George Duning ‎1001 Arabian Nights OST Colpix CP 410 1959 Jim Backus Mr. Magoo

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George Duning ‎– 1001 Arabian Nights (Original Sound Track Recording) Label: Colpix Records ‎– CP 410 Format: Vinyl, LP  Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack, Score Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Main Title 3:41 A2 Magoo's Blues Performer – Jim Backus 2:07 A3 Sultan's Parade And You Are My Dream 3:13 A4 Palanquin Chase 2:15 A5 Wedding Celebration 3:31 A6 Bar Fly Magoo 0:43 B1 You Are My Dream - Reprise Performer – Jud Conlon Singers* 1:48 B2 Three Little Maids From Damascus Vocals – The Clark Sisters (2) 2:22 B3 Unhappy Magoo 1:36 B4 Dream Ballet 3:40 B5 Crazy Carpet 4:09 B6 End Title 1:11 Credits Conductor, Supervised By – Morris Stoloff Lyrics By – Ned Washington Music By – G. Duning* Vocals – The Jud Conlon Singers Voice Actor [Mister Magoo] – Jim Backus Notes Original soundtrack to the first full length Mr. Magoo animated film, 1001 Arabian Nights
1001 Arabian Nights is a 1959 American animated comedy film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Released to theaters on December 1, 1959, the film is a loose adaptation of the Arab folktale of "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights, albeit with the addition of UPA's star cartoon character, Mr. Magoo, to the story as Aladdin's uncle, "Abdul Azziz Magoo". It is the first animated feature to be released by Columbia Pictures.

In a distant Middle Eastern Kingdom, the young Aladdin lives with his nearsighted and stubborn uncle, Abdul Azziz Magoo, who owns a lamp shop. Believing that Aladdin is growing up to be a lazy and irresponsible man, Magoo encourages Aladdin to get married.
Meanwhile, the wizard Wazir has been siphoning money from the royal treasury and managed to persuade the now bankrupt Sultan to ask his daughter, the Princess Yasminda, to marry the richest man in the land; which now happens to be Wazir.
During a Royal Procession, Aladdin and Yasminda fell in love. In his quest for absolute power, Wazir seeks the genie of magic lamp sealed in a magic cave, and needs Aladdin to get it for him. However, he was unable to obtain the lamp after it fell back into the cave with Aladdin still inside. Aladdin met the genie and escapes the cave with a boxful of treasures. Magoo then takes the treasure to the palace as dowry, and managed to unintentionally spoil Wazir and Yasminda's wedding with his naivety and nearsighted physical handicap.
The genie conjured a palace and wealth for Aladdin, which is enough to persuade the Sultan to agree to hand Yasminda to him. However, the vengeful Wazir managed to steal the lamp, and the allegiance of the genie, thus exposing Aladdin as a fraud. Aladdin was sent to the scaffolds.
As Wazir kidnap and attempt to woo Yasminda back, the clueless Magoo inadvertently managed to obtain the lamp from Wazir and thus the allegiance of the genie, while also managed to dodge all of Wazir's attempts to kill him. Wazir fell to his death in his attempt. Only wanting the best for his nephew, Magoo wished for Aladdin and Yasminda to live happily ever after, thus the genie saved Aladdin from execution and the two of them wed.
Voice cast Jim Backus as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo Kathryn Grant as Princess Yasminda Dwayne Hickman as Aladdin Hans Conried as The Wicked Wazir Herschel Bernardi as the Jinni of the Lamp Alan Reed as The Sultan Daws Butler as Omar the Rugmaker The Clark Sisters as The Three Little Maids from Damascus Production The film was originally directed by Pete Burness, who was the series director on the popular series of Mr. Magoo theatrical cartoons produced for Columbia by UPA between 1949 and 1959.[1] Disagreements with producer and UPA owner Stephen Bosustow led to Burness resigning and Bosustow recruiting Jack Kinney, the director of many of Disney's Goofy cartoons, as the film's new director. [1] The voice of Magoo in the short cartoons, Jim Backus, reprises his role in the feature, with Katheryn Grant, the singer/actress wife of Bing Crosby, as the voice of Princess Yasminda and Dwayne Hickman, from TV's The Bob Cummings Show and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, as the voice of Aladdin.[2]
1001 Arabian Nights was the first full-length feature produced by UPA,[1] a studio which had revolutionized animation during the 1950s by incorporating design and limited animation.[3] The film was not a box-office success, and was UPA's final release through Columbia, which had ended its distribution for the UPA short subjects in favor of lower-cost Loopy De Loop cartoons from Hanna-Barbera Productions.[4] Following the film's release, Bousustow sold UPA to Henry G. Saperstein, who moved the studio into television production and a second feature production, Gay Purr-ee, before closing the animation studio and moving UPA on to other ventures.[1]
Home media 1001 Arabian Nights was released on VHS videocassette by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video in 1985. It was released on DVD in 2011 as a manufactured on demand release from the Sony Pictures Choice Collection, now available through the Warner Archive.