History of Disney music
"There's a terrific power to music. You can run any of these pictures and they'd be dragging and boring, but the minute you put music behind them, they have life and vitality they don't get any other way." -Walt Disney
Walt Disney's contributions to animation and entertainment is well known by everyone. It is believed that ever since the creation of Mickey Mouse the world has not been the same. Although his contributions to animation and entertainment in general is widely known he has made a very influential music style himself. It was told that Walt Disney was not a person who was successful in playing instruments , but he had many ideas and visions of what he wanted.He did not write many of the music nor did he read it. He instead was a promoter. In order to make his visions a reality he gathered composers, writers, artists and musicians. Although many people do not know who exactly composed some of the songs such as "Heigh-Ho" (it was written by Larry Morey and Frank Churchill), people still recognize a Disney song from a normal song. Similar to now, even though it has been almost 50 years since Walt Disney's death we still hear new 'Disney Songs'. Songs that we know are from Disney animations.
"The music history did actually begin with Walt writing one song. He joined his then musical directory Carl Stalling (who then went on to do "Looney Tunes") and wrote the words to "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" and Stalling wrote the music. This is the only time Walt took and credit and writing music." (N/A, 2009) . Most of the music history started in 1937 when his first full length animated movie came out. This movie was Snow White and the seven dwarfs and is one of the most known Disney movies. The reason why most of the music history of Disney started here was because it was where all of the traditions of incorporating songs into animation started. Walt Disney did not want songs that didn't have any connections to the movie, regardless if it was a song the characters were singing or background music. Like Walt Disney said;
"We should set a new pattern, a new way to use music. Weave it into the story so somebody doesn't just burst into song."
This is the philosophy Walt followed for Disney music ever since.
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs song writers Frank Churchill and Larry Morey were in charge of making Walt Disney's vision come true. By the time they were done writing, they had written 25 different songs, out of which only 8 were featured in the movie. The movie was a big hit, and so was the music. This created the famous tradition of incorporating music into Disney films. Some Famous examples include, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi.
With the beginning of World War II, the productions of Disney films were put on hold. The effort that were previously put into making short films were put into war aid. Even after the war, Disney Productions did not go back to making animated features. Instead he concentrated on making multiple animated shorts. He called these package films. It was not until the year 1950 he released another animated feature. The first of this 'come back' film was Cinderella. It was also around this time where he decided to turn to a different set of musicians and Tin Pan Alley, which was the largest group of song publishers in the U.S at the time. "These were the people Walt used in his films Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians" (N/A, 2009).
"In the Disney music history, the '50s were the days of Tin Pan Alley and the '60s were the days of Richard and Robert Sherman"(N/A, 2009). Richard and Robert Sherman (brothers) wrote more than 200 songs, many of them being and have become classics. Some classics include, 'Its a Small World', songs from Winnie the Pooh, songs from 'The Jungle Book', songs from 'The Aristocats' and many more. Their most greatest contributions to Disney is 'Mary Poppins'. Two Academy awards were won, one for Best Song Score and 'Chim-Chim-Cheree' winning Best Song. The Sherman brothers were also the people who came up with the song everybody tried to learn 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. "" Mary Poppins proved also to be the top of Walt's career when he died on December 15, 1966." (N/A, 2009).
After Walt Disney's death people were very worried on how the studio could go on. Many aspects of Walt Disney's animation style had influenced the world, something great as this couldn't be taken away. The production studio continued to make featured animations. The only step back was the music in the animations created between the 70's and 80's did not play a massive role. Either there was very little of the songs itself or it didn't play an essential role of the story.
