Haunted Mansion Soundtrack
There were several versions of the Disney Haunted Mansion Soundtrack. I owned, for years the 1974 LP Trick or Treat—The Stories of Halloween (Out of print; Disneyland Records DQ-1358). I would probably still have it, but my mom the 6th grade teacher, always took it to her class to listen to on Halloween or the friday before. One year it never came back. The whole of side two is an abbreviated version of the recording made for the soundtrack album. Side one is the unrelated (but famous) Donald Duck story"Trick or Treat," featuring Witch Hazel and Donald's nephews. I grew to know this by heart as I would fall asleep listening to it.
Version that I had in the 70's
Fast forward to sometime around 2002 when I found a cassette version at Toys R Us. My son loved this recording as much as I did so it did not last long. I did find some various versions of the audio at doombuggies.com. since then I had it in various forms. I could find it on youtube and limewire.
Then last year, for the 40th Anniversary of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Disney released the "The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion "CD. Of course I snapped it right up. The cover and booklet was graphically reconstructed and restored by Sean Tejaratchi from the original illustrations by artist Collin Campbell. The enhanced CD also includes a Digital Image Gallery (which can be accessed by inserting the CD into a computer) of high quality images from Campbell’s original paintings for the album.
Anyspookyhouse, it you want to hear more audio or learn more about Narration and Music from the Haunted Mansions head on over to the audio library at doombuggies.com.
They always have room for one more.....
We used to play the Haunted Mansion album for the trick or treaters to hear every year when I was a kid. Now we don't even get trick or treaters.
ReplyDeleteWe have not in the 3 years we have been here. We are going to my sil's for Halloween this year so ...meh,
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