Disney - Babes in Toyland (1961) Vinyl LP • Annette Funicello, Soundtrack

Catalog Number: 3913

Record Grading: Very Good (VG), Sleeve Grading: Very Good (VG)

Condition Details:

11-page book attached to inner-gate. Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Gate-fold cover has a lot of creases near edges; scuffing, surface impressions, and discoloration spots (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is somewhat readable with wear. Some shelf-wear along top-edge, much heavier across bottom-edge and corners. Unipak Opening is crisp with signs of light use. Purple label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Mother Goose Village And Lemonade
• We Won't Be Happy Till We Get It
• Just A Whisper Away
• Slowly He Sank To The Bottom Of The Sea
• Castle In Spain
• Never Mind Bo-Peep
• I Can't Do The Sum
• Floretta
• Forest Of No Return
• Go To Sleep
• Toyland
• Workshop Song
• Just A Toy
• March Of The Toys
• Tom And Mary (Finale)

About The Record:

Story and Songs from Babes in Toyland, by Disney, is a Technicolor Christmas musical film directed by Jack Donohue and distributed to theatres by Buena Vista Distribution. It stars Ray Bolger as Barnaby, Tommy Sands as Tom Piper, Annette Funicello as Mary Contrary and Ed Wynn as the Toymaker. The film is based upon Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland. There had been a 1934 film also titled Babes in Toyland starring Laurel and Hardy, and three television adaptations prior to the Disney film, but Disney's was only the second film version of the operetta released to movie theatres and the first in Technicolor. The plot, and in some cases the music, bear little resemblance to the original, as Disney had most of the lyrics rewritten and some of the song tempos drastically changed, including the memorable song Toyland, a slow ballad, which was sped up with only the chorus sung in a march-like rhythm. The toy soldiers later appeared in Christmas parades at the Disney theme parks around the world. Funicello said it was her favorite filmmaking experience.