Joseph,
Thanks for sharing about the exhibit. I wonder what changes (if any) they will make to the exhibit in Florida. If anyone gets there, please make a post and let us know.
Glad you made it to see Stacia's presentation. Wish I could have made that one. Did you take any pictures or recordings?
Speaking of Stacia, last night I was watching a True Life Adventure Series (DVD #3) and they had a "Collector's Corner" extra that starred her talking about memoribillia from the series including some soundtracks.
Ken
I'm afraid I never even thought of taking pictures or recording. I have quite a good retentive memory though, so I can pretty much tell you all the things she played and showed. Here are some:
-First record with a Disney song: "Mickey Mouse Song" on a 7" Playtime children's record, early '30s.
-The first Disney record she ever owned(stolen from her brother!) "Songs from Uncle Remus" Mickey Mouse Club 78rpm record, DBR 66, she played "Zip a Dee Dooh Dah" by Jimmie Dodd and the Executives
-A great little tune called "I Am Not Now(and Never Have Been In Love)" by Tommy Cole and Darlene Gillespie, with Quincy Jones and his Orchestra on Hansen Records, from 1955
-A promo of the Osmonds singing "I'd Like To Be You For a Day" from the film "Freaky Friday" from 1976
-The Beatles tune "All My Lovin'" sung by Annette Funicello from the LP "Something Borrowed, Something Blue"(1965)
-A production acetate of Hayley Mills and her double, Susan Henning, recording a scene from "The Parent Trap"
-A production acetate of an unknown female vocal group singing the song "The Shaggy Dog" with sound man Jimmy McDonald as Shaggy from 1958. Then she played the version with Roberta Shore and Paul Frees from the 1959 "The Shaggy Dog" LP and asked if anyone in the audience knew who was doing the voice of Shaggy. (Of course I shouted out the answer. She was impressed.)
-Some radio station promo LP's, with radio ads for "The Parent Trap"(1968 reissue), "Bambi" (an interview with Walt Disney)(1963 reissue), "Now You See Him, Now You Don't", with Kurt Russell, 1972
-A selection from the album "Teen Street", from 1963 (although she said 1964,oops!) with Maurice Chevalier and Hayley Mills (hilarious)
-Hayley Mills singing "America The Beautiful" from Pollyanna, 1960.
-Hayley Mills and others singing "Femininity" from the Alcoa Wrap promo 45 of "Summer Magic" - these songs were recorded especially for the 45, not from the soundtrack LP
-A production acetate of Annette singing "I Can't Do the Sum" from "Babes in Toyland"
-A portion of former Mouseketeer Judy Harriet's version of "Tall Paul" on Surf Records, before Annette recorded it
-Several versions of the song "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party" through the years.
-A song called "Pluto's Song", sung in Italian from an Italian record (also hilarious)
-"Alice in Wonderland" and "All In The Golden Afternoon" from the 1957 album "Alice in Wonderland"
-"Come Go With Me" from Darlene Gillespie's 1957 album "Darlene of The Teens"
Plus several other things, but I've probably already bored you enough. Maybe I'll list them a little later.
She also gave out raffle tickets as we entered and had a raffle at the end for several of the Xeroxed copies of album art hanging on the wall behind her. I was one of the winners as luck would have it. I picked a 78rpm cover of "The Mickey Mouse Club March/The Merry Mouseketeers' March" on Hollywood Recording Guild #2005, a record I don't already own.
She told the audience she would love at some point to publish a book with art from Disney records. I hope she does. She has so much great stuff in her collection.
