Disney Songs
A signature of some Disney musical films is their songs' use of nonsense words, the longest and most famous of which is from Mary Poppins, entitled "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". A close second is "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Nonsense word song titles include:
- "Heigh-Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South (1946)
- "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella (1950)
- "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins (1964)
- "Substitutiary Locomotion" from Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), which includes the incantation "Treguna Mekoides and Tracorum Satis Dee"
- "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" from The Tigger Movie (2000)
Nonsense lyrics also feature in the following Disney songs:
- "I Wanna Be Like You" from The Jungle Book features a segment of improvisational nonsense words.
- "Trashing the Camp" from Tarzan also contains a segment of improvisational nonsense words.
- "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" from The Aristocats, sung by Scatman Crothers as "Scat Cat", contains lengthy scat sequences.
Read more about this topic: Non-lexical Vocables In Music
Famous quotes containing the word songs:
“O women, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence,
When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer,
And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the violet air
And covers away the smoke of myrrh and frankincense;
Bend down and pray for all that sin I wove in song....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)