A new limited series podcast, Disney – A Recorded History has launched. The series will feature a total of 12 episodes, with the first few available to listen to now.
This limited series podcast is a collection of rare and never-before-released recordings showcasing significant points in Disney Film and Music History. Listeners will hear directly from the people who lived it, such as Animators Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and Ollie Johnston in addition to Musicians Henry Mancini, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B Sherman, and most predominately Walt Disney himself.
Hosted by Walt Disney Records’ Grammy Award winning Producer and Disney Music Historian Randy Thornton, Disney – A Recorded History takes its audience through recording the soundtrack to the first cartoon with synchronized sound (Steamboat Willie), the first Disney Hit Song (“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf”), preparing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, World War II, Bambi, and Mary Poppins. All in celebration of the Disney 100th and Mary Poppins’ upcoming 60th.
New episodes in Disney – A Recorded History will be available from June through August, with more details to be revealed.
On October 16, 1923, Walt Disney was a fledgling filmmaker in LA when he signed a distribution deal for a series of live-action/animated comedy shorts about a girl in a cartoon world based on Alice in Wonderland, and the company was born. Originally called Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt and sibling Roy Disney soon changed it to what we all know: the Walt Disney Studio.
The Walt Disney Company commemorated its 100th anniversary on Monday, October 16, 2023. During its centennial celebration, Disney will be presenting special activations, tie-ins, and moments that will highlight what has made this company so special to so many over the last 100 years. The Disney100 celebrations began in October last year, but as Walt Disney once said, “We are just getting started.”
Listen to each new episode of Disney – A Recorded History on Apple Music and Spotify.