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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:15 pm 
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WTF? Haven't had a chance to listen, but here 'tis:

Los Lobos - Los Lobos Goes Disney (2009)

Review by William Ruhlmann Allmusic

For their second children's album (following 2005's Papa's Dream, made with Lalo Guerrero), Los Lobos pay tribute to the Walt Disney movie musicals, as others have done before them.

This version of the Disney songbook falls in between Barbara Cook's traditional pop treatment on The Disney Album and producer Hal Willner's more imaginative, revisionist take of some of the material, Stay Awake. (Los Lobos appeared on the latter, performing "I Wan'na Be Like You," a song repeated here.) Put simply, Los Lobos Goes Disney could have been called "Disney goes Los Lobos" instead, since the group applies its familiar mixture of musical styles to Disney songs.

At first, that seems more radical than it turns out to be over the course of the disc, as the band launches into a spirited version of "Heigh-Ho" sung in Spanish. English rules thereafter, as Los Lobos alternately play the songs in rock & roll ("The Ugly Bug Ball") and Mexican ("Bella Notte" in a norteño reading) styles, as is their wont. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" gets a surprisingly relaxed arrangement, with a loping tempo, while "The Bare Necessities" is taken at a quick 2-step beat with a Cajun/zy-de-co flavor.

Randy Newman's wistful "I Will Go Sailing No More" from Toy Story is as wistful as usual, however, and "Oo-De-Lally" from Robin Hood retains its identity as a typical country-folk number from the old "king of the road," Roger Miller. It all ends up with an instrumental medley of "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "It's a Small World" that sounds like it belongs on a tape of early Beatles recordings; it even comes complete with the crescendo from "Twist & Shout."

Clearly, Los Lobos were having fun on this record, as they should have been. The interpretations are hardly definitive, but they are enjoyable and demonstrate the range and adaptability of the music written for Disney movies over the years.

1 Heigh-Ho [From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs] Churchill, Morey 02:37
2 I Wan'na Be Like You [From The Jungle Book] Sherman, Sherman 03:38
3 Not in Nottingham [From Robin Hood] Miller 03:19
4 The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room Sherman, Sherman 02:50
5 Grim Grinning Ghosts [From Haunted Mansion] Atencio, Baker 03:32
6 I Will Go Sailing No More [From Toy Story] Newman 02:22
7 The Ugly Bug Ball [From Summer Magic] Sherman, Sherman 03:27
8 Cruella de Vil [From 101 Dalmations] Levin 03:47
9 Bella Notte [From Lady and the Tramp] Burke, Lee 02:50
10 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah [From Song of the South] Gilbert, Wrubel 02:48
11 The Bare Necessities [From The Jungle Book] Gilkyson 02:58
12 Oo-De-Lally [From Robin Hood] Miller 02:09
13 When You Wish Upon a Star/It's a Small World Harline, Sherman, Sherman ... 02:27

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I'm confused as to why this hasn't been commented on. :?:

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Oh man, this'll be worth me downloading just for the two Robin Hood tracks. I've always wanted a soundtrack for that movie, but of course one never appeared--at least, not on CD. Hopefully their rendition of Not In Nottingham does the movie version justice. I still sing that as I walk around campus on a regular basis.

Actually, beyond the two Robin Hood tracks this is a very interesting tracklist--I like the song selections a lot.


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TheTheory Wrote:
Oh man, this'll be worth me downloading just for the two Robin Hood tracks. I've always wanted a soundtrack for that movie, but of course one never appeared--at least, not on CD. Hopefully their rendition of Not In Nottingham does the movie version justice. I still sing that as I walk around campus on a regular basis.

Actually, beyond the two Robin Hood tracks this is a very interesting tracklist--I like the song selections a lot.


Cool. I thought it might be too childish, but it's whimsical and still Los Lobos (who generally kill in concert, btw).

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I am probably the biggest Los Lobos fan on Obner... I've seen them 20-25 times dating back to the mid-70s when they were "los lobos del este" and HS students at Garfield HS.

But I have to ignore this. I can't process it at all.

"thank you music lovers" indeed.

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