Disney – A Recorded History

About Disney – A Recorded History

In Disney – A Recorded History, Grammy Award – Winning Producer and Disney Music Historian, Randy Thornton, takes you on an illuminating journey through Disney music milestones such as Steamboat Willie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Mary Poppins. This limited podcast series features rare and never-before-released recordings from the people who lived it – animators Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and Ollie Johnston; musicians Henry Mancini, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, and above all, Walt Disney himself!

Publisher

Disney Music Group, Randy Thornton

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 May 2024

Latest episode

15 Aug 2024

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Aug 2024

   Ep. 12: Well Begun Is Half Done Pt. 3

   Recorded in 1989, Richard and Robert Sherman reminisce about their work on Mary Poppins.

2. 

   8 Aug 2024

   Ep. 11: Well Begun Is Half Done Pt. 2

   Excerpts from the Mary Poppins story meeting with P.L. Travers, Don DiGradi, and The Sherman Brothers as they discuss various scenes and songs from the first concept of the script. Also included is P.L. Travers hearing the Shermans’ “Feed the Birds” for the first time.

3. 

   1 Aug 2024

   Ep. 10: Well Begun Is Half Done Pt. 1

   The listener is a fly-on-the-wall in the first Mary Poppins story meeting with P.L. Travers, Don DiGradi, and The Sherman Brothers – exactly as it happened in 1961.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

33 ratings