To sweeten the synergy, a theme park familiar to many becomes the locale, though if you can argue that volumes like Disneyland Fun, Beach Party at Walt Disney World, and Flik's Musical Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom are tantamount to for-sale advertising for their respective Disney Parks settings, it's harder to do so here, since Disneyland only prominently features in two places in this video, despite what the subtitle suggests.Īs you can probably guess from the title and cover art, the release of this DVD is timed to coincide with the ever-expanding Halloween season (Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party kicks off tonight at Walt Disney World). There is also a bit of the usual animated sampling in a few numbers. Of course, fulfilling the Sing Along portion is the presence, as always, of animated on-screen lyrics. Quite simply, this means that Happy Haunting take its cues from "Barney & Friends" (among others) by mixing ordinary young children with full-sized costumed characters for song and dance sequences. It is a descendant of the line "Mickey's Fun Songs" which soon came to be merged with the other Sing Along Songs titles. Happy Haunting comes from a different and slightly more original mold. While the earliest and newest Sing Along titles have been composed chiefly from recycled clips of Disney animated films,
An end is not yet in sight more than a dozen titles in the series, long-discontinued on VHS, still have yet to resurface on disc. Last week, Sing Along Songs: Happy Haunting - Party at Disneyland!, originally released in 1998, became the ninth pre-existing Sing Along title to make its way to DVD in the course of one year.
While the former thread seems to be winding down as direct-to-video sequels and non-princesses get tapped to fulfill an apparent 1-new-volume-a-year quota, the other source has a bit more life to it. Nonetheless, the Sing Along Songs format continues to live on in two ways: through the Disney Princess franchise and through untimely DVD debuts of old videocassette volumes. Then, in 2005, Chicken Little marked not only a jump to CGI and a different type of filmmaking, but also a departure from the Sing-Along tie-in its planned theatrical companion was scrapped. Once a viable way to promote the latest big animated Disney film in theaters (and an easy way to expand such a cinematic mega-event's hold on stores), the format grew weary as Disney's 2-D releases stopped being more than movies.Īfter a 5-year lapse (which reflected a shift in Disney's Feature Animation output), new volumes arrived alongside hardly-musicals Brother Bear and Home on the Range.
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At the same time, a grand tribute hardly seems in order, since the Sing Along series has undergone vast change and largely faded away in recent years. That two-decade span seems substantial when viewed alongside current DVD lines like the collectible Walt Disney Treasures, the thrifty Classic Cartoon Favorites, or our beloved bi-yearly Platinum Editions, each of which has existed less than one-fourth as long. This December marks the twentieth anniversary of the Disney Sing Along Songs video. Single-sided, single-layered disc (DVD-5) Subtitles: English (Enhanced for Hearing Impaired) Closed Captioned "The Headless Horseman"), "Five Little Witches", "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Casting My Spell", "Trick or Treat", "Monster Mash"ġ.33:1 Fullscreen, Dolby Digital Stereo (English)
Song List: "It's Halloween", "Five Little Pumpkins", "Grim Grinning Ghosts", "Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (a.k.a. Running Time: 31 Minutes / Rating: Not Rated / Video Debut: August 25, 1998
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