Line #644 WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"You'll find out, before you're done,\
3	music's fun for everyone!"'']]
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5	->''"Is everybody ready?"''\
6	''"To sing along!"''\
7	''"With Disney songs!"''\
8	''"A Disney Sing-Along!"''
9	-->--'''Professor Owl and his students''', the first lines of the original theme song
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11	''Disney's Sing-Along Songs'' is a Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo series consisting of compilation clips from various Disney movies, shorts and TV shows. The series launched in 1986, and became one of Disney's most successful and long-running video series, the last volume appearing in 2006.
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13	The series, as the name implies, centers around songs being played for the viewer and the viewer invited to sing along. The original set of videos usually featured one of three interchangeable hosts- Jiminy Cricket, the intrepid guide from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', Ludwig von Drake, a rather ditzy inventor whose previous credit was hosting ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Walt Disney's Wonderful World in Color]]'', and ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology'' star Professor Owl, whose reasoning for showing the songs was usually teaching his class of young owls about the songs. As the series progressed, they would be dropped and often Mickey and Minnie were used in their stead.
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15	!!This video series contains examples of:
16	* AdaptationExpansion:
17	** "Little Wooden Head" from ''Pinocchio'' gets a bridge, a second verse, and a slightly expanded first verse repetition over what was purely instrumental music in the film.
18	** ''I Love To Laugh'' had a variant with "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers"; in the [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh]] featurettes, Tigger only sings the first verse of the song, while here a new recording of Creator/PaulWinchell singing the entire song, including the second verse and bridge, is featured, set to footage from the featurettes.
19	* TheArtifact: Professor Owl and his students turned into this pretty quickly. It took all of three installments for Professor Owl to start delegating his hosting duties to a character for whom there is more available StockFootage. At a certain point, they gave up on Professor Owl appearing even long enough to introduce the real host. And yet, the Professor Owl opening sequence is maintained for the overwhelming majority of the series.
20	* AudienceSurrogate: During the intro, Bertie Birdbrain is this for anyone who doesn't know ''all'' the songs, prompting Professor Owl's promise to "make sure they can't go wrong".
21	* BerserkButton: As with his appearance in ''Melody'', Professor Owl hates being interrupted during his lectures and finds himself forcing Panchito to stop singing "The Three Caballeros" for longer than he was supposed to in ''Heigh-Ho''.
22	-->'''Professor Owl''': '''''[[BigShutUp QUIET!!!!!]]'''''
23	* BigShutUp: Professor Owl in ''Heigh-Ho'' when Panchito presses his BerserkButton.
24	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Happens to some of the featured songs.
25	** In "[[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective The World's Greatest Criminal Mind]]" from ''Be Our Guest'', an entire segment where Bartholomew gets punished for calling Professor Ratigan a rat is removed (likely as much because it was originally a very long segment where there was hardly any singing as because of its MoodWhiplash for the darker), as is a portion earlier on mentioning the drowning of widows and orphans [[EvilIsCool and praising Ratigan for it]] and another portion featuring a harp solo from Ratigan.
26	** [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney "Topsy Turvy"]], from the video of the same name, cuts out Esmeralda's dance and rewrites the lyrics so that Clopin wouldn't mention religious concepts (as well as beer).
27	** "Out There" completely skips right to Quasi's "I Want" portion of the song, removing Frollo's warning verse at the beginning completely.
28	** In ''Flik's Musical Adventure'', the lyrics to ''Walk The Dinosaur'' are edited heavily to be more family-friendly. For example: "I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go" becomes "The dinosaurs could dance, and they were putting on a show".
29	** ''Disneyland Fun'' and ''Pongo and Perdita'' altered "Following the Leader", changing "We're out to fight the Injuns" to "We won't be home `til morning". Oddly, the original line was restored when it was featured on a later volume, ''On My Way''.
30	* ChristmasEpisode: ''Very Merry Christmas Songs'' which has classic Christmas songs set to StockFootage of Disney cartoons (except "Here Comes Santa Claus" which is set to live-action footage of a Christmas parade at Disneyland). Also, ''The Twelve Days of Christmas'' which has original songs sung by Disney characters.
31	* DunceCap: Bertie Birdbrain wears one.
32	* FollowTheBouncingBall: A major interactive part of this series. It even features in its theme song! The majority of the songs use the "text changing color" form instead of an actual bouncing ball, including most versions of the theme song (which retains the mention). Usually the bouncing ball is a Mickey head, but occasionally other things are used (e.g. "The Little Black Rain Cloud" from ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' uses a bouncing Pooh on a blue ball, "Kiss The Girl" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' uses a bouncing clam.)
