This Holiday Season, Make New Disney Memories with Old School Vinyl Records
November 26, 2020

We are living in the heyday of the vinyl revival. This year, for the first time in more than three decades, vinyl sales surpassed CD sales—which was just the latest proof that music lovers have gone back in droves to the nostalgic ritual of lowering a tiny needle on a spinning turntable and hearing the […]

The Right Music Can Turn Any Home Into a Haunted House
October 28, 2020

There’s just something fun about being scared. Walt Disney understood that intrinsically, and from the very beginning—with The Skeleton Dance chapter of Silly Symphony in 1929, or the creepy forest scene in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937—Disney has created a wealth of thrilling, delightful fear that keeps us coming back for more. […]

The Disney Animation Renaissance was powered by music
September 15, 2020

The era we call the “renaissance” at Walt Disney Animation was, as the name suggests, an artistic revival and rebirth that “woke up” Sleeping Beauty and produced a bumper crop of animated movie classics. The 1990s yielded one unforgettable hit after another—and it …

Vinyl can be eye candy as well as  ear candy
August 11, 2020

The era we call the “renaissance” at Walt Disney Animation was, as the name suggests, an artistic revival and rebirth that “woke up” Sleeping Beauty and produced a bumper crop of animated movie classics. The 1990s yielded one unforgettable hit after another—and it …