![]() Throughout the program, lyrics appear for viewers to sing along with the songs, though as is true of many of Disney's Sing Along volumes, they puzzlingly disappear at certain times. ![]() The Professor then turns the show over to Ludwig Von Drake, the egomaniacal early-'60s creation who serves as host, introducing each song from a variety of locations and then narrating the old school post-credits promotional push which encourages you to discover the other first three volumes of the line. Like the other Sing Along volumes from this era, You Can Fly! opens with a toe-tapping introduction which features Professor Owl and his pupils from a pair of early '50s musically-themed shorts. There otherwise seems to be no real rhyme or reason to the lineup, besides the obvious reality that they all originate from completely or partially-animated Disney films that many people know and love. Toad and the bouncy Dumbo crows' grammatically questionable but melodically sound jazz finale "When I See An Elephant Fly." The fact that that last one contains the word "fly" and that "Little Black Rain Cloud" references honey-driven flight seem to be the only thing tying any of the selections together with the title song, which is reprised as a concluding track. The remaining three numbers are: Pinocchio's internationally flavored puppet show song "I've Got No Strings" "The Merrily Song", the lone diegetic musical element from "The Wind in the Willows" half of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Half of the tunes were penned by Richard and Robert Sherman, Disney's legendary songwriting siblings, but their four contributions ("Colonel Hathi's March" from The Jungle Book, "Little Black Rain Cloud" from Disney's debut Winnie the Pooh short, Mary Poppins' "Step in Time" and "The Beautiful Briny" from its tonal and mixed-medium cousin Bedknobs and Broomsticks) would not likely find their way onto a "Best of the Brothers Sherman" CD unless a second or third volume was produced. By and large, though, they just fall among the middle to lower tiers of the songs from their respective Disney films. The rest are bound to be remembered by the serious Disney fan and are likely at least partially familiar to anyone who was ever a movie-watching kid. "You Can Fly!" is the only song from Peter Pan and it's also the only one of the eight selections that can be readily given "classic" status. ![]() Just over three months ago, four park-themed volumes made a fairly low-key DVD debut and now four movie song compilations are doing the same.ĭespite what the front cover art and extended title would have you believe, Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly! - Peter Pan is not the next best thing to tracking down an out of print Special Edition or Limited Issue disc of the 1953 animated classic. Apparently, Disney feels that now is the time to revisit these dated Sing Alongs from the past two decades. Eighteen years after debuting on VHS, this last pair is resurfacing for its first appearance on DVD, where new entries to the Sing Along Songs canon are now Two others soon followed - The Bare Necessities and You Can Fly - with song names and cover imagery taken from two of the more popular Walt-era animated classics, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan. animated/live action hybrid Song of the South, came second. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, taking its title from the never-released-to-video-in-the-U.S. Appropriately enough, the series was launched with a volume titled Heigh-Ho and inspired by Walt Disney's first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. And so, the Sing Along Songs line was born, providing half-hour compilations of animated lyrics-accompanied musical numbers from Disney films (and later elsewhere) in places where there previously had been none. ![]() In the late 1980s, having finally begun issuing its animated classics to home video, the Disney studio sought to make new waves in the lucrative VHS market. ![]()
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