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Walt DISNEY PETER AND THE WOLF. Narrated by Sterling Holloway.. Disneyland Records DQ-1242 Walt Disney Presents Peter and the Wolf narrated by Sterling Holloway also, Fantasia - The Socerer's Apprentice, narrated by Sterling Holloway with Leopold Stokoski

Walt Disney Presents PETER AND THE WOLF

Narrated by Sterling Holloway Music by Sergei Prokofieff Disneyland Records WDL-3016 (Side One Only / 12 33 rpm / Mono) LP Reissues:WDL-1016 (1960); DQ-1242 (1964); ST-3926 (1964, with Magic Mirror book); ST-3926 (1969, with regular Storyteller book) CD Reissue: DQ-1242 (2004, Wonderland Music Company Music-on-Demand Theme Park Edition). (All of the above are paired with The Sorcerers Apprentice) CD Reissue: D-002066392 (2015, Bonus material on Fantasia Legacy Collection Set) 45 RPM Reissue: #605 (1978) Originally Released April 3, 1958.Executive Producer: Jimmy Johnson. Album Producer: Camarata. Arranger: Edward Plumb. Conductor: Charles Wolcott. (From the 1946 Soundtrack of Make Mine Music. Running Time: 14 minutes.

When Walt Disney told 1957 television viewers that Sergei Prokofieff (or Prokofiev) visited his office and proudly performed his Peter and the Wolf composition, he was not telling tales. The meeting happened in 1938, the piano was the actual article, but the composer had passed before the episode was filmed, so pianist Ingolf Dahl played Prokofieff.

This appeared on The Fourth Anniversary Show for theDisneylandTV series on ABC: Peter and the Wolfwas intended as aFantasiasegment, to be added later had the feature become an ongoing presentation with interchangeable sections. In the context ofFantasia, which had no dialogue in its animated sections, there might have been no narration at allthoughPeter and the Wolfwas written for narrator as well as orchestra. After tighter budgets and the pressures of WWII had affected studio and artistic operations,Peter and the Wolfbecame part of A Fairy Tale in Music for the first of the package films containing multiple animated segments: 1946sMake Mine Music.

The traditional version usually runs between 20-25 minutes, allowing for many sections of musical themes and accents. ForMake Mine Music, Peter and the Wolf was truncated to run under 15 minutes, with a great deal of visual action added out of necessity, this being an animated version, after all. As delightful as Sterling Holloways narration always is, it dominated the fast-paced segment.