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Inside the whimsy works : my life with Walt Disney Productions / Jimmy Johnson ; edited by Greg Ehrbar and Didier Ghez.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML429.J64 A3 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Jimmy, 1917-1976, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Jimmy, 1917-1976.
- Walt Disney Company--History.
- Walt Disney Company.
- Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.
- Sound recording executives and producers.
- Music publishers.
- History.
- United States.
- Music publishers--United States--Biography.
- Executives--United States--Biography.
- Executives.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
- Summary:
- "In this never-before-published memoir from the vaults of the Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities, beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and Roy Disney.This book, also the story of how an empire-within-an-empire is born and nurtured, traces Johnson's innovations in merchandising, publishing, and direct marketing, to the formation of what is now Walt Disney Records. This fascinating autobiography explains how the records helped determine the course of Disney Theme Parks, television, and film through best-selling recordings by icons such as Annette Funicello, Fess Parker, Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, and Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.Through Jimmy Johnson's remarkable journey, the film, TV, and recording industries grow up together as changes in tastes and technologies shape the world, while the legacy of Disney is developed as well as carefully sustained for the generations who cherish its stories, characters, and music"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Halcyon Days at Hyperion 3
- Chapter 2 World War II 19
- Chapter 3 Back to the Studio 25
- Chapter 4 The Perilous Postwar Years 39
- Chapter 5 Disney Publications 47
- Chapter 6 Music Publishing and How Davy Crockett Turned It Around 57
- Chapter 7 We Take the Plunge into the Perilous Record Business 73
- Chapter 8 Disneyland Park Springs from an Orange Grove 97
- Chapter 9 Buoyant Days at Burbank 105
- Chapter 10 Music and Mary Poppins 115
- Chapter 11 Walt and Roy and the Right Wavelength 135
- Chapter 12 Walt Disney's One World 145
- Chapter 13 Roy Completes Walt Disney's Dream 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Johnson, Jimmy, 1917-1976, author. Inside the whimsy works
- ISBN:
- 9781617039300
- 1617039306
- 9781617039317
- 1617039314
- OCLC:
- 837957746
- Online:
- Cover image
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