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Wasted on you lyrics summer walker11/20/2023 It is difficult to overstate the importance of the soundtracks for these films. Pinocchio (1940) Featuring the voice of Christian Rub as Geppetto (Photo: Disney)īut many of the best-known Disney songs come from the second wave of classic cartoons, towards the end of the 20 th century – such as The Little Mermaid(1989), Hercules (1997), The Lion King (1994) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Then came Cinderella (1950), where songs like “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” enlivened our understanding of specific characters, and – following a few years of less musically significant films – The Jungle Book (1967), which counted “I Wanna Be Like You” and “The Bare Necessities” among its hits. It was followed by the likes of Pinocchio (1940) – whose most famous song “When You Wish Upon a Star” not only won an Oscar but became a jazz standard – and Bambi (1942), which used a colourful orchestral soundtrack to bring life to the evocative images of the forest. Snow White was a huge hit – at the box office, it quickly became the most successful non-silent film of all time. Disney songs are now in the canon of all-time classics, soundtracking car journeys, summer holidays, Instagram reels, weddings and funerals. But it laid the foundation for a quintessential Disney style – one that transfixes listeners with compelling narrative lyrics and melodic earworms. It has warbling choirs, fuzzy strings and a sense of emotional restraint, all of which is emphasised by the inferior recording quality. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated film (Photo: Disney)īeing written in 1938, the soundtrack to Snow White is virtually unrecognisable from the Disney soundtracks of today. From then on, Disney didn’t just make films – it made musicals. “Really, we should set a new pattern, a new way to use music,” he said, “weave it into the story so somebody doesn’t just burst into song.” Thus, with Disney’s first feature-length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarves – which was also the first-ever feature-length animation – there also came the first-ever movie soundtrack, featuring songs like “Someday My Prince Will Come” and “Heigh Ho”. Although the Silly Symphonies had sound and melody, it still felt separate from the cartoon. The Silly Symphonies were constructed around music – short cartoons set to pieces of music that constituted a fully formed five minutes of entertainment.īut Disney wasn’t satisfied. After making short cartoon reels under the Alice Comedies, 27 further mini-movies about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and in 1928, inventing Mickey Mouse, Walt saw a film with sound – and decided he wanted to branch out. It was six years after Walt Disney founded the studio with his brother, Roy, that the company started producing their “Silly Symphonies”. So what is it that makes this music work? Written by a host of composers including Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken, Elton John and Lin-Manuel Miranda, Disney’s illustrious back catalogue of musical cartoon soundtracks has topped charts, filled stages, and swelled hearts for decades on end, and endures in the same way as classic pop songs. Frozen’s “Let It Go” has become one of the best known Disney songs (Photo: Walt Disney Feature Animation)Įven the inclusion of “It’s a Small World”, “Let It Go” and “Under the Sea” in the same paragraph can show the sporadic breadth of the Disney canon. Over the past century the franchise has created not only some of the most famous films of the century, but some of the most memorable tunes. ![]() Disney Brothers Cartoon Studios was founded on this day in 1923 just as the characters and visuals have defined and pioneered animation styles for 100 years, creating a huge catalogue of iconic movies, so too have the soundtracks to these films created a rich genre. The enduring love of Disney among children and certain factions of adults is as much about the music as the films. The former alone has surely made casualties out of thousands of Amazon Echoes across the country. Although this is a particularly irritating example, if you have ever had small children, or indeed, been a child yourself, there is a whole legion of songs about which you might feel similarly, from “Let It Go” to “Under the Sea”. ![]() ![]() Round and round it goes, the melody going up and up and up until eventually it comes back down again. ![]() If you’ve ever been subjected to the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland – which, of course, involves having the song stuck in your head for the succeeding four years – you may not have been in the mood to pause for reflection.
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