2006 marks the 20th anniversary of Disney's Sing Along Songs video series. With the studio deciding on whether to phase out VHS releases, and with many Sing Along titles coming to DVD for the first time, let's take time out to recap the releases so far:
VOL 1
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
(1986)
Host: Professor Owl
The only title in the series to feature the Video Dealer Announcement before the program begins.
VOL 2
Heigh-Ho
(1987)
Host: Professor Owl
Later OTL prints of this one remove the
Pirates of the Caribbean song. Not the case ITTL.
VOL 3
The Bare Necessities
(1987)
Host: Jiminy Cricket
The first to feature a promo of other
Sing Along titles at the end of the program.
With the
Aristocats made later at another studio, Everybody Wants to Be A Cat is butterflied in favor of the Breadcrumb Birds' song from
Hansel and Gretel.
VOL 4
You Can Fly!
(1988)
Host: Ludwig Von Drake
VOL 5
Very Merry Christmas Songs
(1988)
Footage of
The Snow Queen and the Hoth scenes from
The Empire Strikes Back are used for songs referencing snow and ice.
Footage of the gingerbread house from
Hansel and Gretel is used for lyrics referencing Christmas candy.
VOL 6
Fun With Music
(1989)
Host: Ludwig Von Drake
Known in UK and Ireland as
101 Notes of Fun.
Scales and Arpeggios is butterflied. Instead, Brian Eno and David Bowie's pop version of Higitus Figitus from
The Sword in the Stone (1979) is used.
VOL 7
Under the Sea
(1990)
The Disneyland 35th Anniversary promo is used on the earliest prints of this title.
VOL 8
Disneyland Fun
(1990)
Same as the above title.
VOL 9
Let's Make Music Together
(1990)
Known IOTL as
I Love to Laugh and later
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Uses Let's Make Music Together from
All Dogs Go to Heaven in place of Bluddle-Uddle-Um-Dum (Snow White). Oo-de-lally is from
Chanticleer ITTL.
VOL 10
Be Our Guest
(1992)
Song list:
Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast)
Bella Notte (Lady and the Tramp)
Spoonful of Sugar (Mary Poppins)
World's Greatest Criminal Mind (Basil of Baker Street)
Let Down Your Hair (Rapunzel)
You Can't Keep a Good Dog Down (All Dogs Go to Heaven)
Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty)
VOL 11
Friend Like Me
(1993)
Song list:
Friend Like Me (Aladdin)
The Best of Friends (The Fox and the Hound)
Something There (Beauty and the Beast)
How Do You Do (Song of the South; Splash Mountain version)
If We Hold On Together (The Land Before Time)
In Harmony (Little Mermaid TV Series)
Let's Get Together (The Parent Trap; 1961 Version)
That's What Friends Are For (The Jungle Book)
A Whole New World (Aladdin)