There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow - They Might Be Giants

The DVD release of Meet the Robinsons is tomorrow so I thought I would post a song off the soundtrack. This version of the classic Disneyland song There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow is by THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.

There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow was used as the theme song to the Carousel of Progress attraction in Tomrrowland. People are taken through a rotating series of room that take you through history and the progression of technology. The last room is a look into the future and was constantly updated to keep up with the times. (Can you imagine visiting the Carousel in 1967 and seeing a look at 1994? That would be wild!)

Robert Sherman, one of the songs composers, has been quoted saying that this is Walt Disney's theme song

The theme song, Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, had a wonderful positiveness about it. In a way, it was Walt's theme song, because he was very positive about the future. He really felt that there was a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day.

In many ways, Meet the Robinsons was a spoof of Tomorrowland (calling it Todayland in the film) and the plot of the movie, a boy visiting the future, makes the inclusion of this song on its soundtrack very appropriate.

There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow They Might Be Giants 2007