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“DIG IT” 41
the recording with odd sound effects and incongruous musical notes to create
a chaotic effect. The disc sold a million and a half copies and launched
Jones’s career. Renowned lyricist Oscar Hammerstein is quoted as saying
that the number was “the great psychological song of the war.”
“Destino” is the eerie and surreal title song from the mesmerizing and surreal
film short Walt Disney and artist Salvador Dali collaborated on in the
1940s but was not completed until sixty years later. Armando Dominguez
wrote the chanting, nearly wordless song about fate, and it is sung on the
soundtrack by Dora Luz while a female figure pursues a male statue over a
landscape of surreal monuments and shadows. Although work began on the
movie in 1946, it was abandoned by the end of the decade, and it was Roy
E. Disney who years later completed the small, weird masterwork and had
it shown at an international film festival in 2003.
“Detroit” is the musical tribute to the city where the automobile is king,
as expressed by the car-loving New Yorker Angie Duke (John Davidson)
in the period musical The Happiest Millionaire (1967). Richard M. and
Robert B. Sherman wrote the march-tempo number, which Angie sings to
his sweetheart, Cordelia (Leslie Ann Warren), as they ride in his new 1916
automobile, confessing his dream of going to Detroit someday and making
his name. She reprises the number a bit later in the film, reminding Angie
of his dream, and the two of them sing parts of the song again when they
decide to elope and go to Detroit.
“Different” is the musical first encounter between Tarzan (Josh Strickland)
and Jane Porter (Jenn Gambatese) in the 2006 Broadway version
of Tarzan. While the two make awkward and tentative attempts to communicate,
Tarzan’s thoughts are revealed: This new creature is not only
different from any other he has encountered, but it is causing his heart
to beat faster. Phil Collins wrote the clever duet, which is as funny as it
is romantic.
“Dig It” is the plodding rhythm-and-blues number about continuing to
search and not giving up, as featured in the movie Holes (2003). Young
inmates Armpit (Bryan Cotton), Zigzag (Max Kasch), X-Ray (Brenden Jefferson),
Zero (Khleo Thomas), and Stanley (Shia LaBeouf) are forced by
the warden at the desert detention center Camp Green Lake to continually
dig holes, and they sing this pulsating number as they dig in the sand for
seemingly no reason. The song, written by Mickey Petralia and the five cast