The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

204 “TONKA”
poetic ballad about sharing the joy of a rainbow with someone who means
something special to you. Just like the image of two mice soaring into the
sunset on the back of the albatross Orville, the song is also very uplifting
and lyrical.
“Tonka” is the western-flavored title song for the 1958 movie about a Sioux
youth (Sal Mineo) who tames a wild colt he names Tonka Wakan, meaning
“The Great One.” A studio chorus sings the narrative ballad over the opening
credits, praising the proud and courageous horse who took part in the
Battle of the Little Big Horn. The number, which has a Native American
tribal flavor to it, was written by George Bruns (music) with a lyric by Gil
George (pseudonym for Hazel George, who was a studio nurse and a longtime
confidante of Walt Disney).
“Too Cool” is the venomous character song sung by camp diva Tess Tyler
(Meaghan Martin) in the made-for-television musical Camp Rock (2008).
Tess performs the pop music number, written by Toby Gad and Pam
Sheyne, at a camp bonfire, where she asserts her power and popularity
while reminding her competition that she is too cool to be associating with
them.
“Too Good to Be True” is the dreamy love song Buddy Kaye and Eliot
Daniel wrote for the “Bongo” sequence in the animated anthology movie
Fun and Fancy Free (1947). The circus bear Bongo meets and falls in love
with the coquettish bear Lulu Belle in the forest, and in their imagination
they float and frolic together through the clouds. On the soundtrack, Dinah
Shore and a studio chorus sing the ballad about finding someone who is
more like a dream than reality. The number is reprised at the end of the
story when Bongo defeats the bully bear Lumpjaw and wins Lulu Belle’s
love.
“A Toot and a Whistle and a Plunk and a Boom” is the swinging theme
song for the animated film short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953),
which explains the origins of the major ingredients to create music. Sonny
Burke and Jack Elliott wrote the jazzy number, which is sung by a studio
chorus on the soundtrack at the beginning and the end of the movie, celebrating
the four ways to make noises that can be turned into music.
“Topsy Turvy” is the festive song from the animated movie The Hunchback
of Notre Dame (1996) that turns ugly for the unfortunate Quasimodo.