| Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records Re-Issue Edition Contributor(s): Hollis, Tim (Author), Ehrbar, Greg (Author), Maltin, Leonard (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1578068495 ISBN-13: 9781578068494 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: This unique collector's item will delight generations of Disney music fans with anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of artists who brought fifty years of magical music to life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Music | Genres & Styles - Children's - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781.640 |
| LCCN: 2005024081 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 7.06" W x 8.98" (1.14 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and other creative artists who worked with Walt Disney Records. Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy Disney in the mid-1950s, when Disneyland Park, Davy Crockett, and the Mickey Mouse Club were taking the world by storm. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favorites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio. Authors Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar go behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studios and discover that in the early days Walt Disney and Roy Disney resisted going into the record business before the success of The Ballad of Davy Crockett ignited the in-house label. Along the way, the book traces the recording adventures of such Disney favorites as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Cinderella, Bambi, Jiminy Cricket, Winnie the Pooh, and even Walt Disney himself. Mouse Tracks reveals the struggles, major successes, and occasional misfires. Included are impressions and details of teen-pop princesses Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills, the Mary Poppins phenomenon, a Disney-style British Invasion, and a low period when sagging sales forced Walt Disney to suggest closing the division down. Complementing each chapter are brief performer biographies, reproductions of album covers and art, and facsimiles of related promotional material. Mouse Tracks is a collector's bonanza of information on this little-analyzed side of the Disney empire. Learn more about the book and the authors at www.mousetracksonline.com. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hollis, Tim: - Tim Hollis has published twenty-four books on pop culture history. For more than thirty years he has maintained a museum of cartoon-related merchandise in Dora, Alabama. He is the author of Dixie before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun; Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast; Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs; Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century; Toons in Toyland: The Story of Cartoon Character Merchandise; and, with Greg Ehrbar, Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records, all published by University Press of Mississippi.Ehrbar, Greg: - Greg Ehrbar is a two-time Grammy-nominated and Addy-winning writer who has spent over twenty-seven years with Disney. He is coauthor of Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records and coeditor of Inside the Whimsy Works: My Life with Walt Disney Productions, both published by University Press of Mississippi, and contributor to the Official Disney Parks Blog; The Cartoon Music Book, Celebrating the Magic: 40 Years of Walt Disney World; and numerous Disney journals, books, and sites. |