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“HEFFALUMPS AND WOOZLES” 75
sings the pathetically charming song on the streets of Sweethaven when she
finds out that Popeye loves her. As her awkward voice happily climbs the
musical scale, all the neighbors slam their windows shut, and Olive goes
into an odd, disarming dance solo that is like a cartoon come alive.
“The Headless Horseman” is a dandy narrative ballad about the mysterious
phantom who haunts Sleepy Hollow in the animated film The Adventures
of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Gene de Paul and Don Raye wrote
the evocative number, which is sung by Bing Crosby and the Rhythmaires
on the soundtrack while the brawny Brom Bones tells the story to the fearful
schoolmaster Ichabod Crane in order to scare him out of town.
“The Healing of a Heart” is the pop ballad about forgiveness and coming
through adversity written by Marcus Hummon for the animated video
sequel Bambi II (2006). Anthony Callea sings the smooth number over the
final credits of the video, the lyric commenting on the difficult relationship
between the young Bambi and his father.
“Heaven’s Light/Hellfire” is the contrasting song combination by Alan
Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyric) from the animated film The
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). When the lonely hunchback Quasimodo
(voice of Tom Hulce) receives a friendly smile from the gypsy girl Esmerelda,
his heart is filled with the kind of glow he has seen in others who are in love.
This airy ballad is then overtaken by the prayer of the sinister judge Frollo
(Tony Jay), who lusts after Esmerelda and wants her destroyed if he cannot
have her. “Hellfire,” with its Latin chanting by priests in the background, the
lyric’s many references to Frollo’s burning desire, and the sensual graphics
as Frollo sees the voluptuous Esmerelda in the fire of his imagination, is perhaps
the most erotic scene to be found in any Disney animated film.
“Heffalumps and Woozles” is the musical nightmare experienced by
Winnie the Pooh in the Oscar-winning movie short Winnie the Pooh and
the Blustery Day (1968). Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman wrote the
slightly menacing number about fantastic creatures (somewhat resembling
elephants and weasels) that haunt Pooh’s dreams when he is asleep. The
Mellomen sing the eerie song on the soundtrack, and it is not unlike the
“Pink Elephants on Parade” sequence in Dumbo (1941), though less frightening
and surreal. The song’s nightmarish creatures later inspired the animated
feature film Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (2005) and the made-for-video
film Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005).