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Meredith Inglesby, Andy Karl, Tyler Maynard, and Keewa Nurullah. There
was also a recording by the Go-Gos in 2007.
“Let’s Go Fly a Kite” is the waltzing song of joy written by Richard M.
and Robert B. Sherman for the end of the film Mary Poppins (1964). Edwardian
father Mr. Banks (David Tomlinson) realizes it is time to enjoy life
and his own family and sings the joyous number with his wife (Glynis Johns)
and children (Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber) as they are joined by
other Londoners in the park, singing and flying kites. In the 2004 London
stage version of Mary Poppins, the number was sung by David Haig, Linzi
Hateley, and the company. Daniel Jenkins and Rebecca Luker led the cast
in singing it in the 2006 Broadway production. Burl Ives made a memorable
recording of the song, as did Louis Prima and Gia Maione in a duet
version.
“Let’s Have a Drink on It” is the frantic drinking song with a player piano–
like flavor written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman for the movie
musical The Happiest Millionaire (1967). The disillusioned Angie Duke
(John Davidson) breaks off his wedding engagement and goes to an Irish
bar in Philadelphia where the butler John Lawless (Tommy Steele) gets
him drunk. The two sing together and are later joined by the male patrons
in the bar, who partake in a vigorous dance as well. The number is reprised
at the end of the film when the millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (Fred
MacMurray) is made a captain in the Marine Corps and all his cronies join
him in celebrating the occasion.
“Let’s Put It Over with Grover” is the tuneful campaign song for candidate
Grover Cleveland prepared by the Nebraska Bower family for the
1888 Democratic Convention in the period movie musical The One and
Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968). Richard M. and Robert B.
Sherman wrote the brash number, sung by avid Democrat Grandpa Bower
(Walter Brennan), his Nebraska family (Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren,
and Janet Blair), and the grandchildren as they audition for a representative
from the convention. Grandpa reprises the number with the children on
the street when the family moves to Dakota, and it is heard a third time the
night of the election, when it is used in competition with the Republican
campaign song “Oh, Benjamin Harrison.”
“Let’s Sing a Gay Little Spring Song” is the chipper number by Frank
Churchill (music) and Larry Morey (lyric) that welcomes spring in the