It was renamed We Think the World is Round.įirst billing on the 1971 album goes to movie star (and Gilbert’s wife) Janis Paige. Over a decade later, Gilbert decided to re-record the album on a private label called “Jellybean Productions” (presumably his own with possible co-investors). The very first result was a 1958 record album called The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria, which is detailed further below. For the music, Gilbert called upon Ray Rasch, another Oscar winner for Chaplin’s 1952 feature, Limelight. Chief among them was Del Connell, top Disney story artist, maquette sculptor and legendary Western Publishing comics writer/artist (Super Goof and Wacky Witch were among his creations). Gilbert took this concept to family and friends to help make it happen. There is minimal mention of humans at all. Today, many would add mention the whole story is already a fantasy, fraught with nagging “problematic concerns.” But in the mid-twentieth century, schools firmly insisted on 1492 being the year that “Columbus sailed the ocean blue to find this land for me and you.” Leif Erickson was also cited as being on the continent earlier on many occasions, but not always in schools, though this 1966 Flintstone children’s album gave him credit.)įor the purposes of this musical fairy tale, all the ships are the main characters. Suppose the story of America’s discovery was told as a fantasy through the eyes of living ships? Oscar-winning Hollywood songwriter Ray Gilbert, who wrote all the songs for Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear (see this Spin), as well as the lyrics such songs as “The Three Caballeros” and “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (for which he and composer Allie Wrubel shared the gold) had an idea for a children’s musical. Songs: “A Life of Ease,” “I’m Nina, I’m Pinta and I Am Santa Maria,” “We Think the World is Round,” “I’m a Sea Monster,” “Tell Me Pretty Star,” “The Friendly Whales,” “The Storm,” “Little Sea Horses Are We” by Ray Gilbert, Ray Rasch “America the Beautiful” by Katherine Lee Porter. Voices: Sterling Holloway (Pegleg Pelican, Narrator) Janis Paige (Nina) Sidney Miller (Pinta) Cesar Romero (Santa Maria) Robie Lester (Nina’s Singing Voice). Story: Ray Gilbert, Joe Grant, Del Connell, Ray Rasch. Jellybean Productions #157 (12” 33 rpm LP with Book / Stereo) An entry tor the 1979 Best Animated Short Oscar, this animated short began as two different record albums that became a Hanna-Barbera presentation on the Disney Channel.
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