Mickey Mouse Disco is an album released by Disneyland Records in 1979.[2] A late entry in the genre of disco, Mickey Mouse Disco included disco versions of Disney songs and Disney-fied versions of disco hits. The album was re-released on CD in 1995, and later as a download. On April 13, 2019, in honor of the album's 40th anniversary, the original LP was reissued for the annual Record Store Day.[3]
"Disco Mickey Mouse" has appeared on more Disney compilation albums like Hallmark Celebrates 75 Years With Mickey[12] and Walt Disney Records Archive Collection, Vol.1[13]
D23 celebrated the album's 40th anniversary with a roller disco party.[14]
A sample of the discofied version of "It's a Small World" can be heard on Fatboy Slim's 1999 recording "Praise You".[15]
The outfit that Mickey wears on the cover of the album is on display as one of his costumes in the queue of the Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway attraction at Disneyland. In addition, a selection of songs from the album can be heard from sound equipment next to the costume.[16][17]
^ abHollis, Tim; Ehrbar, Greg (August 16, 2011). Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN9781617034336. Retrieved December 16, 2023. The album may have been titled Mickey Mouse Disco, but Mickey's voice is nowhere to be heard. However, Donald Duck makes a memorable appearance in "Macho Duck", Tom Worrall's spoof of the Village People hit "Macho Man", with lead vocals by Nashville studio singer Eddie Frierson. In this song, Jim Tadevic, who was on the Disney studio staff as location spotter, plays Donald. Tadevic had filled in as early as 1964 when Clarence Nash was unavailable to voice Donald for one reason or another, appearing first in commercials and later in Disney educational products. Tadevic's Donald differed from Nash's because Tadevic generated the voice in his throat rather the back of the mouth, as Nash and most other successors had done. Disney executives believed that Tadevic's vocal process made him more suitable for narration and other duties in which Donald's normally poor diction would have been a hindrance. For "Macho Duck", Tadevic was called in to listen to the completed song and ad-lib responses. "The version you hear on the album is the result of four different takes, with the best stuff from each edited together," he explained. The end result was so entertaining that Tony Pope was then brought in to add comic dialogue to "Watch Out for Goofy", as the lovable bumbler made a shambles of the dance floor and its patrons.
^"International"(PDF). Cash Box. March 1, 1980. p. 45. Retrieved December 3, 2021 – via World Radio History.
