# Who remembers Disney record albums from the early animated movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783 "2015-01-02T17:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/41 "2015-01-07T21:46:32Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I think I just preferred albums like _Free To Be You And Me_ and my _Sesame Street_ albums, where I could sing along. Not listen to some dumb story! Was this before or after the age of video players? In many ways, to those of us who grew up in the pre-VCR days, the record player was to us what the VCR or DVD player was to later generations. We couldn’t watch “some dumb story,” but we could listen to one. Then videotape players came along and took over some of the entertainment burden, leaving record players mostly for playing music—in much the same way that TV came along and replaced much of the non-musical entertainment function of radio. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/42 "2015-01-07T21:56:05Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Was this before or after the age of video players? > > In many ways, to those of us who grew up in the pre-VCR days, the record player was to us what the VCR or DVD player was to later generations. We couldn’t watch “some dumb story,” but we could listen to one. Then videotape players came along and took over some of the entertainment burden, leaving record players mostly for playing music—in much the same way that TV came along and replaced much of the non-musical entertainment function of radio. I didn’t mean to imply that listening to stories was dumb, I just meant that I preferred to sing and dance to music as a kid than listen to stories. I straddled the age of VCRs. Didn’t have one when I was actively listening to records as a tot, but did have one once I was old enough to watch _Clue_. (One of the first movies I remember renting!) The stories we listened to, if we did at all, were just 45s. Never got in to the LP stories. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/43 "2015-01-08T21:55:27Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I didn’t mean to imply that listening to stories was dumb, I just meant that I preferred to sing and dance to music as a kid than listen to stories. . . . . You could put on the LP with a story at bedtime and fall asleep listening to it. Or if you didn’t fall asleep, you were entertained for the amount of time it played. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/44 "2015-01-08T23:45:48Z")
I definitely had a couple, and yeah, they had paper pages inside recounting the story. I believe I had _Bambi_, and _The Rescuers_ (_high-fives **Sicks Ate** _). I probably only saw each movie once or twice, but here goes a sample of my memory for the songs, 30+ years later: Be brave, little one Make a wish for each sad little tear Hold your head up Though no one is near Someone’s waiting for you . . . (just Googled it and yes - nailed it!) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/45 "2015-01-09T00:00:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > When I was little, I had [_The Best Stories of Aesop_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nsvhFNydJM). Holy crap! I played the shit out of this one when I was a kid! That dude’s voice was like crack to me. As far as the read along thing goes, I vaguely remember something about every time you heard a bell ring you were supposed to turn the page. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/46 "2015-01-09T04:36:47Z")
The Disney records I had were all 45s. I don’t remember any read-along books; maybe my older brothers wore them out. Here are the ones I remember. 2-disk sets: 20000 Leagues under the Sea; Toot, Whistle, Plunk, Boom; Alice in Wonderland; Peter Pan. We also had some singles. At least one had edited cartoon soundtracks: Three Little Pigs/Orphan’s Benefit. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/47 "2015-01-09T14:45:38Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Holy crap! I played the shit out of this one when I was a kid! The one I played the shit out of was [_A Child’s Introduction To Outer Space_](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7eliDhERy3E/maxresdefault.jpg). It drove my sister, eight years older than I, absolutely nuts; I played it so much. But when she had a quiz in school to name all of the planets (even Pluto), she got them all right. I remember the song as ‘The Wandering Stars’, but apparently its title is _The Story Of The Planets_. I would dearly love to find a copy of this album for download. I had one other record that I remember when I was a kid (like ACITOS, not a Disney record). It was a _Popeye_ LP. I don’t remember anything about it, other than it somehow got broken in half. I think I got clumsy. Either that, or the cat did it. I can’t remember. As for _The Jungle Book_, I didn’t have it. But my friend did, and we listened to it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783/48 "2015-01-10T05:52:06Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > We had an album of Disney’s “Robin Hood”. The album had the songs from the movie connected by a very abbreviated retelling of the story (by Roger Miller) and the album cover opened into an accompanying picture book as you described. > > [http://www.discogs.com/Roger-Miller-Story-And-Songs-From-Robin-Hood/release/3576401](http://www.discogs.com/Roger-Miller-Story-And-Songs-From-Robin-Hood/release/3576401) Yeah, I had a whole bunch of those when I was a kid! (They were passed on to me from my cousin, when she outgrew them) I can’t remember all of the ones I had, but my favorites were _Cinderella_ and _Lady and the Tramp_. Anyone remember Mickey Mouse Disco? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-disney-record-albums-from-the-early-animated-movies/708783.md?page=2)