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“PERFECT WORLD” 157
(Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten) about why coyotes howl, and then the
animated tall tale of Pecos Bill is told. As a boy he is raised in the desert
by coyotes. After he loses his sweetheart, Slue-Foot Sue, he returns to his
animal friends and in his misery bays at the moon.
“The Penguin Is a Very Funny Creature” is the barbershop quartet
number Leigh Harline wrote for the animated Silly Symphony movie short
Peculiar Penguins (1934). Fifty million arctic birds live on Penguin Island,
and their strangely humanlike behavior is the subject of this harmonizing
song, sung by the Disney Studio Singers on the soundtrack.
“A Perfect Day” is the optimistic song about happy endings that concludes
the animated made-for-video film The Adventures of Tom Thumb and
Thumbelina (2002). The tiny hero Tom Thumb and his sweetheart, Thumbelina,
finally arrive at a village of diminutive citizens and are reunited with
their families. William Finn wrote the frolicsome number, which is sung on
the soundtrack by Bob Poynton as the little lovers wed and take off for their
honeymoon at the end of the video.
“Perfect Isn’t Easy” is the decadent “I am” song for the pampered poodle
Georgette (voice of Bette Midler) in the animated film version of Oliver
Twist, titled Oliver & Company (1988). Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman,
and Jack Feldman wrote the amusing character song in which the wealthy
Manhattan pet laments the trials of being perfect, her indifferent yawns
turning into canine screeches of pleasure.
“The Perfect Nanny” is the simple and childlike advertisement for a
nanny that the two young Banks children write and sing in the movie musical
Mary Poppins (1964). Having been saddled with mean and ugly nannies,
Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael Banks (Matthew Garber) write a
newspaper ad asking for a kind, pretty, and understanding nanny who likes
to play games and will love them as if they were her own children. The
sweet, sincere ditty, by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, was sung in
the 2004 London stage version of Mary Poppins by Charlotte Spencer and
Harry Stott, and in the 2006 Broadway production by Katherine Doherty or
Katheryn Faughnan and Matthew Gumley or Henry Hodges.
“Perfect World” is the Las Vegas–like production number sung by the
Elvis look-alike lounge singer Theme Song Guy (voice of Tom Jones) in the
satiric animated movie The Emperor’s New Groove (2000). David Hartley