Learning the words to your favorite Disney tunes is easy and fun, thanks to your hosts Professor Owl and Ludwig von Drake! As you thrill to a glorious rainbow of scenes from Disney Classics, cartoons, movies and TV shows, the words to the songs appear on-screen for easy follow-along singing. This volume includes songs from Disney's animated hit film Oliver & Company featuring Grammy award-winner Billy Joel as Dodger. So gather up the family and join some very special Disney friends for great fun, great music and great company. The gang's all ready...Are you?
Sing along with Billy Joel from Disney's animated hit film Oliver & Company! Includes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Aristocats...and more!
101 Notes of Fun[]
Songs are for sharing, and learning the words to your favourite Disney songs has never been so much fun! Just sing along to the on-screen lyrics as you enjoy classic Disney characters in their most memorable musical scenes!
Mr. Owl and Professor Ludwig von Drake host this volume of Disney's Sing-Along Songs, which highlights music from Disney hit movies including 101 Dalmatians. Gather round the piano with all the lovable dalmation pups, and learn the words to songs from 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, The Aristocats, and many others!
Oliver & Company has made its official home video debut released by Walt Disney Home Video in this musical compilation VHS featuring their best known musical numbers, while the full-length feature film would not be released until its 1996 theatrical re-issue, finally debuting on VHS that year.
Co-hosted by Professor Owl and Ludwig Von Drake. At the beginning of the program, Professor Owl hosts. When "All in the Golden Afternoon" ends, Ludwig Von Drake takes over as host for a lecture on popular music styles. Finally, after "The Blue Danube Waltz" is over, Professor Owl takes over as host for the rest of the program.
"Boo Boo Boo" is the only song that doesn't have text words with a Mickey Mouse icon as a "bouncing ball" appearing on the screen; this song has only the blue words with the crooner from A Symposium on Popular Songs bouncing on them.
An edited version of the "Old MacDonald Had a Band" segment that appeared in this video was credited under Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom. From a technical sense, this is actually correct, because it derived from an episode of the Walt Disney anthology series titled Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom (season 5, episode 24), which aired on March 27, 1959. The unaltered version of "Old MacDonald Had a Band", which did not appear in this video, originated from the Disney short Jack and Old Mac. However, the US and Japanese laserdiscs and UK VHS correctly credit the song under Jack and Old Mac.
This installment was the first to promote, and feature songs from, a then recently-released Disney film (in this case, Oliver & Company). Prior to this, most installments promoted anniversary re-releases of older films. 101 Notes of Fun was used to promote One Hundred and One Dalmatians in 1994.
Retitled 101 Notes of Fun in the UK and other countries, and was not released until 1994.
Cruella De Vil appears in 101 Notes of Fun and replaces "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing". It also replaces the reprise of "Why Should I Worry".
In the end credits, Eva Gabor is wrongly credited, as she did not sing any of the songs in The Aristocats (Robie Lester did). Roscoe Lee Browne (voice of Francis in Oliver & Company) isn't credited here for his part in the reprise of "Why Should I Worry", but should have been as he sang in the final scene of aforementioned film.
The end credits also use a still background of New York City from Oliver & Company. The usual blue G-clef background is used instead in 101 Notes of Fun.
Known as 101 Dalmatas: Notas Musicales in Spanish, released in Spain. Also known as Canta Con Nosotros: 101 Dalmatas: 101 Notas Musicales.
Known as Les 101 Dalmatiens: 101 Notes de Musique in French, released in France.
Known as 101 Dalmatiner: 101 Takte Spass in German, released in Germany.
Known as 101 Dalmatiërs: 101 Puppies met muziek in Dutch, released in Netherlands.
Known as La Carica Dei 101: 101 note in allegria in Italian, released in Italy.
Known as 101 Dálmatas: 101 Notas De Alegria in Portuguese, released in Portugal.
A fragment of the song "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" is briefly heard after "The Blue Danube Waltz". Fittingly, the early Sing-Along Songs videos use footage from the short film of the same name as well as footage from Melody, though not credited.
At the end of 101 Notes of Fun, an image of Pongo replaces the image of the New York City skyline from Oliver & Company on Professor Owl's chart, but when it switches to Pongo and Perdita and the puppies watching Professor Owl on television, the image on the chart switches back to the NYC skyline.
The title card's letters is used strangely in all capital letters only in the German and Italian versions.