![]() ![]() "You Can Fly!" is the only song from Peter Pan and it's also the only one of the eight selections that can be readily given "classic" status. Just over three months ago, four park-themed volumes made a fairly low-key DVD debut and now four movie song compilations are doing the same.ĭespite what the front cover art and extended title would have you believe, Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly! - Peter Pan is not the next best thing to tracking down an out of print Special Edition or Limited Issue disc of the 1953 animated classic. Apparently, Disney feels that now is the time to revisit these dated Sing Alongs from the past two decades. Eighteen years after debuting on VHS, this last pair is resurfacing for its first appearance on DVD, where new entries to the Sing Along Songs canon are now Two others soon followed - The Bare Necessities and You Can Fly - with song names and cover imagery taken from two of the more popular Walt-era animated classics, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan. animated/live action hybrid Song of the South, came second. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, taking its title from the never-released-to-video-in-the-U.S. Appropriately enough, the series was launched with a volume titled Heigh-Ho and inspired by Walt Disney's first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. And so, the Sing Along Songs line was born, providing half-hour compilations of animated lyrics-accompanied musical numbers from Disney films (and later elsewhere) in places where there previously had been none. It appears on the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons as track 49.In the late 1980s, having finally begun issuing its animated classics to home video, the Disney studio sought to make new waves in the lucrative VHS market. ![]() Ī parody called “We Love To Smoke”, sung by Julie Kavner as Patty and Selma Bouvier, was intended to be used in the episode “ Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious” of The Simpsons, but was cut from the episode. Neither this song or Uncle Albert are featured in the 2004 stage musical version. This musical number also appears in the Sing-Along Songs series of Disney videos. Wigg, is said to float because of an excess of " laughing gas", although it is clear that the term is not used in the chemical sense. In the book, Mary's Uncle Albert, also called Mr. The scene is based on the chapter "Laughing Gas" in the book Mary Poppins by P.L. It is later stated by his son ( Arthur Malet) that he died while laughing. (Dick Van Dyke) starts laughing from the "wooden leg named Smith" joke, and starts floating around the boardroom. Ī snippet of the song plays again near the end of the film when Mr. The song states a case strongly in favor of laughter, even if Mary Poppins appears to disapprove of Uncle Albert's behavior, especially since it not only complicates the task of getting Albert down, but the infectious mood sends Bert and the Banks children into the air as well. (Compare Peter Pan's flight power, which is also powered by happy thoughts.) Conversely, thinking of something sad literally brings Albert and his visitors "down to earth" again. The premise of the scene, that laughter and happiness cause Uncle Albert (and like-minded visitors) to float into the air, can be seen as a metaphor for the way laughter can "lighten" a mood. The song is sung in the film by "Uncle Albert" ( Ed Wynn), and "Bert" ( Dick Van Dyke) as they levitate uncontrollably toward the ceiling, eventually joined by Mary Poppins ( Julie Andrews) herself. "I Love to Laugh", also called " We Love to Laugh", is a song from Walt Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins which was composed by Richard M. Song by Dick Van Dyke, Ed Wynn and Julie Andrewsįrom the album Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack ![]() 1964 song by Dick Van Dyke, Ed Wynn and Julie Andrews "I Love to Laugh" ![]()
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