| Halloween Songs & Sounds - Walt Disney |  | Label: Walt Disney
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 380392
Media: Audio CD
UPC: 050086010028
EAN: 0050086010028
ASIN: B0009DVNF4
Publication Date: 1997
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Product Description
Track List 1. Heffalumps and Woozles 2. Which Witch is Which? Featuring Mickey and Goofy 3. They Don't Scare Me Featuring Mickey 4. The Werewolf Song 5. Shake Your Bones 6. I Wanna Scare Myself Tracks 7-12: Frightening situations (six spooky scenes in sound) 7. Night Creatures 8. Haunted House 9. The Dungeon 10. The Witches 11. Encounter in the Fog 12. Mad Scientist's Laboratory
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Who is the target audience for this disc? September 20, 2005
David Kenner (Fort Worth, Texas United States)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
The Winnie The Pooh characters on the cover of this Disney CD would indicate that it's for small children. And the first half of the disc obviously is. It's starts off with a great tune from the Winnie The Pooh cartoons, "Heffalumps and Woozles". (This was before Disney made the Heffalump into one of Pooh's friends.) It's a really good song about being scared by things that go bump in the night. Alas, it's a recent rerecording and not from the original soundtrack but it's still pretty good. The rest of the songs are for very small children and probably can't be appreciated by adults.
So the disc is definitely not for adults right? Well, the second half of the disc contains most of side one of Disney's 1979 LP "New Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House". This was the long awaited follow-up to their campy 1964 LP of scary sound effects. In many ways, it was a better album because the scary scenes were more realistic. Let's face it -- a woman being stalked by a man with knives is a little more scary than an "expert woodsman" accidentally sawing off the limb on which he's sitting and falling out of a tree. If you remember the original "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds" album, you know what I'm talking about. So what's my point? Well, these sound effects are too scary for the children who the first half of this disc will appeal to. So you have a disc that's half for children and half for teens or adults.
Getting back to the sound effects, 6 of the 7 tracks from the 1979 "Chilling, Thrilling" album are included. There are a couple of edits. The scream/train whistle at the end of "Encounter In The Fog" is missing as is the last 30 seconds of crickets and wolf howls at the end of "The Mad Scientist's Laboratory". If Disney edited the scream in "Encounter" because they thought it was too extreme for small children, then why did they leave in "The Dungeon" which is downright disturbing? The track that's missing completely is "A Grave Matter" about the grave robbers. I don't know why they chose to leave it out. But these sound effects are first rate and much better than you will find on most Halloween CDs these days. It makes you wonder why Disney doesn't have the common sense to put both "Chilling, Thrilling" LPs together on one CD. There are a lot of folks who would love to have these complete albums on compact disc.
And if Disney is willing to put out a Halloween themed song compilation, I really wish they would go back into their vaults and pull out the songs from "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow". There are tracks from "The Scarecrow Of Oz" and "The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh" that would be right at home on a Halloween comp too. And don't forget "Trick Or Treat" or Annette's "That Crazy Place In Outer Space". I'm sure the list could go on and on but like most songs that appeared on Disney records in the 1960s (particulary the "Little Gem" 45s) the master tapes continue to waste away in Disney's vaults.
Mixed Bag of Tricks and Treats. September 8, 2006
tvtv3 (Sorento, IL United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This Halloween CD is a mixed-bag. The first six songs on the album are Halloween-themed songs sung by Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and other Disney characters. None of these songs are really scary, but they do talk about things that could scare very young listeners, e.g. witches, werewolves, skeletons, etc. The second half of the CD includes six tracks of spooky situations in sound, e.g. night creatures, haunted house, encounter in the fog, etc. Some of the sound tracks are quite spooky and can be used for background music for a Halloween party. However, children will probably not enjoy listening to these tracks. Overall, HALLOWEEN SONGS AND SOUNDS is a mixed album of songs from Disney that includes both kiddy-oriented Halloween tunes and very spooky Halloween sound effects.
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