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“Oh, Benjamin Harrison” is the boastful campaign song for the Republican
candidate in the period film musical The One and Only, Genuine,
Original Family Band (1968). Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman wrote
the rousing number, which was sung by a group of Dakota Republicans on
election night of 1888 as a response to the Democrats’ campaign song for
Grover Cleveland, titled “Let’s Put It Over with Grover.”
“Oh Fleecy Cloud” is the musical ode to nature written by Charles Wolcott
(music), T. Hee, and Erdman Penner (lyric) for the animated film The
Reluctant Dragon (1941). When the doddering knight Sir Giles (voice of
Claude Allister) comes upon the Dragon and learns that the passive creature
likes to write poetry, the knight shares one of his own odes with him,
talk-singing this bucolic poem with great rapture.
“Oh Sing, Sweet Nightingale” is the operatic aria by Al Hoffman, Mack
David, and Jerry Livingston that is used in contrasting ways in the animated
movie Cinderella (1950). The Ugly Stepsisters (voices of Rhoda Williams
and Lucille Bliss) practice vocalizing and playing the flute in the music
room, destroying the music and shattering the ears. At the same time,
Cinderella (Ilene Woods) is downstairs scrubbing the floor and singing the
same aria, her lovely voice lifting up like the soap bubbles rising from her
bucket. This was the first time the Disney artists used the technique of
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