald Duck in CinemaScope, "Grand CanyonScope". It's on the "20,000 Leagues" DVD and is a great cartoon, one of funniest of the late period Duck toons. Also, "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom" is shown in a...

I'm curious. Is this the old Disneyland LP which has Jiminy Cricket helping with the narration? ::)

"The Robe" was the first film in CinemaScope, released in 1953. 20th Century-Fox's CinemaScope was their answer to Cinerama, a 3-camera, 3-projector process which could only be shown in specially renovated theaters. CinemaScope used an anamorphic lens instead of the three camera process...

Stan Jones did a national park album for Disney. I believe it claims he was (among other things) a park ranger, and that "Ghost Riders" was dreamed up during some park campfire sessions (or something like that). "Ghost Riders" was a tremendous hit in the late '40s/1950s. Vaughn Monroe had the...

Thanks, Ken. I've never seen this set. I like the album cover art as much as the LPs themselves. I'm wondering if the set includes the original album covers, and if there is any additionl art included? And you are correct about the Redheads track.

Has anyone mentioned Camarata's great "Seasons" albums from Disneyland Records? (I just found the "Summer" LP in a local thrift shop). The "Fantasia"-like cover art is also wonderful and one of the few examples of Disney commercial art which is actually signed by the artist. I especially like...