I love the triumphant nature the chorus!
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Posts Tagged ‘Disney’
Phil Collins – "Strangers Like Me" (1998)
2011/03/10Sherman Brothers – "Let's Go Fly A Kite" (1964)
2010/11/14
Yesterday I happened to say "my work here is done". It is a phrase that I always knew was not my own, but I use it from time to time. Really a lot of things people say are variations on quotations from film and literature. Still I decided this one was worth looking up.
FIRST I found Noël Godin, the guy famous for ambushing Bill Gates in 1998 who then said "my work here is done", but I knew he was too recent.
SECOND I also found references to "The Simpsons", including "Marge Vs. The Monorail", after the monorail crisis is resolved:
Leonard Nimoy: Well, my work here is done.
Barney: Whaddaya mean, 'your work is done'? You didn't do anything.
Leonard Nimoy: [Chuckles knowingly] Didn't I?
THIRD I also found Mel Brook's 1974 movie, "Blazing Saddles":
Sheriff Bart: My work here is done. I'm needed elsewhere now. I'm needed wherever outlaws rule the west. Wherever innocent women and children are afraid to walk the streets. Wherever a man cannot live in simple dignity, and wherever a people cry out for justice.
Townspeople: Bullshit!
But even that seemed to recent.
FOURTH, digging deeper, I found the 1932 suicide note of the man who made my hometown of Rochester, NY what it is, George Eastman founder Eastman Kodak:
"My work is done. Why wait?"
(I should add that George had his reasons… "In his final two years, Eastman was in intense pain, caused by a degenerative disorder affecting his spine. He had trouble standing and his walking became a slow shuffle. Today it might be diagnosed as spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal caused by calcification in the vertebrae. Eastman grew depressed, as he had seen his mother spend the last two years of her life in a wheelchair from the same condition.")
Poor George. Still those words are missing the word "here", so I kept looking…
FIFTH (maybe), I also came across many people saying it was Mary Poppins, but after reviewing the end of the movie several times, I heard no such words!
But I did get "Let's Go Fly A Kite" by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (AKA the Sherman Brothers) stuck in my head.
…and this is why the projects in my house are never going to get done. Damn you Internet and your trial information goodness.
PS: I still don't know for sure who said it or wrote "my work here is done" first. If you do, let me know. In the mean time I'm going to see if I can get my hands on the original "Mary Poppins" books by P.L. Travers. There are about 8 of them, first one written in 1934. And I also want to see if I can get a full length copy of the Walt Disney film. Obsessed a little? Perhaps.
PPS: If I find the answer I'll let you know here!
PPPS: Procrastination is fun!
PPPPS: I want to get a kite now and fly it too! I've got tuppence!
PPPPPS: Here is the ending to the film where the song is sung:
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Click here for more info on Sherman Brothers – Mary Poppins Soundtrack – "Let's Go Fly A Kite".
The MP3 may be purchased here… Sherman Brothers - Mary Poppins Soundtrack
Sherman Brothers – "When the Rain Rain Rain Came Down" (1968)
2010/09/12
Today is a wet cold rainy kind of day. Unfortunately my nose is not dissimilar. My allergies and/or a cold smacked me upside the face yesterday and I ended up sleeping 13 hours after taking the "non-drowsy" medicine. Lies! It is a shame to lose so much of my weekend. I had high hopes for achievement and fun, and instead I am sitting here just happy the nose flow appears to be held at bay *knocks on wood*. In more youthful times I'd curl up on the couch and watch some animated classics when I felt ill, but I just have too much I wish to do, so a song from one of the aforementioned films, "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" to be specific, will have to do. Watch the clip here:
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Click here for more info on Sherman Brothers – "When the Rain Rain Rain Came Down".
The DVD (with the song included in "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day") may be purchased here… The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Carl Stalling and Walt Disney – "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" (1929)
2009/11/12
I was raised watching the old Disney cartoons, including the really old Silly Symphonies. I can't remember if they were just on TV or tape, but I recently decided to watch a number of them to reminice and remember. Tonight G and I were watching some of the earliest Disney cartoons, including the infamous Steamboat Willie.
