![]() I had not been involved in the production of the album, nor had I chosen the songs that were to be included. The original producers, Jim Carroll and Pat MacKenzie, had originally hoped that Topic would issue a double CD using many of their recordings of Walter. It seems that Topic felt that these later recordings failed to show Walter at his best and so Jim and Pat withdrew from the project, leaving Topic with a single CD that was without notes or documentation. I also rediscovered pages of notes that I had made whilst talking to him, and these were used as the basis for my sleeve notes.īut I was not able to incorporate all this material into the sleeve notes, and so I have selected and edited some of my notes into several of the sections which follow, in the booklet to this MT production: Most of the recordings on this CD had been recorded either by Bill Leader or myself and I found that listening to Walter again brought back many memories of him. Walter's Recorded Legacy outlines how Walter's recordings were made and includes some impressions of what it was like to record him. The Walter Pardon Discography lists all of Walter's recordings that have been issued on record albums, cassettes or CDs. The Walter Pardon Repertoire contains the titles of 182 songs we are aware that Walter knew. Details are given of which songs were issued on commercial recordings. Where the word 'tape' is shown after a song title, this indicates that an unissued recording is known to exist. The Listing of Walter's 78rpm gramophone records includes of all the records that were in Walter's home in 1979. ![]() Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York.Mention is made of a few of these recordings in the notes to Topic's A World Without Horses. ![]() It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and won the Phoenix Award twenty years later. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed 2004 animated film of the same name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel in the series of books called the Howl Series. This series also includes Castle in the Air, published in 1990, and House of Many Ways, published in 2008. WorldCat reports that Howl's Moving Castle is the author's work most widely held in participating libraries, followed by its first sequel Castle in the Air. įor the idea Jones "very much" thanked "a boy in a school I was visiting", whose name she had noted but lost and forgotten. 5 Allusions and references to other worksġ8-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the eldest of three will never be successful.He had "asked me to write a book titled The Moving Castle". As the eldest, Sophie is resigned to a dull future running the family hat shop. Unbeknownst to her, she is able to talk life into objects. ![]() When the powerful Witch of the Waste considers her a threat and turns her into an old crone, Sophie leaves the shop and finds work as a cleaning lady for the notorious wizard Howl. SNOWTAPE MOVING CASTLE TRACKLIST SERIES. ![]()
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