The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

132 “THE MIGHTY DUCKS THEME”
list song is sung by Donna Fein over the opening credits while two college
bimbos on roller skates deliver invitations to a scavenger hunt that pits stereotypical
groups against each other for a night of madcap fun.
“The Mighty Ducks Theme” is the heavy-metal song by Patrick DeRemer
for the animated television series The Mighty Ducks (1996) about halfduck,
half-human hockey players who are also superheroes. The pounding
theme song tells viewers to clear the way, because the fearless band of
crime fighters is coming through.
“Mine, Mine, Mine” is the merry song of greed sung by the sinister
Governor Ratcliffe (voice of David Ogden Stiers) in the animated film
Pocahontas (1995). Alan Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyric)
wrote the sprightly number in which Ratcliffe urges his men to dig up
the Virginia countryside to find the gold that will make them famous and
rich. The song has a pseudo-Renaissance period flavor, complete with
“hey nonny” and a jig-like rhythm. As Ratcliffe sings, he has visions of
grandeur, including his presentation at the court and the king’s bestowing
a title on him. In contrast, Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson) sees Virginia
as a land of adventure and sings how the New World is his to make his
life complete. The song’s title refers to both possessions and to digging
up the land for gold.
“Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo” has the distinction of being the first Disney song to
be published, and it became popular long before it was sung in some Disney
film shorts. Walt Disney himself provided some of the lyric for the Carl W.
Stalling ditty, which praises Minnie and imitates various farm animals who
sing her praises as well. The number was written for the first Mickey Mouse
Clubs, actual clubs sponsored by local movie theatres that started in 1929,
which kids joined in different locations. The song was the official theme
song for the clubs and, using the sheet music, it was sung by kids across the
country. Mickey sang the playful number in the film short Mickey’s Follies
(1929), complete with the lyrics shown to encourage a sing-along, and the
next year the clip from the movie was distributed to the clubs. Over the years
the song was a favorite on Disney records, and in the 1970s it was played, in
a slightly speeded-up version, at the end of the television series The Mouse
Factory (1972). A quartet recording of the happy number was made by Meredith
Inglesby, Andy Karl, Tyler Maynard, and Keewa Nurullah, and Kerry
Butler made a playful version in 2008.