The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

“LAZY COUNTRYSIDE” 113
“Lambert, the Sheepish Lion” is the playful title song by Eddie Pola and
George Wyle that is used throughout the 1952 animated film short about a
lion raised by sheep. A studio chorus sings the bouncy number about how a
stork (voice of Sterling Holloway, who did the vocals for the same stork in
the earlier film Dumbo) delivers the baby lion Lambert to a ewe. The song
is reprised by the baby lambs and the stork as they make fun of Lambert,
who does not fit in with the rest of the flock. The number is heard again at
the end of the film after Lambert saves his mother from a hungry wolf and
everyone rejoices.
“Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)” is the simple but unforgettable ditty Larry
Morey and Eliot Daniel fashioned from a seventeenth-century English folk
song to be used in the nostalgic movie So Dear to My Heart (1948). The
blacksmith Uncle Hiram (Burl Ives, in his film debut) plays the guitar and
sings the childlike song of affection to Granny Kincaid (Beulah Bondi),
Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll), and Tildy (Luana Patten) in the farmhouse one
evening after supper. The Oscar-nominated song was recorded by Ives
(with Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers) and by Dinah Shore, and each
had a hit with it. Records were also made by Sammy Kaye (vocal by the
Three Kaydets), Jack Smith, Sammy Turner, Mary Martin, Ashley Brown,
and Barbara Cook. Vera Lynn sang the number in the film A Safe Place
(1971).
“Laws of Motion” is the disco-flavored rock song written by Brock Walsh
for the innovative but short-lived television musical series Hull High (1990).
High school students in science class studying the universe break into a
production number, singing about moving together as a force of nature.
The vibrant number was choreographed by Kenny Ortega, who later found
greater fame staging similar numbers in High School Musical (2006) and
its sequels.
“Lazy Countryside” is the dreamy lullaby by Bobby Worth that is used
in the “Bongo” sequence in the animated anthology film Fun and Fancy
Free (1947). On the soundtrack, Dinah Shore and a female chorus sing
the smooth and lulling number about relaxing and enjoying nature while
the performing bear Bongo, who has escaped from the circus, enjoys his
freedom in the wilderness and frolics with small animals and lounges in the
tall, soft grass.