Cover of Brian Wilson's In the Key of Disney

The album is due out Oct. 25, USA Today reports.

I enjoyed Brian's Gershwin album quite a bit. Disney tunes seem like an even better pairing and I'm looking forward to hearing the arrangements. At the same time, I hope he'll follow this up with an album of original tunes. That Lucky Old Sun, his last collection of originals, was very strong.

"The Beach Boys sound and the Disney people make a fantastic collaboration," says Wilson, 69. "I tried to do justice to all their songs."


The tracks include songs from Disney's early animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs all the way to last year's Toy Story 3. Working with co-arranger Paul Von Mertens, Wilson imbues the songs with complex falsettos and an innocence associated with the Beach Boys sound.


Dumbo lullaby Baby Mine features harmonies that might have fit on Wilson's In My Room. An instrumental medley of Snow White's Heigh-Ho and Whistle While You Work also incorporates a line from Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me), the theme song of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean attractions.