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>Remember 1950s-70s Disneyland Records......? Well, now they're
>back....Greg Ehrbahr and Tim Hollis have written a book, avaible only
>through EBay, Amazon and at Disney parks and Disney stores at a
>shopping mall near you as far as I know, called "Mouse Tracks: The
>Story of Walt Disney Records."
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>Such scintilatting (and boy, are they!) topics as the unsung
>storytellers (R.O.Moore, Robie Lester, and already famous Sterling
>Holloway from the animated cartoons and Disney radio shows) are
>discussed as well as the very controversial, in some quarters, use of
>different cast records (done most noably IMO with Winnie the Pooh,
>which used Sam Edwards as Tigger,(Paul Winchell, of course in the
>cartoons thru 1998 when he was kicked out ><:) Owl,(Hal Smith) and
>maybe some others, Robie "Your friendly Disney storyteller!" Lester as
>Kanga, Roo, even Rabbit !! as well as Christopher Robin and Piglet
>(voiced for many years by John Fiedler until his death in 2005!), also
>done with the Haunted Mansion ("Your friendly ghost host" (voiced by
>Paul Frees), in real life charged a ghostly price for his voice over
>services and so a n entitty familiar to many circles as Peter Reneday
>(born under themore hard to pronounce French name Peter Renoudet) took
>over; the pretty aforemntioned R.Lester and Ron Howard ("Grinch',"Da
>Vinci Code","A Beautioful Mind';"Happy Days",etc.) did two teenagers
>created for that 1969 haunted Mnasion records with Thurl Ravenscroft
>adding his own narration!). For many practical (by all means!) reasons
>these replacements were done..
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>Annette's work with (Tutti)"Camarata" is mentioned as is the history of
>Disneyland records.
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