September 21, 2008

Disney covers. MP3s. Interesting to compare the multiple interpretations of the popular ones.
posted by Plegmund 16 years ago
  • OK, that site's a lot more fun than I. as an ostensible adult, care to admit. Loved, loved, loved the ragtime Yo Ho/Grim Grinning Ghosts medley (Buddy Baker would have approved). I was at Disneyland a couple of months ago, and I was struck with the irony that "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" was one of the most frequent songs on the loudspeakers (srsly, I heard it like five times in one morning) and yet Song of the South isn't available on DVD and nobody under 18 has ever even heard of it.
  • Song of the South is considered much too racist these days and Disney refuses to release it ever again, supposedly. Which is B.S., in my opinion. I see they have no problem with releasing Peter Pan on DVD. Is the song "What Makes the Red Man Red?" somehow less racist than the happy slaves on the plantation--I mean, if they're gonna go down that road and all . . .
  • Wonderful link, Pleggy.
  • Very nice, indeed.