It is funny how often something happens in the old cartoons you probably would not see in today's cartoons. Characters chewing tobacco, or Minnie's under garments getting caught in a hook and then used to suspend her in the air for example. The obsession that both Mick and Pete (Micky's frequent adversary) seem to have with getting Minnie to kiss them, sometimes trying to force her to kiss them, is something you just would not see in a cartoon today. Mickey was a hot dog vendor in one of the cartoons and the hot dogs could dance and do tricks (like dogs) and then upon command would rub their "butts" in mustard and jump into sandwich bread. Then when the one hot dog was disobedient, Mickey pulled back the casing and spanked it on the "butt". G was appalled. She was appalled several times. I find it all fascinating how things that were not appropriate then are more accepted today, and other things are not appropriate today but were totally okay then. It may seem like we're more and more accepting across the board, but really things like sexual harassment and political correctness act to take us in the other direction at the same time. It is not so simple.
What did tickle our fancy with each cartoon was hearing "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" song at the opening credits. I like the sped up version (above) but you can hear the original too (below). And what a coincidence that we are considering getting some chickens. (More fowl things to come on that later!)
Here are the words if you want to sing along …but not me …at least not in public…
I'm the guy they call little Mickey Mouse
Got a sweetie down in the chicken house
Neither fat nor skinny
She's the horse's whinny
She's my little Minnie Mouse!
When it's feedin' time for the animals
And they howl and growl like the cannibals
I just turn my heel to the henhouse steal
And you'll hear me sing this song
Oh, the old tomcat with the meow, meow, meow!
Ol' hound dog with the bow-wow-wow!
The crow's caw-caw!
And the mule's hee-haw!
Gosh what a racket like an ol' buzz saw!
I have listened to the cuckoo cuke his coo-coo!
And I've heard the rooster cock his doodle doo-oo
With the cows and the chickens
They all sound like the dickens when I hear my little Minnie's Yoo-Hoo!
PS: It is Minnie's "Yoo Hoo", "Hoo Hoo", though that would be funny too. Inappropriate but funny.
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- Tom Adams – "John Hardy"
- James Cromwell – "If I Had Words"
- Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan – "Jarabe Tapatío"
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Click here for more info on Carl Stalling and Walt Disney – Mickey's Follies – "Minnie's Yoo Hoo".
The DVD may be purchased here… Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Black and White
Album of the Week: Danny Elfman – "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
2009/10/25Track 3: This is Halloween:
Disney's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" set a new standard for Halloween songs when it came out, and I am still awaiting a collection of songs to match it. "This Is Halloween" is hard to beat on its own. The soundtrack is jam packed with Halloween imagery and uses tons of musical devices related to the holiday. Many artists have covered various songs from the soundtrack too e.g. Marilyn Manson's excellent version of "This Is Halloween":
This album (and movie) are a "must have" in my book. It may just be the pinnacle of Halloween culture in both film and sound. With the Christmas references, it makes an excellent soundtrack and movie all through the months of October and November, and is sure to delight anyone who likes Halloween, young and old alike. It even has a love story wrapped into it, if you're into the whole Franken-Babe – Dead Guy romance thing.
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "This is Halloween" being my favorite.
Track 3: This Is Halloween
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvdAJYvofI
Track 4: Jack's Lament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1HX80u5x4
Track 6: What's This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuWD-mSUtrU
Track 13: Oogie Boogie's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0aoVpFCDw
Track 14: Sally's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFy3gPzuGQc
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Click here for more info on Danny Elfman – "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Soundtrack.
The MP3 album may be purchased here… Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack
Leopold Stokowski – "Night on Bald Mountain" (1940)
2009/10/19
Although this arrangement is loosely based on the original by Modest Mussorgsky, it is the one most people know from Disney's Fantasia. It also frequently comes to my mind as an ideal Halloween song, though I might have been influenced by the animation when I was a wee lad.
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The MP3 may be purchased here… Leopold Stokowski - Walt Disney's Fantasia Soundtrack
