BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Walt Disney
Records releases the final four installments to The Legacy
Collection series. Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection
Lady and The Tramp, Pocahontas, The Aristocats, and
Disneyland complete the 12-set series that launched with
The Lion King in June
2014.
Each CD cover and booklet features newly created artwork from
Lorelay Bove, a visual development
artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios ("Big Hero 6," "Wreck-It
Ralph," "Tangled"). Bove was recently named one of '10
Animators to Watch' by Variety (March
3, 2015).
The Legacy Collection Lady and The Tramp -
Released to theaters on June 22,
1955, "Lady and the Tramp" was the first animated feature to
be filmed in Cinemascope and its sequence of Lady and Tramp sharing
a plate of spaghetti is considered an iconic scene in American
film. Lady and the Tramp was named No. 95 out of the "100
Greatest Love Stories of All Time" by the American Film Institute
in their 100 Years...100 Passions special, as one of only
two animated films to appear on the list. In June 2011, TIME named the feature one of
"The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films."
Disc One of The Legacy Collection Lady and the Tramp
features the restored original motion picture soundtrack with songs
written by Peggy Lee and
Sonny Burke. Disc
Two features The Lost Chords of Lady and the Tramp – a demo
of "I'm Free as a Breeze" and 2 new recordings of "I'm Free as a
Breeze" and "I'm Singin' ('Cause I Want to Sing), brought to life
the way they would have sounded in 1955. Disc Two also
includes 6 bonus tracks from the 1962 vinyl release Lady and the
Tramp: All the Songs from the Motion Picture (Disneyland
Records) featuring studio singers.
The Legacy Collection Pocahontas - The
label honors the soundtrack from Disney's first full-length
animated feature film based on historical fact with the
20th anniversary release of Walt Disney Records The
Legacy Collection Pocahontas released on August 7, 2015. In 1995 the music won
Academy Awards® for Best Song ("Colors of the "Wind")
and Best Score (Alan Menken) in
addition to a Grammy® for "Colors of the Wind"
(Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz) for Best Song Written
Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television.
The Pocahontas collection features the songs and score
from the film on Disc One. Disc Two includes the end credit tracks
"Colors of the Wind" performed by Vanessa
Williams and "If I Never Knew You" performed by Jon Secada and Shanice, plus songs and score cut
from the film including Mel Gibson
and Judy Kuhn's version of "If I
Never Knew You," plus 3 demos. Also included are liner notes by
Dave Bossert (Producer/Creative
Director, Walt Disney Animation Studios), plus original concept art
and a 20-page collectible booklet.
The Legacy Collection The Aristocats – The last
film project approved by Walt Disney
before his death in 1966, "The Aristocats" features the voices of
Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Phil
Harris, Dean Clark,
Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers,
and Roddy Maude-Roxby. The 20th animated feature was originally
released to theaters by Buena Vista Distribution on December 11, 1970.
Disc One features the songs and score from the film including
the title song written by Robert and
Richard Sherman and performed by Maurice Chevalier, plus score composed by
George Bruns. Disc One liner notes
were written by two-time GRAMMY® nominee Greg Ehrbar, co-author of Mouse Tracks: The
Story of Walt Disney Records
with Tim Hollis. Disc Two features
The Lost Chords of The Aristocats (4 demos and 4 newly
recorded and fully orchestrated versions of those demos), 5 bonus
tracks, plus liner notes by author Russell
Schroeder and Producer's Note by Randy Thornton.
The Legacy Collection Disneyland explores the rich
past behind songs and attractions past and present. Beginning with
the recordings from the opening day of Disneyland in 1955, the
collection guides the listener down Main Street U.S.A., through the greatest attractions,
shows and lands that exist today and those that are a happy
memory.
Discs One and Two cover the lands beginning with Main Street
U.S.A., Adventureland,
Frontierland, New Orleans Square, Critter Country, Fantasyland,
Mickey's Toontown and Tomorrowland, plus 5 songs from Disney
California Adventure Park. Disc Three features an additional 12
songs from Disney California Adventure Park, plus music from "The
Main Street Electrical Parade" and "Fantasmic!"
The liner notes provide extensive historical background by
writer Stacia Martin, a 37-year
veteran of the Walt Disney Company and Disney Historian, who
oversees special projects for many divisions of the company
including Walt Disney World, Walt
Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney
Records.
Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection series is
available at Disney Music Emporium: disneymusicemporium.com. For
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Publicity Contact:
Maria Kleinman – Walt Disney Records/Disney Music Group
maria.kleinman@disney.com
818.560.5867
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