I enjoyed writing this ‘The Life of a Song’ piece for @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com (3 Jan 2026) about ‘Trust In Me’ from The Jungle Book, www.ft.com/content/c1f7... #shermanbrothers #gracejones #veronicaswift #siouxsie #halwillner #hollycole #junmiyake #scarlettjohansson #selenagomez #disney
The cover of the 1988 compilation album Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films produced by Hal Wilmer, next to a working record player.
Usually a subheading like this (…Music from Vintage Disney Films) isn’t my thing. Glad I noticed WHO interpreted them when I was flipping through thrift store bins a few years ago. This went straight to the “don’t sell” shelf!
Stay Awake (1988)
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #VinylSky #HalWillner
#JCKaelin: #RIP #HalWillner, my long-time generous customer. His penultimate Twitter post quoted a title he got from me. He turned on many #SNL alumni to me. I'll always remember your #HBD & #RIP dates. 🙏
#MusicProducers #RecordProducers #Films #TV #SaturdayNightLive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p2v...
Damn. I'm so sorry that, had Hal Willner was still alive today, he SURELY would've passed away during this Trump Era 2.0.
#HalWillner #50YearsOfSNLMusic #SNL #SaturdayNightLive
Charlie Haden and Fred Hersch "Speak Low". Alternate mix from the Made for TV film honoring composer Kurt Weill. Click on the link below to read/listen.
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#charliehaden #jazz #jazzmusic #kurtweill #halwillner #ahneesharonfreeman #fredhersch
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Hal Willner:
🎵 Meditations on Integration
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▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
From John Leland's profile of #HalWillner.
"In American culture, he said, the avant-garde or the weird were once the mainstream. Soupy Sales spun surrealism for young children; William S. Burroughs read Naked Lunch on Saturday Night Live.
'Weird isn't in right now,' he said."
