"Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" is an episode of Walt Disney Presents. It aired on March 27, 1959.
Plot[]
Professor Owl teaches his class about the elements of musical instruments, melody and inspirations for songs. The show is primarily made up of footage from Melody and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, as well as new animation bookending other Disney cartoon musicals.
Featured cartoons[]
Voice Cast[]
- Professor Owl - Wm. H. (Bill) Thompson
Additional Crew[]
- Animation: Don Lusk, Hal Ambro, Dan MacManus, Julius Svendsen, Al Coe, Marc Davis
- Animation Research: Bob McCrea
- Layout: Joe Hale, Ken O'Connor, Xavier Atencio
- Backgrounds: Eyvind Earle, Fil Mottola
- Film Editor: Samuel Horta
- Music: Joseph Dubin
- Songs: Paul Francis Webster, George Bruns, Jack Elliot, Sonny Burke, Billy Mills, Paul Mason Howard
- Special Processes: Eustace Lycett
- Sound: Robert O. Cook
- Production Supervisor: Harry Tytle
Trivia[]
- Scenes from this episode were re-used in Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Heigh-Ho, and Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Fun with Music.
- The unnamed main characters of Music Land were given each a name, Queen Cello and Princess Fideladee for the queen and princess of the Land of Symphony, King Sax and Prince Max for the king and prince of the Isle of Jazz.
- The same goes for the unnamed boy in A Cowboy Needs a Horse, who was given the name, Johnny.
- The new character Roberta Robin was introduced and was the cousin of Penelope Pinfeather.
- The score for Music Land, originally composed by Leigh Harline, was entirely recomposed for this program by George Bruns.
