Is Disney kitsch from 1962 still cute in 1998? Hayley Mills, the
\nstar of
\nThe Parent Trap<\/i>, and Walt Disney Records sure hope so with
\ntheir re-relase of
\nLet’s Get Together With Hayley Mills<\/i>. The disc is part of
\nDisney’s
\nThe Archive Collection<\/i>, and is the second in the set.<\/p>\n
In one sense, Disney was pressing their luck at this time,
\nhoping to copy the success that one-time Mousketeer Annette
\nFuniciello had on the young rock market with her hits. But Mills’s
\nCockney accent was still present in some of her vocals, and, well,
\nlet’s face it, her greatest talent wasn’t singing. While she could
\nhold her own in just basic singing, when she tried to do some fancy
\nvocal tricks (like at the end of “Sentimental Sunday,” it’s
\npainfully obvious she shouldn’t have tried that.<\/p>\n
And while I admit some naiveness about the 1962 music scene
\n(gimme a break, I didn’t pop into the world until eight years
\nlater), some of the song selection is very questionable. C’mon, a
\nrock version of “Green And Yellow Basket,” better known as
\n“A-Tisket, A-Tasket”? I’d normally be blunt about my thoughts on
\nthis, but this
\nis<\/i> a Disney album, and kids might be reading. I know the
\nBeatles were just gaining in popularity in 1962, but am I really
\nsupposed to believe that “Jeepers Creepers” was what teenagers were
\nsinging at this time? Four words: I don’t think so.<\/p>\n
However, there are times that Mills does rise above the material
\nto produce some surprisingly good efforts. “Sentimental Sunday”
\nisn’t a bad effort, while “Side By Side” and “Cranberry Bog” could
\nhave been hits, even though they were’nt primarily rock efforts.
\nFor that, you’d have to turn to “Little Boy” – if it only weren’t
\nfor her stacatto delivery of the word “boy,” stretching it into the
\ntwo-word “boh-oy”. Oy. An interesting take on relationships is
\npresented on “Cobbler Cobbler,” though some of the terms like
\n“record hop” might not be understood by some people, even members
\nof Generation X like myself.<\/p>\n
The interesting thing about
\nLet’s Get Together With Hayley Mills<\/i> is that the musical
\nstyle is often ragtime or jazz, but this style works better for
\nMills than the attempts at rock. Light pop is also present on cuts
\nlike “Pollyanna Song,” which took the theme from the movie Mills
\nstarred in and put words to it. (A few songs on this album are
\nnumbers Mills had sung in Disney films.)<\/p>\n
\nLet’s Get Together With Hayley Mills<\/i> is a very short album –
\ntwelve songs clock in at just over 26 minutes – but depending on
\nwhich track you’re on, the album will either seem to fly by or drag
\non endlessly. This is a mixed bag that is more aimed towards the
\nadults who grew up with Mills and want to re-live some memories of
\ntheir childhoods. Young kids might get a kick out of listening to
\nthis – that is, if they’ve not too sophisticated for it, thanks to
\nthe Spice Girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7426],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-39050","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-hayley-mills","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39050"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39050"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}