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for happiness. Among the artists to record the cheerful song over the decades
are Mary Martin, Doris Day, Barbara Cook, and Barbara Hendricks
and the Abbey Road Ensemble.
“Without You” is the heartfelt torch song Andy Russell sings on the
soundtrack of the animated movie anthology Make Mine Music (1946).
The somber German ballad “Bis ans Ende der Welt,” by Osvaldo Farrés
(music) and Ralph Maria Siegel (lyric), was given a smooth English
lyric by Ray Gilbert for the film. The sorrowful lover is never seen in the
sequence, but instead a letter and views of nature are illustrated to give
the mood of the piece, the raindrops distorting the picture at times, as if
tears were obstructing the view. Russell made a recording of the ballad
and it found success.
“The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers” is the eccentric, boastful song
written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman for the Oscar-winning film
short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968). Tigger (voice of Paul
Winchell), a toy tiger who likes to bounce, enters the Hundred Acre Wood
singing this less-than-humble tribute to himself, celebrating being who he is
because he’s the only one of his kind. The melody is as full of bounce as the
character, and the lyrics are witty, full of nonsensical internal rhyme and joyous
exclamations. The number became Tigger’s personal theme song, popping
up in subsequent Winnie the Pooh shorts, such as Winnie the Pooh and
Tigger Too! (1974), and in the feature film The Tigger Movie (2000), where
Tigger (Jim Cummings) reprises the number at the beginning of the movie.
“The Wonderful World of Color” is the soaring theme song for the television
series Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, which premiered on NBC
in 1961. Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman wrote the resplendent number,
sung by a studio chorus, which welcomes viewers to a television world of color
as fireworks explode around the castle at Disneyland. Most viewers watching
the new show did not have color TV sets, but even in black and white the
graphics were impressive, and audiences could imagine what it must look like
in color. Some cultural historians cite this program as a major reason many
Americans purchased their first color television sets in the 1960s, which must
have pleased the show’s sponsor, the television manufacturer RCA.
“Woody’s Roundup” is the pastiche cowboy song written by Randy Newman
for the movie sequel Toy Story 2 (1999). When Woody (voice of Tom
Hanks) discovers all the memorabilia from his 1950s television show, it