Q: Classic Disney park songs like “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me),” the Tiki Room song, and “Grim Grinning Ghosts” have such a warm characteristic sound. Were those songs recorded in a Disney studio, or was that work done elsewhere?
Todd, Locust, Virginia
A: According to Glenn Barker at Walt Disney Imagineering, all of these were recorded on “A” Stage, the large orchestra stage, at the Disney Studio in Burbank. The organ for “Grim Grinning Ghosts” was recorded on the 24-rank Robert Morton pipe organ at Whitney Recording Studio in Glendale, California.
Dave Smith