In 1970, Disneyland Records released The Story and Songs of The Tin Woodman of Oz. The LP came with an 11-page illustrated booklet which is a loose adaptation of The Tin Woodman of Oz.
It has a runtime of about 43 minutes with four musical performances credited to instrumentals by Camarata with vocals by The Mike Sammes Singers.
Description[]
The story is narrated by Sam Edwards who voices the Tin Woodman, and it includes three original songs written especially for this record: "I Dream Of True Love", "Mrs. Yoop, The Yookoohoo", and "I Found My True Love." The story was adapted by Jimmy Johnson as it follow’s Baum's book rather faithfully even with additions such as the Cowardly Lion and a subplot of other characters looking for true love. This, however waters the story down because one theme in that book was that sometimes the conventional fairy tale ending isn't the happiest. This is not carried over here, since the ending of this story slightly differs from the original novel because it was re-written to have all the main characters get married. The record's case opens up into a giant-sized 11-page read-along picture storybook that contains magnificent and beautifully rendered full-color pastel painted illustration drawings by the Walt Disney studio's staff artists, where many characters have original designs, but some of the more classic characters are based on their classic designs.
Plot[]
There is a celebration in the Emerald City, when the guests overhear a young man who is outside singing about how he'll find his true love. He enters and introduces himself as Woot the Wanderer. Woot tells about how he had a dream about a girl and he intends to find her because she's his true love. This reminds the Tin Woodman of Nimmie Amee and he tells his origin story of how he became tin, and decides he will join Woot and they'll look for their true loves together. The Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion join to look for their own true loves as well, the scarecrow is hoping to find a scarecrowess while the Lion hopes to find a lioness.
The party travels to Loonville and Yoop Castle, where they meet Mrs. Yoop the Yookoohoo who captures the travelers and gives them malicious transformations into other forms of enchanted objects with her magic for selfish amusement: the Cowardly Lion becomes a mouse, the Tin Woodman is turned into a tin owl, the Scarecrow is transformed into a brown bear stuffed with straw, and Woot is changed into a green monkey. She then introduces them to her canary who is really a fairy named Polychrome. The friends escape from Mrs. Yoop and head to Jinjur's ranch, where Queen Ozma arrives to rescue the group and restore their forms back to normal, as Woot discovers that Polychrome is the girl he dreamed of.
They accompany Ozma back to the Emerald City leaving the Tin woodman, Scarecrow, and Lion. But soon the Lion meets a lioness and they also leave for the emerald city. The tin woodman and scarecrow encounter the hip-po-gry-raf, who eats the scarecrow's straw, but he's shortly restuffed. The tin woodman finds Nimmee Aimee imprisoned and her home guarded by a tin soldier, who fights the tin woodman, but the tin woodman manages to defeat him. Nimmee Aimee reveals that the tin soldier was made by the same tinsmith who helped the tin woodman as a replacement when he never came back for her. However, the wicked witch of the east enchanted him to keep Nimmee Aimee prisoner and fight the Tin Woodman should he return. Nimmie Amee is happy to accept the Tin Woodman's marriage proposal at last, and she accompanies him back to the emerald city. The scarecrow decides he will go back to the emerald city, despite not having found a scarecrowess. However after the group arrives, Ozma introduces Scarecrow to a scarecrowess who seemingly resembles the Patchwork Girl , and there's a quadruple wedding as Woot, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion are all wed.
Voice Cast[]
- Sam Edwards as the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and the hyp-po-gy-raf
- Dallas McKennon as the scarecrow and the tin soldier
- Ron Howard as Woot the wanderer
- Ginny Tyler as Mrs. Yoop the yookoohoo, the lioness, the scarecrowess, Jinjur, and queen Ozma
- Robie Lester as Polychrome the fairy and Nimmie Amee
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