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In 1965, Walt Disney Records (then known as Disneyland Records) introduced their own line of book-and-audio read-along albums. The initial read-along albums released at this time included '''Sleeping Beauty''', '''Mary Poppins''', '''Three Little Pigs''', '''Peter Pan''', '''101 Dalmatians''', '''Alice in Wonderland''', '''Cinderella''' and '''Lady and the Tramp''', followed in 1966 by '''Bambi''', '''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''', '''Pinocchio''', '''Mother Goose Rhymes''', '''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree''' and '''The Seven Dwarfs and Their Diamond Mine'''. Around 1971, Disneyland Records changed its name to Disneyland/Vista Records. In mid-1986, at the time Walt Disney Productions changed its name to The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland/Vista Records and Walt Disney Telecommunications & Non-Theatrical Company, alongside their subsidiaries and divisions, adopted the UPC (Universal Product Code). In 1987, Disneyland/Vista Records changed its name again to Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes, began releasing their albums on audio CD, and discontinued releasing their read-alongs on vinyl record. In early 1988, Walt Disney Telecommunications & Non-Theatrical Company was reincorporated as Buena Vista Home Video. In the fall of 1988, Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes changed its name yet again to Walt Disney Records. The Oliver & Company OST was originally the last album that Walt Disney Records released on vinyl record. They continued to release their albums on audio cassette, however. But for some reason, they didn't update the "list of other read-along titles" covers and back covers of their read-alongs until around mid-1990, e.g. the '''Oliver & Company''' read-along was originally released around late 1988 and '''The Little Mermaid''' read-along was originally released around early 1990 but the "list of other read-along titles" cover and back cover of both read-alongs' original releases still mention Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes. Around mid-1989, Walt Disney Records and Buena Vista Home Video, alongside their subsidiaries and divisions, adopted the ISBN (International Standard Book Number).
From 1995 to 2005, Walt Disney Records had a distribution deal with Warner Music Group Corp. (formerly Warner Music Inc.). Furthermore, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (formerly the CBS Records Group Inc.) handled the distribution of the Hollywood Records label in mainland Asia. In February 1996, following The Walt Disney Company's August 1, 1995 acquisition of Capital Cities/American Broadcasting Companies Inc., the company formed a trademark and copyright holding subsidiary called Disney Enterprises, Inc. In late 1997, Buena Vista Home Video changed its name to Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Previously, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. (formerly Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc.) acted as a copyright holder for most releases under the Buena Vista Home Video label, as well as some under the Walt Disney Home Video label. In March 1998, The Walt Disney Company reorganized its record labels into a new division called the Buena Vista Music Group. Around 2005, once the deal with Warner Music Group Corp. was expired, Disney began new distribution deals with Universal Music Group (for North and South America, Asia and Japan) and EMI Music (Europe, Africa and the Middle East), the latter ironically folded into the former around 2012.
Around the mid-2010s, Walt Disney Records began releasing some of their albums on vinyl record again, as part of a then-new line called the Walt Disney Records Vinyl Vault Collection. The VVC re-releases of the older pre-1971 albums retained the original artwork, but the back of the cover would be modified to include the Walt Disney Records and Walt Disney Records Vinyl Vault Collection logos, as well as the UPC barcodes and latest copyright dates.
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