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Since it is the Halloween season, I figured it would be fun to have a week themed around it. Come back each day this week to find a Halloween themed vinyl posted! Some of the planned postings are among the absolute classics!

Let me know if there are ones missing, that you'd like to see next year. If this goes well, I plan on doing something similar for the Christmas season as well.

All of the postings, up until today, have been the "See, Hear, and Read" records with matching books. I have begun to reach the end of my current collection of these records, and figured I would start another series. I'll continue to add these "See, Hear, and Read" records as I acquire them.

For the next few days you'll be seeing posts of souvenir records from the 1964/65 New York World's Fair and from the Disneyland park. I have really begun to enjoy these souvenir records and hope to collect many more for this section of my collection. Enjoy!

Since Dal McKennon was such an important contributor to the Disneyland Records being featured on this site, I felt it was appropriate to provide people with links to more information about him.

• DoomBuggies.com Blog
• Mouse Tracks - Blog Tracks
• Disney Theme Parks Examiner
• Cartoon Brew
• Los Angeles Times

Dallas McKennon has passed away at the age of 89. Often known as Dal, he was a common voice actor used by Disneyland Records in its earlier years. Dal voiced characters in: Stories of Uncle Remus Storyteller album, the Jungle Book Storyteller album, The Boatniks, and numerous others. His voice was used for characters ranging from Uncle Scrooge McDuck to Bert from Mary Poppins. Throughout his career he worked with many of the other notable voice actors, such as Robie Lester and Lois Lane.

While a major contributor to the Disneyland Record projects, he was also heavily involved with Disney's animation films and theme park attractions. You can learn a little more about Dal McKennon at: HERE

Those watching closely will have noticed that the first Star Wars album was published on here today (HERE). It seems they used the original John Williams music, but not the original voices. They seemed to have cut corners on the voices, and tried to make them sound like the original actors. I've really enjoyed these albums, and seeing how they cut down the story to fit into 24 pages with pictures!

Keep a close eye out over the next few days, as we have multiple albums in the Star Wars series to be published!

There are now 100 "See, Hear, and Read" albums posted on the site! Hopefully almost all requested albums from the series have been posted by now. I will soon be shifting into more of the Buena Vista Distribution side of the catalog, which will include titles such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and Gremlins! Stay tuned!

Normally these are about as useful as the subscription cards that fall out of your monthly magazines. I have only come across one of these so far, so it is unique to me. I suspect it was one of the first things to be thrown away after the purchase, or possibly even mailed into Disney for its intended purpose.

The reply card was found inside an album copyrighted 1968. So, a logical conclusion is that the card is from this time period. It makes sense since one of the questions is: "Do you have a Super 8mm home movie projector?"

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We have yet another example of different releases under the same catalog number. Today we're looking at Cinderella

The covers of the two editions was noticeably different, unlike Robin Hood.

Version A	Version B

Again, the text and readers are different. Version A was published in 1965 and Version B was published in 1977, just like Sleeping Beauty. One particularly unique difference was the way the record was kept with the book. Version B had the traditional method we usually see. Version A actually had it tucked in between two pages with words to the songs. I haven't seen this in other records in my collection, but I'll keep an eye out for it as we add more on here.

You can flip through them side-by-side:

The D23 site has an article about Robie Lester, the story reader for many of the SEE, HEAR, and READ records.

Article snippet:
"...Robie was the Disneyland Story Reader on more than 40 read-along sets from Sleeping Beauty in 1965 to Pecos Bill in 1970. Add to that her narration, characterizations and/or singing on more than 30 LP albums and dozens of single records, and you'll discover that Robie recorded more Disney records in total than any other performer in history, before or since, many of them amounting to many millions in sales..."

Read more at the D23 Site.

The most recent post (
Two Versions of the Same Story - Robin Hood) was about how Disneyland Records had released two different versions of Robin Hood. I've now found a similar case with Sleeping Beauty (Catalog #301).

The covers of the two editions was noticeably different, unlike Robin Hood.

Version A	Version B

Again, the text and readers are different. Version A was published in 1965 and Version B was published in 1977.

You can flip through them side-by-side: