Oliver And Company: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

Oliver And Company: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
Customer Review: Only for a diehard collector
Another Disney Soundtrack CD with some star names doing rare songs to draw a collector in. I'm not a fan of Disney music, but I had to have the song by Ruth Pointer being a major Pointer Sisters fan. STREETS OF GOLD is really a pretty good song . Same could be said for the Billy Joel song, and the Huey Lewis song isn't bad. But Bette Midler's is a sickeningly sappy piece of Broadway schtick where Bette lays on the sweetness so heavy it made me get my soundtrack to THE ROSE out as an antidote. It's such schmaltz that made me cringe listening to this awfully bad song. Bette even tries to approxmate sound effects during this song " produced " by Barry Manilow. Fittingly, it's followed by a song sung by a young girl, and at least she's of age for such sweet sappy songs. The fantasy world of Disney music isn't my cup of tea.
Customer Review: Just a Tad Bit Better Than Average.
When Disney was busy reinventing and rebuilding its animation department in the late 1980s, one of the ideas that the studio had was to cast big name musicians and actors as the lead voices in a major animated picture. It had been done before, but not quite on the same scale. Thus Billy Joel, Bette Midler, and Sheryl Lee Ralph found themselves in the same movie with Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan, Dom DeLuise, Robert Loggia, and a young Joey Lawrence. OLIVER & COMPANY was the first full animated Disney musical in over a decade. The film wasn't as successful as the company had hoped, but it brought enough business in to keep the animation department hopeful and became the pre-cursor of the 1990s Disney animation powerhouse that started with THE LITTLE MERMAID in 1989. Like the movie itself, the soundtrack to OLIVER & COUNTRY is an album of hits and misses. It includes the first Disney song written by Howard Ahsman, "Once Upon a Time in New York City", sung by Huey Lewis, and the upbeat ditty that has become a Billy Joel standard, "Why Should I Worry." Bette Midler has a divine voice, but her songs on the album are nothing extraordinary and the instrumental pieces are basically run of the mill. The album is worth owning for "Once Upon a Time in New York City" and "Why Should I Worry". It's also a good album for your collection if you're a huge Disney fan because of OLIVER & COMPANY's place in Disney history. It's the movie that was the interlude between financial recovery and smashing box office success.


Baby Donald Makes A Snowfriend / Bebe Donald hace un amigo de nieve: Baby Donald Makes A Snowfriend/beb Donald Hace (Baby's First Disney Books (Bilingual-Spanish)) (Spanish Edition)
Big news: Baby's First Disney Books are now bilingual! It's easier, and more fun, than ever for the adorable Disney Babies characters to teach your baby about shapes, colors, letters, and other important early-learning concepts.

Filled with fun Disney adventures, the bright, colorful board books are simply irresistible to baby. Each one features short, simple sentences that are repeated in both English and Spanish to help make learning easier. Plus, the sturdy pages with rounded corners help keep your little one safe!

Spanish title: Bebe Donald hace un muneco de nieve

Una gran noticia: ahora los libros de los bebes de Disney son bilingues! Es mas facil y mas divertido que nunca que su bebe aprenda con los adorables bebes de Disney acerca de los colores, las formas, las letras y otros conceptos importantes. Repletos de aventuras divertidas de Disney, estos coloridos libros de carton son irresistibles. Cada uno tiene oraciones simples tanto en ingles como en espanol para que el aprendizaje sea muy facil. Ademas, las paginas de carton y las esquinas redondeadas aseguran que los chicos no se hagan dano!
Customer Review: lovely little starter books for your bilingual baby
I'm one of those people who think that kids should be multi-lingual. I learned Spanish and English together, and I've benefited from that my whole life (except when I was very young, when complete strangers felt justified in smacking little kids for speaking Spanish). Knowing more than one language is helpful even when you just want your child to focus on English. Having an understanding of Spanish helped me with English vocabulary, and I think one of the areas in which today's kids are lacking is in reading skill and vocabulary mastery, so here you go--the perfect little starter books for your bilingual (and hopefully ultimately multi-lingual) child! I bought a slew of these for a co-worker's baby shower, and I was very pleased with them overall. The stories are VERY short, but the Spanish vocab is superb and REAL, not TexMex or slang. The translations are good ones, and I like the art as well.


Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Teamwork: Let's do it together! (Learn & Carry)
Preschoolers can follow along with Mickey and his pals as they discover the value of teamwork. The friends work together to plan a surprise for Mickey, help each other out, cheer one another on and expand vocabulary with an alphabet of friendship. A fun-filled CD with a sing-along song and read-along narration is included in this inspiring collection. Titles include: Counting on Each Other- Together is Better- Meeska, Mooske, Mousekefriendship- Super Cheers for Teamwork!