What is known to be the "Musical Renaissance" of Disney came to an end in 1988 with the release of 'Oliver and Company'. This was the first full length musical animation Disney had released in 10 years and with a very different from the previous style of music Disney followed. The music in the film was written by pop stars, hence the reason why it sounded like a pop song and not a classical song. After 'Oliver and Company' Alan Menken and Howard Ashman started working on 'The Little Mermaid', this marked the new Era for both Disney music and Disney animation. "They won an Academy Award for the song "Under the Sea" and that was only the beginning in what is certainly to be a great line of songs and scores." (N/A, 2009)
After 'The Little Mermaid' Disney music continued to follow a style, which in society now is referred to as a "Disney song" or "Disney Styled" songs. These songs which have been in these featured animations have since then continued to win all kinds of awards spreading and increasing the amount of Disney fans dramatically.
"The music history did actually begin with Walt writing one song. He joined his then musical directory Carl Stalling (who then went on to do "Looney Tunes") and wrote the words to "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" and Stalling wrote the music. This is the only time Walt took and credit and writing music." (N/A, 2009) . Most of the music history started in 1937 when his first full length animated movie came out. This movie was Snow White and the seven dwarfs and is one of the most known Disney movies. The reason why most of the music history of Disney started here was because it was where all of the traditions of incorporating songs into animation started. Walt Disney did not want songs that didn't have any connections to the movie, regardless if it was a song the characters were singing or background music. Like Walt Disney said;
"We should set a new pattern, a new way to use music. Weave it into the story so somebody doesn't just burst into song."
This is the philosophy Walt followed for Disney music ever since.
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs song writers Frank Churchill and Larry Morey were in charge of making Walt Disney's vision come true. By the time they were done writing, they had written 25 different songs, out of which only 8 were featured in the movie. The movie was a big hit, and so was the music. This created the famous tradition of incorporating music into Disney films. Some Famous examples include, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi.
With the beginning of World War II, the productions of Disney films were put on hold. The effort that were previously put into making short films were put into war aid. Even after the war, Disney Productions did not go back to making animated features. Instead he concentrated on making multiple animated shorts. He called these package films. It was not until the year 1950 he released another animated feature. The first of this 'come back' film was Cinderella. It was also around this time where he decided to turn to a different set of musicians and Tin Pan Alley, which was the largest group of song publishers in the U.S at the time. "These were the people Walt used in his films Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians" (N/A, 2009).
"In the Disney music history, the '50s were the days of Tin Pan Alley and the '60s were the days of Richard and Robert Sherman"(N/A, 2009). Richard and Robert Sherman (brothers) wrote more than 200 songs, many of them being and have become classics. Some classics include, 'Its a Small World', songs from Winnie the Pooh, songs from 'The Jungle Book', songs from 'The Aristocats' and many more. Their most greatest contributions to Disney is 'Mary Poppins'. Two Academy awards were won, one for Best Song Score and 'Chim-Chim-Cheree' winning Best Song. The Sherman brothers were also the people who came up with the song everybody tried to learn 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. "" Mary Poppins proved also to be the top of Walt's career when he died on December 15, 1966." (N/A, 2009).
After Walt Disney's death people were very worried on how the studio could go on. Many aspects of Walt Disney's animation style had influenced the world, something great as this couldn't be taken away. The production studio continued to make featured animations. The only step back was the music in the animations created between the 70's and 80's did not play a massive role. Either there was very little of the songs itself or it didn't play an essential role of the story.
What is known to be the "Musical Renaissance" of Disney came to an end in 1988 with the release of 'Oliver and Company'. This was the first full length musical animation Disney had released in 10 years and with a very different from the previous style of music Disney followed. The music in the film was written by pop stars, hence the reason why it sounded like a pop song and not a classical song. After 'Oliver and Company' Alan Menken and Howard Ashman started working on 'The Little Mermaid', this marked the new Era for both Disney music and Disney animation. "They won an Academy Award for the song "Under the Sea" and that was only the beginning in what is certainly to be a great line of songs and scores." (N/A, 2009)
After 'The Little Mermaid' Disney music continued to follow a style, which in society now is referred to as a "Disney song" or "Disney Styled" songs. These songs which have been in these featured animations have since then continued to win all kinds of awards spreading and increasing the amount of Disney fans dramatically.
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