The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

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in honor of his new American friend Hank (Dean Jones), convincing him to
stop worrying about making money and to enjoy life.
“JoJo’s Circus Theme Song” is the lite-rock song by Stuart Kollmorgen
that welcomes children to the stop-motion animated television series JoJo’s
Circus (2003) on Playhouse Disney. A chorus of children sings the happy
number on the soundtrack, promising fun to follow as the clown JoJo and
his friends arrive in town with the circus. The series and the opening song
are reminiscent of the children’s show Dumbo’s Circus (1985), which entertained
kids two decades earlier.
“Jolly Holiday” is the resplendent song by Richard M. and Robert B.
Sherman from the movie musical Mary Poppins (1964) that provides one
of filmdom’s finest sequences of live action mixed with animation. British
nanny Mary (Julie Andrews) and her two charges (Karen Dotrice and Matthew
Garber) join sidewalk artist Bert (Dick Van Dyke) as they jump into
one of his chalk drawings and experience a fun-filled holiday in animation.
At an outdoor café staffed by penguin waiters, Bert sings that a day outing
with Mary is like a holiday, and she returns the compliment in song
and dance. After doing an ingenious dance with the penguins, Bert joins
Mary and the children on a merry-go-round where the horses break loose
and dash across the countryside, Mary’s horse coming in first place in a
race. The song is happy and carefree, with the flavor of an old vaudeville
soft-shoe routine. In the 2004 London stage version of Mary Poppins, the
number was performed in a fantasy park in which Bert (Gavin Lee), Mary
(Laura Michelle Kelly), and the children were joined by a group of dancing
statues come to life. In the 2006 Broadway production, Lee reprised his
Bert and sang the song with Ashley Brown (as Mary). Louis Prima and Gia
Maione made a notable duet recording of the song.
“Jolly Rovers” is the hand-clapping, knee-slapping sing-along song written
by Stan Jones (music) and Lawrence Edgar Watkin (lyric) for Ten Who
Dared (1960), the adventure film about the men who first navigated and
mapped the Colorado River. As the men camp and rest on the shore of the
river one day, they sing this merry but incongruously maudlin ditty about
ten roving boys, each one meeting with a comedic and gruesome death.
“The Journey (Who Will Rescue Me?)” is moving ballad by Ayn Robbins
and Carol Connors that is heard in the opening sequence and credits