Q: I was at the D23 Expo this summer, and I saw a record that I have, The Scarecrow of Oz, in the archives. What can you tell me about this album? How many were made, and was it associated with any other Disney project?
Marie, Brooklyn, New York
A: The Scarecrow of Oz long-playing record album, narrated by Ray Bolger who was the Scarecrow in the MGM film, was released by Walt Disney Records in 1965, but we do not know how many were made. It was a Storyteller Album, ST-3930. Years earlier, Disney had purchased the rights to most of the Oz books that were written by L. Frank Baum (but not later ones written by others). Walt had considered making a motion picture entitled The Rainbow Road to Oz in the 1950s, but it was never made. The film would have starred some of the Mouseketeers.
Dave Smith