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Inside the Whimsy Works: My Life with Walt Disney Productions

English

By (author): Jimmy Johnson

In this never-before-published memoir from the files of The Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities, beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and Roy Disney.

This book, also the story of how an empire-within-an-empire is born and nurtured, traces Johnson's innovations in merchandising, publishing, and direct marketing, to the formation of what is now Walt Disney Records. This fascinating autobiography explains how the records helped determine the course of Disney Theme Parks, television, and film through best-selling recordings by icons such as Annette Funicello, Fess Parker, Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, and Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Through Jimmy Johnson's remarkable journey, the film, TV, and recording industries grow up together as changes in tastes and technologies shape the world, while the legacy of Disney is developed as well as carefully sustained for the generations who cherish its stories, characters, and music. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781617039300

About Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) devoted his entire career to the Disney organization. Johnson joined Disney in 1938 as an assistant in the publicity department and worked his way up within the company. He was general manager and later president of the Walt Disney Music Company until his retirement in March of 1975.|Greg Ehrbar is a two-time Grammy-nominated and Addy-winning writer/editor/producer with over a quarter century with The Walt Disney Company. He works in print network TV and online; coauthored Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records (published by the University Press of Mississippi); contributed to The Cartoon Music Book; adapts major films into books; and produces recordings. Ehrbar is a recognized entertainment historian on TV DVD and Blu-ray; the official Disney Parks Blog; Indiewire's animationscoop.com; cartoonresearch.com; mousetracksonline.com; and radio's TV Confidential.|Didier Ghez is vice president of International New Media Latin America & Iberia for NBC Universal. His articles about the parks animation and vintage international Disneyana as well as his many interviews with Disney artists have appeared in Animation Journal Animation Magazine and StoryboarD. He is the coauthor of Disneyland Paris: From Sketch to Reality runs the Disney History Blog and the Disney Books Network website and serves as managing editor of the Walt's People book series.|Grey Johnson Nyack New York writes a blog at http://wordpills.wordpress.com and has had a career as a stage director--most notably as Associate Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage. His long arts marketing career led to becoming the director of membership first at public radio jazz station WBGO and now at America's National Ballet Company(R) the American Ballet Theatre. He is also Jimmy Johnson's son.

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