One song from Pinocchio that is often forgotten is Little Wooden Head. It is the music box song that Geppetto sings as he dances around with Pinocchio, who has not yet come to life.
To make the song even more forgettable, the version that you hear on the official Pinocchio soundtrack doesn't contain the vocal track, sung by the voice of Geppetto, Christian Rub. When listening to the soundtrack, Little Wooden Head blends right in with the rest of the score.
Well, a few people over the years haven't forgotten about this song and have recorded their own versions of it. Included in that very short list are BILL FRISELL and WAYNE HORVITZ who collaborated on the 1988 album, STAY AWAKE: VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF MUSIC FROM VINTAGE DISNEY FILMS
. Bill Frisell, guitar virtuoso and music composer who is one of the leading jazz guitarists of the past twenty years, provides some fancy guitar work and plucks out the melody on the banjo, and Wayne Horvitz, accomplished keyboardist and renowned record producer, backs it up with unique synthesizer sounds and pads.
The song seems to go in a different direction right at the very end, but then fades out. I would have liked to hear where they were planning on going.
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"Stay Awake" has been one of my favorite Disney music collections for a long time, and I couldn't agree more - the end of Little Wooden Head starts to really cook and I would have loved to have heard more. My original copy of Stay Awake was a cassette tape. I'm sure you know this, but when I purchased it in DVD form, I was shocked to find another Frisell/Horvitz song - Dumbo and Timothy - that had been left off the tape (right after Cruella de Ville in Medley 4). This song is terrific as well!
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