Walt Disney Records
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| Parent company |
Disney Music Group (The Walt Disney Company) |
| Founded | 1956 |
| Founder |
Roy O. Disney Jimmy Johnson Walt Disney |
| Distributor(s) |
Universal Music Group (United States Of America) Warner Music Group (Russia/CIS) Avex Group (Japan) Sony Music Entertainment (Worldwide) |
| Genre | Pop, soundtrack |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location |
500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California |
| Official website | music |
Walt Disney Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label releases soundtrack albums from The Walt Disney Company's motion pictures, television series, theme parks, and traditional studio albums produced by its roster of pop, teen pop, and country artists.
The label was founded in 1956 as Disneyland Records. Before that time, Disney recordings were licensed to a variety of other labels such as RCA, Decca, Capitol, ABC-Paramount, and United Artists. It was Walt Disney’s brother Roy O. Disney who suggested that Walt Disney Productions (now the modern-day The Walt Disney Company) form their own record label. Roy enlisted longtime staffer Jimmy Johnson to head this new division. It adopted its current name in 1989.
In 1954, the Disneyland Record label was used for a Columbia Records release of Fess Parker's recording of the Ballad of Davy Crockett. The record was a success causing the formation of the record company.
The company was founded as Disneyland Records in 1956, serving as the recorded unit subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions. The Disneyland company issued its first album, A Child's Garden of Verses. Also, Disneyland Records issued a Parker's "Wringle Wrangle" single from the Westward Ho the Wagons! film with in a year of starting operations; the single became a hit. This led the company to start recording music from outside the films. However, what ever was released by the company the industry categorized as children. Pricing was directed towards an adult audience, which was more than standard children fare. The only outside success was "Tutti's Trumpets". Thus in 1959, the Disneyland label became the children's label and Buena Vista label for the occasional pop song record.
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