Randy Thornton
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The THIRD major release of summer '09...
As you may have read in the Press Release Jay posted in the Music Notes forum, the third album is:
The Haunted Mansion attraction soundtrack CD.
This is not just a repackaging of the first Haunted Mansion attraction CD, it's an entirely new album! I went into this project with the idea of adding to what had already been released and not replicating it.
The Ride-Thru is totally new – rebuilt from the ground up to reflect how the attraction appears today. The other six tracks showcase the music from and inspired by the Haunted Mansion. Though you might be concerned there are only 7 tracks, you'll find that 4 of the 7 tracks are rather lengthy – ranging from 7 minutes to 14 minutes each.
The Press Release pretty much gives you the run-down on what's on the album. So I'll not repeat all of that here. The packaging is a digipack. The inside pocket includes a booklet with brief liner notes about the history of the attraction and photos of the key imagineers that brought the Haunted Mansion to... well, life. The cover image of the facade was taken shortly after landscaping (but still years before the attraction opened) and you'll notice there is no walkway to the front door yet. One of my favorite images is inside the booklet. It's of the facade before the landscaping was done. It looks like an old photo of a Manor house from the 1800's that you might see in a historical documentary.
I will be going into great detail about this album at the D23 Expo. If you're there on September 10th, I'll be presenting “The Haunted Mansion – The Sounds of Spooks and Music of the Macabre” (from 3:30pm to 5:00pm on Stage 23). Armed with a portable Digital Workstation, my good friend and engineer Jeff Sheridan and I will demonstrate how this album was assembled – from ordering the elements all the way up to final mastering. Along the way, you'll not only hear about the technical aspects of what the production entails, but I'll also be able to share some of the musical history of the Haunted Mansion that I learned directly from Buddy Baker himself.
As mentioned in the Press Release, the release date for this album is September 9th.
If you're one of the lucky ones that are able to attend the Haunted Mansion 40th Anniversary Event on the 9th, keep an eye out for a black box the same size and dimensions as The Musical History of Disneyland. It contains both of The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion, The Haunted Mansion CDs as well as three other surprises. This is an extremely limited release and will only be available at the event!
Well, that should do it for this album. In other news, there are 4 vintage albums I'm working on for release on iTunes by the end of the year. Two were available on the Wonderland system, the other two are first time releases. I had to choose titles that were relatively easy to complete this time, as I just began production on a new major project. This new project may not be of much interest to the Park music fans, but I believe the Film Score fans might get a kick out of it. More on that title in a few months.
With Walt Disney and the 1964 World's Fair set, The Sherman Brothers Songbook, The Story and Song from The Haunted Mansion, and The Haunted Mansion, it's been quite a year for historic recordings! I hope that you have been and will be enjoying these releases for years to come!
All my best,
Randy Thornton
As you may have read in the Press Release Jay posted in the Music Notes forum, the third album is:
The Haunted Mansion attraction soundtrack CD.
The Ride-Thru is totally new – rebuilt from the ground up to reflect how the attraction appears today. The other six tracks showcase the music from and inspired by the Haunted Mansion. Though you might be concerned there are only 7 tracks, you'll find that 4 of the 7 tracks are rather lengthy – ranging from 7 minutes to 14 minutes each.
The Press Release pretty much gives you the run-down on what's on the album. So I'll not repeat all of that here. The packaging is a digipack. The inside pocket includes a booklet with brief liner notes about the history of the attraction and photos of the key imagineers that brought the Haunted Mansion to... well, life. The cover image of the facade was taken shortly after landscaping (but still years before the attraction opened) and you'll notice there is no walkway to the front door yet. One of my favorite images is inside the booklet. It's of the facade before the landscaping was done. It looks like an old photo of a Manor house from the 1800's that you might see in a historical documentary.
I will be going into great detail about this album at the D23 Expo. If you're there on September 10th, I'll be presenting “The Haunted Mansion – The Sounds of Spooks and Music of the Macabre” (from 3:30pm to 5:00pm on Stage 23). Armed with a portable Digital Workstation, my good friend and engineer Jeff Sheridan and I will demonstrate how this album was assembled – from ordering the elements all the way up to final mastering. Along the way, you'll not only hear about the technical aspects of what the production entails, but I'll also be able to share some of the musical history of the Haunted Mansion that I learned directly from Buddy Baker himself.
As mentioned in the Press Release, the release date for this album is September 9th.
If you're one of the lucky ones that are able to attend the Haunted Mansion 40th Anniversary Event on the 9th, keep an eye out for a black box the same size and dimensions as The Musical History of Disneyland. It contains both of The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion, The Haunted Mansion CDs as well as three other surprises. This is an extremely limited release and will only be available at the event!
Well, that should do it for this album. In other news, there are 4 vintage albums I'm working on for release on iTunes by the end of the year. Two were available on the Wonderland system, the other two are first time releases. I had to choose titles that were relatively easy to complete this time, as I just began production on a new major project. This new project may not be of much interest to the Park music fans, but I believe the Film Score fans might get a kick out of it. More on that title in a few months.
With Walt Disney and the 1964 World's Fair set, The Sherman Brothers Songbook, The Story and Song from The Haunted Mansion, and The Haunted Mansion, it's been quite a year for historic recordings! I hope that you have been and will be enjoying these releases for years to come!
All my best,
Randy Thornton
