A neighbor kid had “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” on a record, but I don’t remember if it was a 45 (probably) or on an album.
I had this album, which had “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” and other songs and stories. It’s probably the main reason I’m familiar with Brer Rabbit et al; I don’t remember whether I ever saw the movie “Song of the South” or not, but I definitely remember listening to the record album.
I remember one we had with “Peter and the Wolf” on one side and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” on the other.
Each had Sterling Halloway telling the story with the orchestra.
If it had a booklet that may have been lost before I was around to use the record.
I remember them, all right! I had quite a few, and the English lady whose house I stayed at while my parents worked had others (her son let me look at them and listen to them).
You guys are right–some were soundtrack albums with just the songs, and others had the songs and some storytelling/narration/dialogue samples in between, with booklets to go with it.
I did have the Jungle Book one, but I also had “More Jungle Book”–the FIRST Jungle Book sequel, which I give more credence than the eventual Jungle Book 2 since this actually had Cabot, Harris, and Prima. It had a similar plot–Baloo is brokenhearted over missing Mowgli. (I remembered being touched by one of Baloo’s lines: “I never had a brother, or a sister, or even a real pal until I met Mowgli.”) So Bagheera and Louie bring Mowgli back for a visit. (Louie finally had a chance to get some of “man’s red flower”, but one touch of a red-hot coal convinced him that man was welcome to it!) The story ended with Mowgli returning to his life in the village, but promising to regularly visit his old friends–and, of course, it couldn’t wrap up without a triumphant reprise of “The Bare Necessities”!
But the bit that stood out to me was a really catchy and witty song of King Louie’s: “If you wanna see some strange behavior, take a look at Man!/Gotta give the prize for strange behavior to the people clan!/They lie, they cheat, they overeat/They knock each other flat/Tell me, have you seen another animal/Act like that?”
(You know, now that I think of it…Disney’s DTV sequels were often slammed quite a bit–not entirely undeservedly, since many of them were of poorer quality than the animated features. But just to play devil’s advocate, the sequels were only doing what the record albums and comics and Little Golden Books had already been doing for years! Scamp, son of Lady and the Tramp, starred in many of those LONG before the DTV animated movie that featured him.)
But my favorite Disney albums were handed down to me by my sister. They were both on the Disneyland label (purple label, silver lettering) and were both Winnie-the-Pooh albums. But these had nothing to do with the actual Pooh movies that were out. Rather, they came straight from Milne. (The booklets that came with the album had been lost before they came down to me.)
The first was “Now We Are Six.” This featured artwork of Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet, the gang, and a girl who I guess was Anne from one of the poems. But the only ones who ever showed up in the poems were C.R. and Pooh. This was an album of many different poems from Milne’s book “Now We Are Six”–some of them recited by Sterling Holloway, some of them set to (very nice) music and sung by a chorus.
Some highlights: during the poem “A Thought” (set to music), which normally was only four lines long, a dry English voice recited in the instrumental break, “Isn’t that a funny thing, I never thought of that! If I were John and John were me, then he’d be six and I’d be three!”
And in his introduction to the Alexander Beetle poem, Sterling explained, “This poem is about a beetle…not a singing Beatle, like Ringo…” At the age of four, I didn’t know what he meant–I thought he was saying “raincoat.”
The other album was “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger,” which was even more interesting. These were two word-for-word stories straight from Milne (with only a few alterations or omissions), recited by Sterling Holloway with other actors doing the dialogue for the other roles. (The great Thurl Ravenscroft did Eeyore’s.) Sort of half audio book and half radio play. One side was “Tigger Has Breakfast”, which was Tigger’s introduction story, and the other side was “Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees.” There were two songs throughout–the “Winnie The Pooh Theme” and a very nice, melodious version of “I Could Spend A Happy Morning Being Pooh.”
(One bit I liked…there was one part where the actor playing Roo couldn’t stop giggling, and Sterling Holloway broke from his narration to say, “Quiet, please, Roo.” They left it in.)
Since I was reading at a very young age, I remember being in my room on a sunny afternoon, at the age of about four, following along with the words in my “World of Pooh” book.
