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I am often surprised when I go through the records to digitize them. I sometimes come across interesting items, which are unexpected. I was recently pulling a record out of the cardboard sleeve and came across a Disneyland Record sleeve. Since I buy many of the records from eBay, the records have been through quite a lot before they get to me. I often find people have discarded the paper sleeve, or used one from some other album. The album that I found this in was marked as being $1.98, in what appeared to be a fairly original price tag. I found it interesing that this sleeve shows the price as $3.98.

This month, Make Magazine highlighted a video showing how vinyl records are made.
From the blog post:
"For the last couple of years there has been a resurgence in popularity of vinyl records. Largely due to digital downloads rending the portability of compact discs obsolete, people are starting to gravitate to vinyl as the physical format of choice. In this short documentary from Nick Cavalier we get a behind-the-scenes look at the production of vinyl records at Gotta Groove Records, a new vinyl pressing plant in Cleveland, Ohio."

Gotta Groove Records - "Groove With Us" from Nick Cavalier on Vimeo.

Original Post on Make Magazine blog.

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.

UPDATE : Check out the post Halloween Vinyl!

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: