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Okay, joking aside, yes, Hayley Mills was no great talent as a singer. I recall reading somewhere that her songs were specially selected so that she wouldn't have to hold any notes out at length, but simply chop them out in short bursts. Still, unlike the talentless teens who proliferate these days, Hayley could get by on personality and charm. (I suppose if her songs had been through the digital pitch correction and artificial sweetening available to today's "artists," she might have been indistinguishable from them.) I had a Hayley Mills record when I was about ten or eleven. I'm sure I knew then that it was of dubious quality musically, but I had such a crush on her, it didn't matter.
As of a viewing about two years ago, yes, I think Dr. Syn holds up pretty nicely as nostalgic matinee entertainment. Boy, it sure will need a remaster, though. The episodes as shown on Vault Disney (ten years ago and then some) looked like they had been printed on whole grain toast.
I could go on at length about my fave live action Disney films, but I do want to give aquick shout out to Joe Flynn, a guy whose presence in a Disney comedy, no matter how dismal, guaranteed that I would collapse in a fit of giggles.
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