Now here's an interesting little album. I thought it'd just be a repackage, but no, several of these songs have new arrangements and even a new singer. The first track is unchanged from its inclusion in the first LBT singalong (very appreciated), but then The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur has a different singer, who sounds to be a woman singer doing a little boy voice. Today's the Day is, as far as I can tell, untouched, but then the woman singer comes back for When You're On Your Own. Family has a new arrangement (which is kinda weak, especially compared to the original) with all the original verses, but also there's a new section with what, to my ears, sounds like most of the original VAs, but maaaybe a Littlefoot soundalike? If it's not a soundalike, then do we have a previously unreleased version of the song? Imaginary Friend is untouched, while Best of Friends uses the Olivia Newton-John version of the song. Stupid Stompers is untouched (for better or worse, depending on your view of that song, and naturally Look For the Light and Diana Ross' If We Hold on Together are both untouched.
Another thing, maybe it's just me, but a lot of the songs with their arrangements replaced sound distinctly like MIDIs to me. I'm sure they're not actually MIDI format, but boy do they sound like fake-y sampled instruments.
Looking a little deeper, it looks like this album released around March of last year, but I hadn't seen anything about it previously. You can find all of it on Thomas Dekker's channel, in his top tracks playlist. Main question from me is did we have an extended version of Family before this album? I didn't realize if we did, but I want it now, preferably with the original arrangement. If that's Thomas Dekker's voice in the extended verse and not a soundalike, surely it must exist with the original arrangement. I'd guess that it is, given that they didn't get any of the other original actors to redo their lines on songs they'd normally feature in, they just had the aforementioned lady singer redo all of the parts, despite crediting the original cast when they're clearly not the ones singing.
Very interested in this subject now, and especially about this version of Family. If it exists, I need an extended version of the absolute heartbreak that is that song.
