Trivia / Disney Sing-Along Songs

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Happened to two songs in Fun with Music.
  • The video erroneously credited "Old MacDonald Had a Band" to Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom instead of Jack and Old Mac. Most likely, it was referring to the Walt Disney Presents episode of the same name, which is where the intro to the song comes from ("Old MacDonald had a pianoooooo.... Yeah! Old MacDonald had a wife.")
    • This gets corrected on the Laserdisc and international versions, but still uses the Walt Disney Presents version of the song complete with Professor Owl's linking part despite this.
  • Eva Gabor was given the voice credit for "Scales and Arpeggios" instead of Robie Lester; Gabor provided Duchess' talking voice in The Aristocats while Lester provided her singing voice.
• Follow the Leader: While this series didn't originate the concept of Follow the Bouncing Ball, it popularized the idea of sing-along song collections from other entertainment companies following its success, very much in a similar format. Nearly every company releasing shows on VHS in the late 80s and throughout the 90s had at least one of their own takes on sing-along compilations. Sometimes, they re-released movies or episodes of shows with nothing more than just throwing the lyrics on screen whenever a song came up. To name a few examples, Animaniacs had two sing-along tapes, VeggieTales released quite a few sing-along compilations of their own, and the Dr. Seuss TV specials had sing-along re-releases (The Cat in the Hat in particular received this treatment on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray). Properties that went so far as to have sing-along videos released through either Disney or Buena Vista include The Muppets and The Alvin Show. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment even released some sing-along tapes — including one hosted by the title character of the Disneyesque Anastasia, and one consisting entirely of numbers performed by Shirley Temple.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Disney's efforts to re-release Sing-Along videos from the '80s and '90s on DVD proved short-lived: Only nine volumes and two Mickey's Fun Songs videos reached the newer format. The other Sing-Along programs from the era, including the first two volumes, remain out of print. Some other DVDs do contain Sing-Along excerpts as extras, but later DVD/Blu-Ray reissues of some of those movies replaced them with sing-alongs sourced from the latest remasters.
• Milestone Celebration: Some volumes were released to promote anniversaries of Disney works.
  • Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (1986) was released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Song of the South and to promote its re-release in theaters that same year. This would be the last time American audiences would legally get to see said film as it has never been released on home entertainment or streaming.
  • Heigh-Ho (1987) was released to mark the 50th anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • The Bare Necessities (also 1987) was released to promote the 20th anniversary of The Jungle Book.
  • You Can Fly! (1988) was released to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Peter Pan.
  • Disneyland Fun (1990) was released on VHS to promote Disneyland's 35th anniversary, and on DVD to promote Disneyland's 50th (in 2005).
  • Campout at Walt Disney World (1994), Beach Party at Walt Disney World (1995), and Flik's Musical Adventure (1998) also came to DVD in 2005, under the logic that Disneyland's 50th anniversary marked the 50th anniversary of Disney Theme Parks as a whole.
• No Export for You:
  • As most of the films and shows featured in the series were not fully dubbed at the time in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, only some of the line-up were sold there from 1993 to 1996.
  • The Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland and Israel did not dub the series either for similar reasons.
  • The 1998-2006 line-up was never sold outside North America. However, Honor to Us All had an VHS release in Singapore despite this.
  • Despite having the involvement the regular Disney Sing-Along Songs crew at the time, From Hercules was released everywhere but North America, despite the other Renaissance-era Disney films' Sing Along volumes being released there.
• The Other Darrin: Flik is voiced by Wally Wingert instead of Dave Foley in Flik's Musical Adventure.
  • This also extends to Professor Owl and his students as well for the videos that have them (if Professor Owl is featured properly (hosting or only introducing either Jiminy Cricket and Professor Ludwig Von Drake) or only featured in the opening theme), which was understandable due to most of the cast for the Adventures in Music Duology either having passed away (such as Bill Thompson) or were too old to reprise their roles. So Corey Burton took over voicing Professor Owl here while Harry Arends voices Bertie Birdbrain.
• Remade for the Export: In the European releases of the series, Disneyland Fun was replaced with Let's Go to Disneyland Paris, which redoes all the visuals with new ones done in the European park and replaces a few songs ("The Great Outdoors" and "Makin' Memories" are replaced with "How D'Ye Do and Shake Hands", "A Very Merry Unbirthday" and "Pecos Bill"). This would be the version chosen for Japan to release as well.
• Role Reprise:
  • I Love to Laugh includes a new audio recording of the full "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" song (with an obviously synthesized instrumental backing) set to footage from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, with Paul Winchell reprising the role of Tigger. During this time, Jim Cummings had taken over voicing Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and Winchell was typically reserved for special projects until he got too old to do the voice in 2000.
  • "Disneyland Fun" and "Let's Go to Disneyland Paris" include a new audio recording of "Grim Grinnin' Ghosts," slower and eerier than the version sung in The Haunted Mansion, yet once again sung by Thurl Ravenscroft, who sang the lead vocals in the original ride.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: The derogatory connotations seen in "The Siamese Cat Song" and "He's a Tramp" certainly couldn't have helped, but the official reason for their removal from Heigh Ho and You Can Fly! for the 1994 reissues (and the latter's 2006 DVD) is because Disney had lost a performance rights lawsuit filed by Peggy Lee over the original videocassette release of Lady and the Tramp.
• Uncredited Role: For both Disneyland Fun and Let's Go to Disneyland Paris, none of the voice cast were credited, which becomes odd since Professor Owl had no walkaround costume. As such, both are the only entries where Professor Owl serves as sole host where his voice actor Corey Burton receives no credit for voicing him.
• Technology Marches On: In the song "Dear Santa" from The Twelve Days of Christmas, Huey, Dewey and Louie type their Christmas wish list on a boxy computer.
• What Could Have Been: A volume based on Chicken Little was slated to be released at one point (it could be seen in the "Coming Soon" section of the Disney Sing Along Songs website) but was scrapped for reasons unknown.
  • The working title for Flik's Musical Adventure was "Animal Safari" and had different cover art with no A Bug's Life references. A picture of this could be seen on a Sing Along Songs promo seen on other Disney VHS tapes. Funny enough, one tape released AFTER Flik's Musical Adventure keeps this box art in the promo! It's likely it was meant to originally be a general Animal Kingdom-themed Sing Along, but the A Bug's Life theme was added late in production after that movie's success.

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