33	-->''Sing along, one and all''\
34	''Follow the bouncing ball''
35	* MontageEndsTheVHS: Starting with the original release of ''The Bare Necessities'' in 1987, a promo covering other volumes was a regular feature of the series. A more traditional montage hosted by Ludwig Von Drake appeared starting on ''Be Our Guest''. Starting with ''Topsy Turvy'', the tapes no longer ended with a montage (this one instead has a preview for the other videos, narrated by Mark Elliot instead of Ludwig Von Drake, appear ''before'' the main program).
36	* MoodWhiplash:
37	** Near the end of ''Colors of the Wind'', it can be pretty jarring to go from the whimsical nonsense of "Higitus Figitus" straight into lines like "You think I'm an ignorant savage" from the title song. The intro by Ludwig Von Drake (which involves him throwing his guitar at offscreen stagehands and freaking out over a diffraction, mistaking it for rain) doesn't help to smooth things over.
38	** There's also the heartwrenching ''Someone's Waiting For You'' immediately before a reprise of ''Under the Sea'' on the VHS of the same name.
39	* OddballInTheSeries: ''Pongo and Perdita'' (1996) had no words to the songs displayed on screen. Strangely, the video is closed-captioned.
40	* PaintingTheMedium: The onscreen lyrics do this sometimes. For example, TheBackwardsR pops up during the Russian puppet's verse of "I've Got No Strings" in ''You Can Fly''.
41	* PanAndScan: The videos cropped every clip from a movie or short animated or filmed in widescreen. Unfortunately, this practice continued even after 16:9 [=TVs=] became the norm.
42	* {{Recut}}: This too has happened to the videos from time to time, with "Yo-Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" and "The Siamese Cat Song" from ''Heigh-Ho'', "He's a Tramp" from ''You Can Fly'', and "Little Wooden Head" from ''Be Our Guest'' getting cut from most later reissues of the same volumes. [[note]] This also happens in the foreign releases of''Colors of the Wind'' as "The Work Song" and "Why Should I Worry" were both replaced with Casey Jr. and Oo-De-Laly.
43	* RhymesOnADime: Sometimes, Professor Owl or Jiminy Cricket will do this during their host segments[[/note]].
44	* RunningGag: Sometimes in the early videos, Professor Owl will respond to a correct response to his queries from his students by smacking Bertie Birdbrain right on the dunce cap as he exclaimed, "Rrright!"
45	* StockFootage:
46	** The theme song and host segments with Professor Owl come from the two ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology Adventures in Music]]'' shorts, ''Melody'' and ''Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom'', as well as new animation from the [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Disney anthology]] episode carrying the latter's title. The theme song for the revival's videos instead use footage from a random assortment of Disney movies.
47	** Jiminy Cricket cutscenes used clips from either the [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Disney anthology series]] or from educational shorts created for ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub''. In addition, the introduction to "Figaro and Cleo" from ''The Bare Necessities'' used a clip from ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree''.
48	** Ludwig von Drake cutscenes used clips from the [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Disney anthology series]], as well as ''WesternAnimation/ASymposiumOnPopularSongs''.
49	** The songs themselves have even more examples, listed on the videos' Recap pages.
50	* TitleSequenceReplacement: When Disney updated the logo in 1994, they also attached it to re-releases of older volumes.
51	* VariationsOnAThemeSong: ''Friend Like Me'', ''Circle of Life'', ''Honor To Us All'', and the Collection of All-Time Favorites use a remixed theme song that doesn't appear on any other tapes from the original series save for a reissue of ''Heigh-Ho''.
52	** This also happens in ''From Hercules'' (released only internationally) which also used the remixed theme song.
53	* VocalEvolution: Professor Owl's voice noticeably changed during the twelve years despite Creator/CoreyBurton remaining consistent as the character's voice actor. It becomes much closer to his original voice provided by Bill Thompson in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology'', and less high and nasal than it was in the early Sing-Along videos. This becomes jarring in the Collection of All-Time Favorites miniseries where Professor Owl served as the off-screen narrator, with his voice sounding noticeably different compared to how he sounded in the opening theme.
54	* AWildRapperAppears: The version of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" recorded for ''Disneyland Fun'' features a rap verse about Ride/SplashMountain. This verse was originally from a Disneyland promo, highlighting the ride.[[note]]This rap does not show up in ''Let's Go to Disneyland Paris''[[/note]]:
55	-->Well, you know it is a thrill when you go down hill\
56	'Cause [[RougeAnglesOfSatin your]] riding on a mountain of your own free will\
57	And you're zippin' in a flash on a daring dash\
58	Down a waterfall so rapid that you go splish splash\
59	ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP\
60	ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP\
61	ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP DO DAH\
62	ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP ZIP DO DAH DAY
63	* WithLyrics: ''Under the Sea'' features "Never Smile at a Crocodile" from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' with the unused lyrics included (as in the finished film [[CutSong it was only heard in instrumental form]]).

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