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Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition. Disc One includes the original songs and score from the film. This is the definitive Robin Hood collection targeted to die-hard Disney music fans and uber collectors.
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Product Identifiers
Record LabelDsn, Walt Disney Records
UPC0050087360399
eBay Product ID (ePID)9046059859
Product Key Features
Release Year2017
FormatCD
GenreChildren's Video
ArtistWalt Disney Records Legacy Collection: Robin Hood
Release TitleRobin Hood: Walt Disney Records the Legacy Collection
Dimensions
Item Height0.44 in
Item Weight0.31 lb
Item Length6.18 in
Item Width5.04 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs2
Number of Tracks20
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Main Title 1.2 Whistle Stop 1.3 Oo-De-Lally 1.4 Hail John 1.5 It's Only a Circus 1.6 Fortune Tellers 1.7 Enter the Sheriff 1.8 Skippy's Birthday Gift 1.9 A Lost Arrow 1.10 Meeting Maid Marian 1.11 To the Winner 1.12 The Archery Affair 1.13 Fooling Ol' Bushel Britches 1.14 Archer's Processional 1.15 Sir Hiss Suspects 1.16 Well, Well 1.17 The Loser 1.18 Seize the Fat One 1.19 Fight on Wisconsin 1.20 There You Are
NotesDigitally remastered and expanded two CD edition. This set features 41 tracks and contains over one hour and 30 minutes of content. Disc One includes the original songs and score from the film. Disc Two includes bonus material like previously unreleased demos and bonus tracks. This is the definitive Robin Hood collection targeted to die-hard Disney music fans and uber collectors. Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions first released on November 8, 1973. It is the 21st Disney animated feature film, it is based on the legend of Robin Hood, but uses anthropomorphic animals rather than people. The story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John, and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian. Music by George Bruns. The song "Love" was nominated for Best Original Song at the 46th Academy Awards.
Great nostagia, Disney fun and old style orchestrations from the best.
Composer George Bruns knew his stuff when it came to scoring animated features—even ones with a wildly-shifting and inconsistent tone as Disney’s Robin Hood. Hearing it without seeing the 1973 film will be a strange outing in Medieval pomp with dashes of Country and Western. After the great Oliver Wallace, Bruns was Disney’s go-to composer. If Jungle Book and Sword in the Stone struck viewers and listeners as jazzy, Bruns lets go of former restraints in action scenes and breaks out modern instrumentation in Middle Ages England in an effort to stay hip—maybe at the expense of atmosphere.
When the electric guitar and bass, complete with wah-wah pedal kick in, we are in a place only Disney could engineer and get away with it to the degree they could.
This would be Bruns’ last, and subsequent outings such as “Rescuers” and “Fox and the Hound” were scored by composers less adept with the old-fashioned approach to scoring a Disney feature and the results were thin and formed no strong memories.
Adept with the trombone himself, Bruns knows what a brass section can do and puts it to comic and dramatic effect. His theme for Prince John ranks as one of the best marches in film, but it seldom gets play on Disney music collections, in theme parks or anywhere else for some strange reason—With assistance from woodwinds and sawing strings, it was one of the music cues I waited many decades to have on a compact disc and it doesn’t disappoint. The theme turns up repeatedly in the selection of cues and differs slightly enough each time not to sound identical and dull.
Points to Bruns and the recording team for knowing where to position the microphones—getting some proper acoustics works wonders with film music.
Many of his sentimental cues sound indistinguishable from cues he used in “Sword in the Stone”, “Jungle Book” and “Aristocats”. Traces of those earlier scores will jog the memory of a dedicated Disney fan and prove distracting. The recordings are clean and clear and were a terrific find. Too much classic Disney music is never heard on its own.
Disc 2 in the set is largely a waste, except for the initial track, a piano ragtime version of Whistle Stop. In the planning stages for the 1973 release, trumpeter and singer Louis Prima came up with many numbers in his style, getting into the groove of “King Louie”, the way out ape he had played in Jungle Book. Things changed during the planning phases and when Prima was not given a role in the film, he grew angry and sold his contributions back to the studio, giving us the bulk of the second disc. We get to hear demos of the songs that made it into the movie and an odd bit of singing from Peter Ustinov.