Gil Goldstein Disney Meets Jazz Tribute to Walt Disney

Sun Ra and his Intergalaxtic Arkestra - Second Star to the Right: Salute to Walt Disney (1989) {Leo Records CDLR230 rel 1995}
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© 1989, 1995 Leo Records | CD LR 230
Jazz / Experimental Big Band / Avant-Garde Jazz / Progressive Jazz

Sun Ra and his Intergalaxtic Arkestra's Second Star to the Right: Salute to Walt Disney goes way beyond novelty. Novelties are hardly this entertaining or enduring. Ra got into a Disney phase around 1989 when asked to interpret "Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo for a pop tribute album to Disney called Stay Awake. Ra was so taken with Disney's music and images that he started to play shows dedicated exclusively to the man. When performing this material, the Arkestra went so far as to wear the patented Mouseketeer ears and had a dancer dressed in a Dumbo costume! The chosen compositions run the gamut from the more obscure to themes every kid of all ages could sing along with: "I'm Wishing," "Second Star to the Right," the eerie "The Forest of no Return," and "Someday My Prince Will Come."

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