The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

2 “ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND”
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“Adventures in Wonderland” is the electronic-sounding, disco-flavored
theme song for the live-action television series Disney’s Adventures in
Wonderland (1992) about a contemporary Alice who enters a magical other
world. The vibrating song is sung by Sarah Taylor over the opening sequence
in which Alice (Elisabeth Harnois) floats across a surreal landscape
and meets characters from the Lewis Carroll books.
“A-E-I-O-U” is the musical mantra of the mysterious Caterpillar (voice of
Richard Haydn) in the animated film fantasy Alice in Wonderland (1951).
Oliver Wallace wrote the short and exotic song, which the Caterpillar sings
as he blows smoke from his hookah in the form of the vowels he chants. The
number is sometimes listed as “The Caterpillar Song.”
“After Today” is the slightly rocking song in which various teenagers look
forward to summer vacation in the animated film A Goofy Movie (1995).
Tom Snow (music) and Jack Feldman (lyric) wrote the rhythmic number
and it is sung by high-schooler Max (singing voice of Aaron Lohr) who vows
to no longer be such a goof and to win the heart of the pretty coed Roxanne.
Students on the bus, the sports field, and in school join in singing the catchy
song as they make their own plans for the day after school lets out.
“The Age of Not Believing” is the Oscar-nominated ballad about the loss
of a child’s innocence that Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman wrote for the
musical film fantasy Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). The friendly witch
Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury) and her youthful evacuees Carrie
(Cindy O’Callaghan) and Paul (Roy Snart) prepare a magic flying bed for
travel, but the eldest youth, Charlie (Ian Weighill), who is eleven going on
twelve years old, doubts her powers of sorcery. So Miss Price sings of the
age when a child starts to question everything and make-believe is coming
to an end. The music from the song is used throughout the movie every
time the magical bed travels. Christine Ebersole made a distinctive recording
of the bittersweet ballad in 2003.
“A La Nanita Nana” is a traditional Spanish folk song that was adapted and
arranged by David Lawrence for the television musical sequel The Cheetah
Girls 2 (2006). At a restaurant in Barcelona, the American singing stars Galleria
(Raven-Symoné), Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Aqua (Kiely Williams), and
Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan) listen to a guitarist play the gentle and flowing lullaby
and they sing it in Spanish from their tables with the singer Belinda.