Talk:List of Disney's Sing-Along Songs video releases

About Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Let's not automatically believe Wikipedia about everything; that erroneous December 23 release date was suggested at a time when very little was known about home video compared to today. Now that Billboard and other magazines are easily available online, I prefer to refer to them where I'm able to for more accurate release dates. --IlCattivo25 (talk) 01:57, 15 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Alright. I understand now. 2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:5494:9F77:C31C:8013 02:05, 15 May 2022 (UTC)


 * You know what’s also erroneous? I Love To Laugh was believed to be released on 12-28-1990, but clearly it doesn’t make sense to release anything three days after Christmas. In addition, copyright years are production years instead of the actual release years. 2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:89CE:FF4:DB9A:E170 02:39, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

I Love to Laugh
Clearly, I doubt that "Sing-Along Songs: I Love to Laugh" is 1990, because as systemoperator/Jiminy Cricket pointed out, it would not make sense to release anything three days after Christmas.

Besides, Disney’s “The Jungle Book” completed production at the end of 1966, shortly after the death of Walt Disney himself, but never got released theatrically until fall 1967. Does that mean it’s 1966? NOPE, DEFINITELY NOT AT ALL, IT'S STILL 1967.

I also would like to point out that some February 1992 Disney video releases still have 1991 copyright dates. As systemoperator/Jiminy Cricket also pointed out, that’s because the copyright year was the year the project had started and completed production. That clearly means the Feb 1992 video releases with 1991 dates were still 1992 and not 1991.

There obviously ain’t no such thing as a copyright year being a release year. I don’t really want to be rude, but it’s sadly true.

So, as for “Sing-Along Songs: I Love to Laugh”, what was the original release date? Which magazines prove whether this is 1990 or 1991?

2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:89CE:FF4:DB9A:E170 02:38, 18 May 2022 (UTC)


 * That's what I intend to find out. --IlCattivo25 (talk) 04:11, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

If the release date is not in 1990 at all, then it most likely had to be either January or February of 1991. Some magazines/billboards should prove whether this is late 1990 or early '91.

There might even exist 1989 tapes with 1988 dates. 69.85.235.224 12:15, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Be Our Guest
@IlCattivo25

Alright. So, we all know that "Be Our Guest" was released in the Sing-Along Songs line on June 19, 1992. But then, shortly afterwards, Bourne Co. threatened legal action due to the original program containing "Little Wooden Head" from "Pinocchio", which Bourne had publishing rights to.

As a result, Disney had to create a new master print of the program. They had to completely edit out the song, and remove the first half of the lead-out music from the segment at the end of the song [stock clip from a "You Are a Human Animal" short] where Jiminy Cricket (voice: Eddie Carroll) says, "How did you like that music?" and introduces "Bella Notte" from "Lady and the Tramp".

It took three months for Disney and its tape duplication service, Technicolor Videocassette, to mass-produce the edited program, before Disney could release it again. The earliest copies of the edited program were probably printed around early July 1992. And the release date was sometime in October of 1992, I believe.

My question is, was the edited program of "Be Our Guest" released to coincide with the video release of "Beauty and the Beast"? Or was it sometime in early/mid October 1992?

Which magazines mention the edited program, and the actual release date of it?

69.85.235.233 19:24, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Ink-Labels without Header and Volume Number
Vol. 11 ink-label retains the Disney's header and the volume number on the tape label, in addition to the Sorcerer Mickey placement, but when ink-labels for the pre-Dec 1990 titles were made, all of those had to be removed. So it seems that this happened when the three "A Goof Troop" volumes were released on video, because those had no Sorcerer Mickey placement at all. 69.85.235.46 12:26, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

About volume alterations

 * When "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "Heigh-Ho" were re-issued on May 3, 1990 in the second season of the DSAS line, the former program had to be re-labeled vol. 2, with the latter re-labeled vol. 1. From my knowledge, not only was this because "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" predated "Song of the South"; it was also because people were beginning to complain about the portrayal of African-Americans in the latter film (this was also why the latter film was later withdrawn permanently in Dec. 2001).


 * I’m still wondering — when "The Bare Necessities" and "You Can Fly" were also reissued in the second season, why did the former program have to be re-labeled vol. 4, with the latter re-labeled vol. 3? Was this because "Peter Pan" predated "The Jungle Book" or something like that?

2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:7961:F99A:3CEE:188B 16:44, 24 May 2022 (UTC)