Love is a Song - Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Way back on August 13, 1942, Walt Disney released his fifth animated feature film, Bambi.

Although it did poorly in the box office, Bambi is considered to be a masterpiece movie, with the death of Bambi's mother being one of the most well known scenes in movie history!

Bambi received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound, Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Song for Love is a Song, written by Frank Churchill and Edward H. Plumb.

Like many elements of the film, Love is a Song touched many people emotionally. THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR performs this song with the same tenderness and compassion that made us fall in love with it in the first place.

Love is a Song Mormon Tabernacle Choir 1990

Little April Shower - Manna Fujiwara

Hey everyone. It's Jamie from Fong Songs once again. The track I'm featuring today is Little April Shower. The song was composed by Frank Churchill with lyrics by Larry Morey for Bambi, the fifth Disney animated feature released in 1942. The two of them had previously collaborated on several classic songs from Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs including Someday My Prince Will Come, Heigh Ho, and Whistle While You Work.

The cover is performed by MANNA FUJIWARA on the Japanese Disney cover album DISNEY AGE @ D_100 CAFE, a gem of a CD I found on eBay. If you weren't aware, they take Disney covers very seriously in Japan. Walt Disney Records Japan in conjunction with Avex Records releases a ton of exclusive albums featuring prominent artists (not necessarily Japanese) remixing and retooling classic Disney tracks. There's practically no information about Manna Fujiwara, but the first google hit is her IMDb filmography which only consists of one credit: Peter Greenaway's 8½ Women. Oddly enough, Fujiwara plays the ½ woman.

The cover is performed in a child-like manner, lullabye-like with lots of tinkly sounds and plucked harp strings. It turns a little sinister halfway as the little April shower threatens to turn into an angry storm, but it soon resolves itself as Fujiwara charmingly chants: "How I love to hear your patter,
Pretty little pitter patter,
Helter skelter when you pelter,
Troubles always seem to scatter"
Some ominous strings return near the end just to leave you slightly unsettled.

Little April Shower Manna Fujiwara 2001