I don't see why people are assuming this isn't just the music. This is coming from the Disney Music Emporium, which only releases music soundtracks. And the announcement reads as if it's just music.
Key phrases: "....featuring the complete restored soundtracks from all 75 Silly Symphony shorts from 1929-1939, with more than 8 hours of music over 16 vinyl LPs...."
"Soundtracks of Disney classics such as The Skeleton Dance by Carl Stalling, Three Little Pigs by Frank Churchill, and Donald Duck’s debut The Wise Little Hen by Leigh Harline will be presented in full for the first time ever on record."
"Multi-award-winning producer Randy Thornton has meticulously restored and remastered every note of these priceless musical works, from The Skeleton Dance and The Old Mill to Three Little Pigs and The Night Before Christmas. The sound quality will be unlike that of any and all previous audio or video releases."
To me this reads exactly the same as releases from our beloved soundtrack labels, so why is there an assumption it's the full soundtrack, not just music? What am I missing?
Here is a video on the subject featuring Randy Thornton among others - maybe this will clear it up.
I know very few of these cartoons, but it seems like the soundtrack really is all one - everything is so tightly integrated it seems like the only way to hear it is all together. More like a musical than underscore....
I believe that video has been posted before, but it's a fun watch. Thanks. In it, they discuss the restoration and clarity of what they can achieve now, including for the sound effects on the soundtrack. I'm sure they're still part of it. At 5:03 is an archival photo of the musicians and FX crew recording together.
I don't think its really targeted for the soundtrack aficionado at all, quite frankly, but to those obsessed with all things Disney. It's a great set-idea, but vinyl is just silly at this point.
My first thoughts - WOW! Second are the same as KonstantinosZ - LP only?!
My thoughts, too. I would LOVE to own this set, but only on CD. I've nothing against the resurgence of LPs, per se, but personally I don't want to go in that direction (backwards). One, it's too expensive, and, two, I prefer the size and convenience of CDs. I don't believe this LP resurgence is going to be anything more than a passing fad. I don't believe it will catch on in any significant way, but will end up being what laser discs were to VHS, barely a footnote. So if anyone who makes decisions about these kinds of things ends up reading this, please, PLEASE get this out on CD. Please don't turn music collecting into some kind of elitist thing.
The vinyl resurgence has been going on now for at least a decade and still going strong. I would hardly call that a passing fad.
My first thoughts - WOW! Second are the same as KonstantinosZ - LP only?!
My thoughts, too. I would LOVE to own this set, but only on CD. I've nothing against the resurgence of LPs, per se, but personally I don't want to go in that direction (backwards). One, it's too expensive, and, two, I prefer the size and convenience of CDs. I don't believe this LP resurgence is going to be anything more than a passing fad. I don't believe it will catch on in any significant way, but will end up being what laser discs were to VHS, barely a footnote. So if anyone who makes decisions about these kinds of things ends up reading this, please, PLEASE get this out on CD. Please don't turn music collecting into some kind of elitist thing.
The vinyl resurgence has been going on now for at least a decade and still going strong. I would hardly call that a passing fad.
There's always been a small base of music enthusiasts who couldn't let go of their record players. I bet the increase in sales are simply because there's more product for that same target group. But they will die out.
Maybe a few kids asked Mom and Dad for a record player because its the cool thing right now. But give it another year and it will go unused and end up in a landfill. Younger generation want instant gratification at the tip of their fingers. The future is streaming only and that is where the majority of customers will go.
I really want to get this, as I have loved the SILLY SYMPHONIES for decades, but balk at: A. Vinyl, and B. the Price. (Even though they clearly announce a "digital download" is included with each set.)
However, many of the cartoons were through-sung, as mini-operettas, like THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, THE GODDESS OF SPRING, or THE COOKIE CARNIVAL, sometimes with occasional bits of dialogue thrown in. For a released recording, I'd want the singing, because it's part of the score, but it might not sound complete without those dialogue snippets.
Or, worse, if they eliminated the singing altogether, then the thing would sound like some archival version of Karaoke....
Apart from this, I feel like someone on a strict diet, standing outside the window of a bakery, drooling at all the pastries. (Remember that scene in VICTOR VICTORIA, when a malnourished Julie Andrews is outside the window of a restaurant, watching a corpulent man eating an overstuffed pastry? That's how I feel about this release....)
