Annette Funicello had just turned 13 years old when Walt Disney, the studio's head of production, saw her dance in a Fullerton California amateur Swan Lake. Funicello was not asked to audition when she joined the Mickey Mouse Club cast in the first season, much at her Mickey Mouse Club colleagues' displeasure. Disney proved right when they announced that Funicello would be The Mickey Mouse Club's most popular performer and appeared as a character in Adventures in Dairyland, her narrative. Then it became clear that Funicello required records so that she could maximize her talent as a teenager star, and while Annette was not a fan of her singing talent, Disney engaged established arranger Tutti Camerata, who would guide her career as an recording artist. Funicello eventually became comfortable with making records and really liked working with Camerata among the very few forty-something arrangers of the time who got the basic foundations of rock music. Annette Sings Anka was t
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