Step into the wonderfully whimsical world of the Hundred Acre Wood and Sing a Song with Pooh Bear. It's a typical once-upon-a-time kind of day and Pooh is missing something - his very own song! Accompanied by all his friends, he searches for his song, and, along the way, discovers a bounty of other songs as well. Like a hunny pot brimming over Pooh's favorite treat, his very first sing along musical overflows with charming new songs and collection of all-time favorites from classic Pooh movies.
DVD released in April 2003 as Sing A Song With Pooh Bear And Piglet Too!, to coincide with the theatrical release of Piglet's Big Movie.
"Winnie the Pooh", "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" and "Heffalumps and Woozles" were used respectively on three Disney's Sing-Along Songs videos: The Bare Necessities, I Love to Laugh, and Be Our Guest, and are updated with new lyrics and additional orchestration by Andy Belling. "Winnie the Pooh" reuses the sequence of Pooh walking on the lyrics, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" has almost the entire montage replaced with clips from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, but still keeps Paul Winchell's vocals, and the "Heffalumps and Woozles" sequence is used in its entirety unlike Be Our Guest.
In the 2003 release, the original version of "Winnie the Pooh" was replaced with Carly Simon's version of the song.
Originally released as Winnie-the-Pooh: Sing a Song with Pooh Bear, later re-issued in the Sing-Along Songs series under a new name with new songs. Also released in the UK but only the original home video release.
The beginning of the 1999 release features a computer-animated tour of Christopher Robin's bedroom showing his stuffed toys. This opening would appear again in Seasons of Giving and Sing a Song with Tigger. It is also the only appearance of the prototype instrumental of the CGI intro which features no lyrics. The intro's music is in the key of G major instead of F major at the start, but the F major key is played at the intro's end.
Featured at the end of the 1999 video, Gopher hosts "How to Draw" as he shows you how to draw Pooh's face. It was also featured as the last chapter of the main feature on the DVD release.
Speaking of the 1999 video, this features the "Feature Program" bumper from the Storybooks Classics videos, but the music playing in the background is the 1992-2001 Walt Disney Home Video fanfare with the archive recording of Brian Cummings saying "And now, our feature program." from the Jim Henson Dinosaurs VHS releases, which was used for the 1992-1998 blue style text animation bumpers and some rare "Flashbang" bumpers from 1994-2003.
The Spanish version (which is of Sing a Song with Pooh Bear) is a bonus feature for the DVD release of Sing a Song with Pooh Bear & Piglet Too. Instead of narration, it is just the songs fading in when the song began and out to black when the song ended. Some of the dialogue is still there. In Spanish, it is known as Canta Con Nosotros: Canta Una Cancion Con Wini Pu.
This sing-along is one of few to have an actual storyline (in this case, Pooh trying to find his song). Various scenes of Pooh media (such as those of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (using episodes such as "Where, Oh Where Has My Piglet Gone?" and "Donkey for a Day") and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) were used with the introductions, along with redubbed dialogue.
In the 2003 release, the intro for "My Song" was shortened from the original version in which a few of the scenes that were removed were placed for the intros of the added songs with new dialogue. The narrator's dialogue from the 1999 release of "My Song" was completely changed in the 2003 version's release.
Though the revised version was released in 2003, the credits say 2002, which indicates that it was completed that year. Certain parts of Piglet's Big Movie were completed in time to be used in that version as well.
The end credits use the same background as the end of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh's opening theme.
While this is a compilation of recycled animation per song from previous Pooh media, the songs "Kanga Roo Hop" and "My Song" actually feature some new animation.
The first verse for "Nothing's Too Good for a Friend" (up until Tigger says "That's right, bunny boy!") was altered slightly to fit the special's plotline for Pooh finding his song.
The 2003 DVD included a musical instrument play set with paid order when purchased in a televised 2 DVD collection with Circle of Life.
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Opening title card to the 1999 video release of Winnie the Pooh: Sing a Song with Pooh Bear
