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Regular Zemeckis collaborator Alan Silvestri composed the film score with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). Zemeckis joked that "the British could not keep up with Silvestri's jazz tempo".


'Happy Harmonies' cartoon series were MGM's answer to Disney's Silly Symphonies, produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising between 1934 and 1938. 36 cartoons were made in this series.


Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. A sequel to 1940's Fantasia, the film is the thirty-eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics.


Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955.

This cartoon was published in 1943, during the wartime in the US as a Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies cartoon. It contains some great music made by an unknown orchestra and unknown artists. The lead character is a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller  as an anthropomorphic cat.


Walt Disney loved jazz music.One more example is The Jungle Book ,released on October 18, 1967, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The movie contains a number of classic songs.


Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures. Dumbo won the 1941 Academy Award for Original Music Score, awarded to musical directors Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace. The film also won Best Animation Design at the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.


Musical medley of fun and fantasy from Disney!

 

it's a fun little CD that exposed kids to something they might not otherwise heart This CD was released in 2004.