The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

68 “GOOD NIGHT VALAIS”
narrative song recaps the plot of the film just viewed and concludes with
the happy ending covered by the press.
“Good Night Valais” is the delicate lullaby written by G. Haenni and
Tom Adair for the movie Third Man on the Mountain (1959), set in the
Swiss Alps. During a village festival, the town chorus of Kurtal sings the
sleepy number about putting a city to bed for the night. The lyric uses the
poetic metaphor of the sky becoming a jeweled cape wrapped around the
earth, and the dreamy melody is delicate, lulling the listener into a restful
slumber.
“Goodbye May Seem Forever” is the farewell song that Richard Rich
(music) and Jeffrey C. Patch (lyric) wrote for the animated film The Fox and
the Hound (1981). As the Widow Tweed (voice of Jeanette Nolan) drives
through the countryside, taking her pet fox Tod to the game reserve where
he will be safe, she talk-sings her thoughts about parting with her beloved
animal friend. A chorus picks up the song and sings it on the soundtrack as
the two part ways in the forest.
“Goodbye So Soon” is the light and breezy farewell song that is used for a
sinister purpose in the animated movie The Great Mouse Detective (1986).
Henry Mancini (music), Larry Grossman, and Ellen Fitzhugh (lyric) wrote
the mocking number and it is sung by the villain Ratigan (voice of Vincent
Price) on a phonograph record. In an elaborate device to kill the detective
Basil and his assistant, Dr. Dawson, Ratigan has attached a string to the arm
of the phonograph, and as the record plays, the string pulls a mechanism
that sets off a deadly set of weapons aimed at the two victims. The ending
of the song is not heard because Basil outwits Ratigan and stops the device.
A studio chorus reprises the number over the end credits of the film.
“Goodbye Song” is the up-tempo lullaby by Tyler Bunch that closes
each episode of the children’s television series Bear in the Big Blue House
(1997). At the end of the show, the oversized Muppet Bear (voice of Noel
MacNeal) asks the moon, Luna (Lynne Thigpen), to sing a farewell song,
and the two of them sing goodbye to viewers and promise to return again.
“Goof Troop” is the rocking title number from the 1992 animated television
series, a number that celebrates the father-son team of Goofy and
Max, who have adventures together, often to the embarrassment of the son.
Robert Irving, Randy Petersen, and Kevin Quinn wrote the very 1950s-like