Silly Symphony - On the Record Cast
In 2004 Disney produced a Broadway musical that would feature over 70 over the songs from their ever impressive library. The musical was called Disney's On the Record and was about four young people who were brought together in a magical recording studio to record a compilation album. There's magic, there's romance, blah blah blah... but the most important part is that the soundtrack features two discs full of Disney cover songs!
Some of the songs don't stray far from the originals while others are quite different. Many are medleys, such as this one that I have posted today.
The main quartet on this soundtrack are Ashley Brown, Kaitlin Hopkins, Brian Sutherland, and Andrew Samonsky. Katlin Hopkins replaced Emily Skinner who was the original Diane for the live show.
This medley, dubbed the Silly Symphony, is made up of several Disney songs that feature nonsense lyrics. This medley is probably the best and most clever of all the songs in this musical!
It starts out with a verse from Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo and features the choruses from Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious (Mary Poppins), Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (Pinocchio), Following the Leader (Peter Pan), Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South) and Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (Cinderella). The best part of the song is when they start singing all of them AT THE SAME TIME! Brilliant!
Then, to top it off, they use The Dwarfs' Yodel Song (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) as a bridge! Perfect!
In the liner notes it says that Higitus Figitus (Sword in the Stone) is the first song in the medley, but I can't seem to hear any of it anywhere. If anyone can't help me out with this please leave a comment! UPDATE: Thanks to Jane Dark who let me know that the fanfare intro is the chorus to Higitus Figitus! It's so obvious to me now! I don't know how I missed that before!
Also thrown in there are tiny snippets from Chim Chim Cher-ee (Mary Poppins), Hakuna Matata (The Lion King), and the Mickey Mouse March (Mickey Mouse Club). Wow. They put that together very well. This is the best song in the show and a masterpiece of a cover song.
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Labels: bibbidi bobbidi boo, dwarfs yodel song, following the leader, hi diddle dee dee, on the record, showtunes, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, zip a dee doo dah
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I must have been in a vacuum, I've never even heard of this so-called musical! But wow, that is pretty awesome particularly the sing-all-at-once part.
Hey there! I've been reading your blog for a few months now, and I'm wondering if you (or your readers) would be interested in participating in a little survey I'm taking: I'm trying to get a list of the best covers of the 2000s. If you send me a list of your top 10, I'll compile the results and you might win a free CD/DVD! I hope you'll come check it out, and any exposure on your blog to get your readers to come join in would be great. Thanks.
http://berkeleyplace.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/in-prog-the-best-covers-of-the-century-so-far/
Higitus Figitus is in there -- well, sort of. That fanfare in triplets that they're using in their intro is the chorus line: "Higitus figitus migitus mum, prestidigitonium!"
But it's a pity: the verses for Higitus Figitus are a nice, jazzy little melody, and that line of ascending triplets is, well, not all that unique.
Someone OUGHT to cover HF, that's certain.
the iTunes link no longer works -- boo hooo!! pilgrim57@yahoo.com
This is definitely a cool idea for a song medley. I love the songs with silly lyrics :D
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