“I’m wishing (I’m wishing) for the one I love
To find me (to find me) today (today)…”
“Hi diddle dee dee, an actor’s life for me…”
“We can do it, we can do it, we can help our Cinderelly…”
“Never smile at a crocodile,
Never tip your hat and stop to talk a while…”
“We are Siamese if you please…”
Nope, no idea what the OP is talking about.
I had (and STILL have, btw - be jealous!) this one and the one for The Jungle Book. I know there are others around here, but those two I can put my hands on immediately. They’re both “Walt Disney Presents” albums and have the short book with illustrations inside the front cover and the 33 1/3 LP. Mine were “well-loved” so aren’t in mint condition. Right now I can hear my neighbor next door outside working in his yard and he can hear my stereo whenever I play it and he’s outside - so maybe I’ll freak him out and go put on the Jungle Book and turn up the volume and see if he dances around to “The Bear Necessities.” 
I just loved the album cover for the Snow White one when I was a little girl! I wanted to crawl in through the mirror and live in Snow-White land with her and the prince and the critters and everyone!
I had some story albums. The album cover would open and have comic strips on the inside and you could play the record along with it. A little “ding” indicated when to turn the page in case you couldn’t read I suppose. I seem to remember one of them having Disney characters (Donald and Uncle Scrooge IIRC). There was also a fantastically cheesy Bible stories version (pretty sure that wasn’t from Disney though).
We had a whole bunch of them, at least 10, that we got for Christmas one year.
Alice in Wonderland
Mary Poppins
Peter Pan
Pinocchio
The Jungle Book
Winnie the Pooh and the Hunny Tree
Bambi
Snow White
Cinderella
Lady and the Tramp
Some of them are offered on eBay. Here’s an example.
The covers on most of them had a similar design: A “stage curtain” looking cover with an oval cutout revealing part of the front page of the book.
Hey, why stick with just the animated movies? As a kid I had the 1963 Disneyland Records recording of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which was IIRC a condensed version of the plot, plus that delightful Sea Shanty, “A Whale of a Tale”…most of which I can still sing!
I had some of these, though none that I recall with a built in book.
My favorite was 101 Dalmations, owing mostly to Cruella DeVil
"... if she doesn't scare ya no evil thing will"
I wonder if anyone can help me remember one of which I have a few sketchy details.
It was some kind of adventure story with no music that I can recall. It had something to do with explorers up in a blimp(?) and one of them may have been voiced by David Niven, or a David Nivenesque type. The only other thing I sort of remember is that part of it took place near the North Pole and had something to do with hunting (or possibly saving) whales(this is where I learned the word “ambergris”). Does that ring anyone’s bell?
I played that one to death as a child. We also had a number of other ones – Snow White, Cinderella, and The Aristocats for certain, as well as one or two with songs from Winnie the Pooh cartoons.
We had Sleeping Beauty.
Missed edit window. I remember the spooky voice saying, “Aurora…Aurora…”
We had the Bambi story/book/album, the way that hogarth and others have described. We also had the soundtrack album from Mary Poppins and some of the early Winnie the Pooh songs. I think there was a Winnie the Pooh story, but it was specifically my sister’s.
I remembered it as having more songs, so I had to go googling. Yup. There were five.
It looks like they have a list.
Apparently we had at least one collection of Silly Symphonies on LP, it included “The Flying Mouse”. All I really remember is my brother, the pain in the ass, repeating “You’re Nothin’ but a Nothin’” at me.
Am I the only one who had “Bongo, the Circus Bear”? I think I played that one to death. I had “Peter and the Wolf” as well.
That’s not the Bambi record I had. That one has “siongs from BAMBI” on the cover. This is the story record I had:
They differ in more than the cover.
When I was…maybe 9? I got the storybook album for “The Haunted Mansion”. We turned out all the lights in the house and played it on the record player. Pretty creepy, but I put on a good front. I listened to that over and over again. Audio is, of course, available on youtube: - YouTube
We had a Sleeping Beauty album that I distinctly remember not listening to. I don’t know if it was because the artwork was so scary (there was a lovely large picture of Maleficient) or if because it was just plain boring, and I’d never seen the movie so I didn’t care.
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!
Interesting. There must have been quite a market to support the different versions. At least I assume there was also a songs-only version, too.