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:
“When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang’umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?”
—Julius K. Nyerere (b. 1922)