Besides the music and colorful backgrounds, the acting was great and the story telling teaches us life lessons like anti discrimination, anti pride, and trying new things. This music is such an excellent piece of comfortable and fun type of jazz. All the work is thanks to Dean Elliot.
Like Sleeping Beauty (1959) (higher pitch for Lord Duke while using his normal voice for King Stefan to do a test recording), Hans Conried used a slightly different voice to provide his voices for the North/South Going Zax and do the narration. I also recalled that he probably did the little Sneetch and the Fox, but never semi-confirmed. His voice would go back to normal when he became the second voice of the Grinch in Halloween is Grinch Night (1977), another best Dr. Seuss special and my number two favorite Dr. Seuss special.
What I also enjoyed is the same laugh Guy-Am-I used was Tigger's laugh. The late Paul Winchell ws a marvelous lad in providing the voices of Sam-I-Am, Guy-Am-I, and the Sneetches, so does Bob Holt as Sylvester McMonkey McBean and the Sneetches and Allan Sherman as the Cat in the Hat as his final project before his death on November 20, 1973.
Next to one of my favorite friendship films such as Beauty and the Beast (both the original 1991 animated classic and the 2017 live action remake, my second favorite Disney live action remake), Dumbo (1941), The Cat in the Hat (1971, NOT the 2003 awful film of the same name), Wallace and Gromit, etc., this special holds a place in my heart with all the life lessons we folks must learn.
