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Possibly. Certainly if technology were the problem, they could have gone over to Fox or MGM, say, where they had been recording beautiful stereo since the early 1950s. OKLAHOMA! recorded it's still-stunning sounding music sometime in 1954 over at Goldwyn Studios, I think. BEAUTY was recorded...

It's odd. Check out the producer's notes on the expanded CDs of LADY and 20,000. They recorded all the music for LADY in mono And for 20,000, they recorded 3 track, but "not true stereo as we know it today," he says. And then BEAUTY in Germany. Don't know what all was going on there, but it...

Yes, but the SLEEPING BEAUTY orchestra was recorded in Germany, not at Disney Studios.

Yes! Those are fascinating albums. BABES is a complete studio redo, except for Ray Bolger's (and probably Ed Wynn's) vocal tracks, which I think are from the actual soundtrack with new orchestra overdubbed. MAGIC is mostly sound track vocals (maybe not for the title song) but with new...

The sound on the stereo LI'L ABNER album is so strange. The orchestra is so aggressively stereo and glossy compared to the vocals it made me think they rerecorded the music tracks in stereo after the fact. And the ROBIN album is not the soundtracks but a complete studio redo according to the...