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Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music production arm of The Walt Disney Company. The division consists of two affiliated record labels—Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records—and Disney Music Publishing, the publishing entity that administers the company's music. The president of the group is Ken Bunt,〔 who reports to Alan F. Horn, the chairman of The Walt Disney Studios. It is currently headquartered in the Frank G. Wells Building at The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. ==Background== Music was key to the Disney Brother Studios' success. Either public domain or original music were used for their cartoons. With neither Walt Disney nor Roy O. Disney having any music industry experience, the studio had to rely on outside music publishers. In 1928, Walt Disney produced the third animated Mickey Mouse short, ''Steamboat Willie'', which had a soundtrack while previous efforts were silent films. Thus soundtracks are added to the previously two produced Mickey Mouse short films. In 1929, Walt Disney and Carl Stalling wrote "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo", the first song from The Walt Disney Studios, for ''Mickey's Follies''.〔 * *〕 On December 16, 1929, the Disney Film Recording Company, Limited was incorporated as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions. Saul Bourne at Irving Berlin Music approached the studio after seeing ''Three Little Pigs'' with interest in the publishing rights for its theme song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?". With Disney partnering with Bourne and Berlin, this partnership led to the song being recorded twice by the Don Bestor Orchestra (released by Victor Records) and Bill Scotti Orchestra (released by Bluebird Records). The song was a hit and a Depression era anthem.〔 Walt Disney Productions then began licensing out its music with the record company either selecting its own or Disney's talent to record the music. Until 1936, no one had issued an actual song track recording on disc. RCA's HMV label released a selection of Disney short film music in England with the US release a year later.〔 The ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' soundtrack album released by Victor was the first feature film soundtrack. Disney had sold its rights to the ''Snow White'' music to Bourne Co. Music as they needed more funds to complete the film. In 1938, Fantasound— In addition to ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', Disney also sold the music publishing rights to ''Pinocchio'' and ''Dumbo'' to Bourne. To date, all attempts to reacquire the music rights to the three films have failed. After ''Bambi'', the effects of World War II reduced the production of new feature length animation, with Disney either making feature length live films with some animation or themed short film into anthology films like ''Make Mine Music''. The latter films contain the bulk of the more commercial music which was done by recording stars thus released by their record company.〔 In April 1947, the Walt Disney Music Company (WDMC) was incorporated, with Fred Raphael putting the company together in late 1949 to publish and license songs from ''Cinderella''. ''Cinderella'' records appeared in stores along with other merchandise in 1949 before the 1950 release of the movie. The RCA multi-album release was number 1 on the ''Billboard'' magazine pop charts. Disney music was moving into the big business level. While WDMC did not produce the records, Raphael handled the selection, performance and recording.〔 James Alexander "Jimmy" Johnson, Jr., a fired Disney publicity staff member who wanted to stay at Disney, moved through a series of jobs there in the traffic department, and then accounting. After a stint in the military, he became assistant to the corporate secretary, then handled merchandising issues amongst other additional duties. With Roy Disney's split of the merchandising division from Walt Disney Productions, Johnson became head of the merchandising division's publication department in 1950 and took on managing business affairs for the Walt Disney Music Company. Raphael took the WDMC into creating original non-film music.〔 Walt Disney Productions formed the Wonderland Music Company in 1951. Disney's next push into music came from ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' as eight records for the show hit shelves the week it premiered on television. Walt Disney Music Company's partners, Golden Records and Am-Par Records, turned over production of the show's music after a year to Disney leading to the creation of the Disneyland Records label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disney Music Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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