Disney's Divinity wrote:I, too, wish we could get the original cast singing the later song additions to the Broadway show and 2017 film, particularly with age taking its toll on the cast. (Similar to how I felt about the TLM Legacy release.)
Yeah, I had my own issues with that set, too. Bad enough they wouldn't bring in Pat Carroll to record "Silence is Golden" as a fully finished Lost Chord, but they didn't even include the demo on the disc although it appeared in the 1994 "Music Behind the Magic" CD, the 2006 DVD, and the 2013 Blu-Ray! Of course, they also omitted five other tracks from "Music Behind the Magic," so that was another problem as well.
Most of the Broadway songs for
The Little Mermaid are fairly forgettable (truthfully, both the original production and the remount are terrible), so I didn't mind that they didn't re-record any of the new songs for the Legacy Collection. But it would have been great to have a C.D. Barnes version of "Her Voice" or "One Step Closer," assuming that Barnes is a singer (is he?).
Disney's Divinity wrote:I hadn't seen the Susan Egan performances of HDaMLF? and B&tB before. Thank you for posting about them, Escapay.
You're welcome! The video was shot by my friend Dwayne (I was at another panel at D23 when this one was going on), so I'll let him know you appreciated it when I see him next month.
Disney Duster wrote:Once again this collection is for music pertaining to the original movies only.
Of the thirteen releases, nine include material that does not pertain to music featured in the original movies.
The Lion King includes "The Morning Report," a song created for the Broadway musical and later re-inserted into the film in 2003, but has been removed from the film since 2011.
Mary Poppins includes audio transcripts of story meetings, no songs or music are included on the tracks, but you do hear P.L. Travers be a bitch to Don DaGradi and the Sherman Brothers.
Sleeping Beauty contains two tracks from the Tutti Camarata "Songs of
Sleeping Beauty cover album; these orchestrations are not used in the original film.
Fantasia includes a track of Sterling Holloway narrating "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," not present in the final film, as well as
Make Mine Music's "Peter and the Wolf," which was never intended for
Fantasia. It also includes Irwin Kostal's 1982 digital re-recordings, which was certainly not used in 1940.
Pinocchio includes five Jiminy Cricket songs originally produced between 1955 and 1956 for educational cartoon shorts.
Lady and the Tramp includes the 1955 Disneyland Records album of six tracks, which, due to contract issues with Decca Records, re-recorded Peggy Lee's songs with Teri York and Robie Lester. Naturally, these tracks do not appear in the final film, and use extra lyrics not present in the film.
Disneyland consists entirely of theme park music, half of which isn't native to Disneyland: "The Bear Band Serenade," "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Medley," "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! Theme," and "The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Theme" originated in Walt Disney World, while the other tracks were all from Disney California Adventure.
Cinderella includes bonus tracks of the newly-recorded orchestral score from the 1995 album, which, you know, being 45 years later, was not used in 1950.
Robin Hood includes songs from Louis Prima's "Let's Hear It For Robin Hood" companion album, several of which were never intended for use in the film.
Albert
. Fingers crossed it's only a mock-up and we get something more representative of the film and its characters instead.