![]() A more traditional montage hosted by Ludwig Von Drake appeared starting on Be Our Guest. Montage Ends the VHS: Starting with the original release of The Bare Necessities in 1987, a promo covering other volumes was a regular feature of the series.It even features in its theme song! The majority of the songs use the "text changing color" form instead of an actual bouncing ball, including most versions of the theme song (which retains the mention). Follow the Bouncing Ball: A major interactive part of this series.Christmas Episode: Very Merry Christmas Songs, a typical Stock Footage montage which happens to be set to classic Christmas songs (with precisely one song, "Here Comes Santa Claus", being set to live-action footage), and The Twelve Days of Christmas, which has original songs and a style that wouldn't feel out of place in Disneyland Fun. ![]() Oddly, the original line was restored when it was featured on a later volume, On My Way. Later releases of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah altered "Following the Leader", changing "We're out to fight the Injuns" to "We won't be home `til morning".For example: "I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go" becomes "The Dinosaurs Could dance, and they were putting on a show" In Flik's Musical Adventure, the lyrics to Walk The Dinosaur are edited heavily to be more family-friendly."Out There" completely skips right to Quasi's "I Want" portion of the song, removing Frollo's warning verse at the beginning completely."Topsy Turvy", from the video of the same name, cuts out Esmeralda's dance and rewrites the lyrics so that Clopin wouldn't mention religious concepts (as well as beer). ![]() In "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" from Be Our Guest, an entire segment where Bartholomew gets punished for calling Professor Ratigan a rat is removed (likely as much because it was originally a very long segment where there was hardly any singing as because of its Mood Whiplash for the darker), as is a portion earlier on mentioning the drowning of widows and orphans and praising Ratigan for it and another portion featuring a harp solo from Ratigan.Bowdlerise: Happens to some of the featured songs.Big "SHUT UP!": Professor Owl in Heigh-Ho when Panchito presses his Berserk Button.Berserk Button: As with his appearance in Melody, Professor Owl hates being interrupted during his lectures and finds himself forcing Panchito to stop singing "The Three Caballeros" for longer than he was supposed to in Heigh-Ho.Audience Surrogate: During the intro, Bertie Birdbrain is this for anyone who doesn't know all the songs, prompting Professor Owl's promise to "make sure they can't go wrong".And yet, the Professor Owl opening sequence is maintained for the overwhelming majority of the series. At a certain point, they gave up on Professor Owl appearing even long enough to introduce the real host. It took all of three installments for Professor Owl to start delegating his hosting duties to a character for whom there is more available Stock Footage. The Artifact: Professor Owl and his students turned into this pretty quickly.I Love To Laugh had a variant with "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" in the Winnie the Pooh featurettes, Tigger only sings the first verse of the song, while here a new recording of Paul Winchell singing the entire song, including the second verse and bridge, is featured, set to footage from the featurettes."Little Wooden Head" from Pinocchio gets a bridge, a second verse, and a slightly expanded first verse repetition over what was purely instrumental music in the film.As the series progressed, they would be dropped and often Mickey and Minnie were used in their stead. ![]() The original set of videos usually featured one of three interchangeable hosts- Jiminy Cricket, the intrepid guide from Pinocchio, Ludwig von Drake, a rather ditzy inventor whose previous credit was hosting Walt Disney's Wonderful World in Color, and Adventures in Music Duology star Professor Owl, whose reasoning for showing the songs was usually teaching his class of young owls about the songs. The series, as the name implies, centers around songs being played for the viewer and the viewer invited to sing along. The series launched in 1986, and became one of Disney's most successful and long-running video series, the last volume appearing in 2006. Professor Owl and his students, the first lines of the original theme songÄisney's Sing-Along Songs is a Walt Disney Home Video series consisting of compilation clips from various Disney movies, shorts and TV shows.
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