The 20th anniversary of Hal Willner’s Disney music tribute album “Stay Awake” will be celebrated with a concert Oct. 30 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Intention of Willner is to book as many of the album’s participants as possible.
“Yes, we will invite Ringo,” says David Sefton, the executive and artistic director of UCLA Live. Terry Allen of NRBQ and Marshall Allen, who leads the Sun Ra Arkestra, are the first to confirm their appearances. 
back in 1988, the former Beatle performed “When You Wish Upon a Star” with Herb Alpert on trumpet and the track closed out the album that put Willner on the map as king of the tribute discs. He did Nino Rota, Thelonious Monk and Kurt Weill prior to Walt Disney and has done Harry Smith's "Anthology of Folk Music," Carl Stalling and Charles Mingus since.
The 64-minute album contained five medleys plus Tom Waits performing "Heigh Ho" from "Snow White." Performers included Bill Frisell, Bonnie Raitt with Was (Not Was), Los Lobos, Suzanne Vega, Yma Sumac, NRBQ, the Replacements, James Taylor and Sinead O'Connor.
Jazz poet Ken Nordine did "Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actors Life for Me)" and "Desolation Theme" from "Pinocchio." Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded ""Pink Elephants on Parade." Most of the participants are still alive; Sun Ra, Harry Nilsson and Betty Carter have died since its release.
“Stay Awake” concerts have been presented in London and New York, but Sefton says this is the one time it will not be held to a time limit.
“Since the Harry Smith (tribute show), one of our strengths has been putting on these humongous multi-act shows,” he says. “People have the commitment to the place to (stay and watch). It’s part of our identity. … Once it starts, we have to remain incredibly calm because it becomes what it becomes and it always surprises.”
In New York, Adams, Allen, Vega were joined by Steve Buscemi , David Byrne, Gavin Friday, Beth Orton,  and Richard Strange.  London concert was part of Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown Festival.
“My greatest ambition,” Sefton says, “is to bring out Ken Nordine. I’ll stretch the budget to make that happen.”