DISNEY CUSTOM PRESSINGS

    

From 1965 until at least 1971 material from various Walt Disney productions was made available by several companies in the form of 7" singles, which were generally given away free or in exchange for tokens.   These records were numbered in a DIS-0 series, which reached at least DIS-8.  Companies which took advantage of this form of promotion included margarine manufacturers Summer County (twice); makers of paper plates, cups and so forth Deeko;  cheese spread manufacturers Milkana; and Rotadraw, the makers of a popular art toy for children.  The records seem to have generally been provided with special sleeves, as can be seen in the examples shown above.  The fourth record in the series was different to the others: it was made by Walt Disney themselves and was a promotional record for their new film, 'The Happiest Millionaire'.  The Acker Bilk single pictured above, 'Everybody Wants To Be A Cat' b/w 'Thomas O' Malley Cat' (DIS-6; 1970), was pressed was by EMI, while the Billy Cotton was a British Homophone pressing.  The discography below lists the Disney custom pressings that I have managed to track down thus far; several gaps remain to be filled.  Thanks to Robert Bowes for the Deeko sleeve, and to Sporidium of the 45cat site for the use of the Rotadraw.

Copyright 2009 Robert Lyons.