Think About Your Troubles and Me and My Arrow from The Point.
Oh, and I’m Checking In and Canyonaro. Both from The Simpsons.
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They fight and bite,
They fight and fight and bite,
Fight fight fight
Bite bite bite…
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as evidenced by “The Day The Violence Died” where they did the last episode of I&S
They fought and bit,
They fought and fought and bit.
Fought fought fought
Bit Bit Bit…
For sheer stick-in-your-memory value, I’ve always loved “I Love to Singa”, the song which lent its title to a classic WB/Tex Avery Jazz Singer tribute with little “Owl Jolson” who defied his traditional mama and papa to follow his heart.
In searching for more info on this, I’ve learned that this song was actually originally performed by Cab Calloway, and was featured in a 1936 Jolson picture entitled “The Singing Kid”. I find myself singing this one to Baby tlw from time to time.
Howzabout “Clint Eastwood” by Gorillaz? Can I nominate that?
What a wonderful phrase!
Seriously, Sarah MacLachlan’s When She Loved Me from Toy Story II even gets me choked up.
“I Wanna Be Like You” - King Louis (Louis Prima) Jungle Book
“What’s This?” - Skeleton Jack (Danny Elfman) Nightmare Before Christmas
Some good choices in here. For “Schoolhouse Rock,” though, I’d say it’s a tie between “Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla” (thank you, pronouns!) or “Verb (That’s What’s Happening)”.
The Bedrock “Twitch” song is another good choice.
But my vote goes to “Don’t Put Marbles In Your Nose,” from “Home Movies,” if only for the accompanying Quiet Riot-style video.
“Don’t put marbles in your nose
Put them in there
Do not put them in there”
I love “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas, such beautiful imagery.
And the “Boot Camp” song from Mulan…“Make a Man Out of You?” Is that it?
What’s Opera Doc is good, of course, but The Rabbit of Seville is far better, IMHO:
Hey yeeeew!
Welcome to my shop!
Let me cut your mop
Let me shave your crop!
Dain-tily
Dain-tily
Hey you!!
Don’t look so perplexed
Why must you be vexed?
Can’t you see you’re next
Yes. You’re next, you’re so next!
How about a nice close shave
Teach your whiskers to behave
Lotsa lather, lotsa soap
Please hold still, don’t be a dope!
Now we’re ready for the scraping
there’s no use to try escaping
Yell and scream and rant and rave
It’s no use you need a shave!
There. You’re nice and clean.
Although…your face looks like it mighta
gone t’rough a…ma…chine.
OR, how about the one with Bugs vs Giovanni Jones?
Bugs:
She’s a fancy stepper when she dances
Go and see her as she kippers and prances
My gal don’t do much talking
Dances even when she’s walking
Giovanni, unable to contain himself bursts in:
One and two and three and four she dances all day long
Bugs:
Oh my gal is a high part stepper
Ginger with salt and pepper
She’s a fancy stepper when she dances
Go and see her as she kippers and prances
Then, of course, Giovanni squishes Bugs’s head in the harp.
What’s weird is that the lyrics are a HUGE improvement over the original ragtime tune
Fenris
IIRC, it’s “Be A Man”. The song’s nice, but you really have to see it in context (with the animation) for the full effect.
(And yes, “When She Loved Me” was from Toy Story II)
This is actually the closing theme to each episode, and it appears in The Front, followed by a Steven J. Cannell send-up.
Hell Yeah!!! Totally forgot. Great movie.
It’s better than Heavy Metal, although that had some good songs too…
Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Devo - Working in a Coalmine
and so forth
This is one of my favoritest CDs. I had to buy another one because me and the kids killed the first one. P.S. it’s called just plain old Saturday Morning.
About La Vida es una Lenteja-- does anybody know the words to this song. My Spanish is very, very rusty and I can only catch a few phrases here and there (La vida es una lenteja-- o la toma o la deja. . .). Maybe a better question would be does anybody know this song at all besides me?
Hunchback is definitely not my favorite of the big Disney musicals. But that song… I still get chills every time I hear it.
“It’s not my fault
(Mea culpa)
If in God’s plan,
(Mea culpa)
He made the devil so much
Stronger than a man!”
Folks:
You’re all missing one of the most beautiful songs that’s ever been written:
When You Wish Upon A Star
Sung by Jiminy Cricket in the 1940 Disney Film Pinocchio.
Performed by Cliff Edwards, also known as Ukulele Ike.
No, not THAT Ukulele Ike…
Happy Happy Joy Joy
I vote for George George George of the Jungle
The song was better than the cartoon.
Whatever feelings people have about the Disney animated features (and there are a lot of strong feelings both ways), there’s a long tradition of good, if not exceptional music that’s been written for them. The entire soundtrack of The Little Mermaid was excellent, and let’s not forget the memorable songs from the old animated features: from just for fun, such as “The Bear Necessities” from The Jungle Book and “Under the Sea” from * The Little Mermaid* to the wistfully sad such as Dumbo’s “Baby Mine.” (My wife always cries during that song).
I know that people love the Animaniacs’ geography songs, but my personal favorite is “I am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual.” I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that one.
And I would like this topic to be expanded to “Best Song Sung by a Cartoon or Non-Human character” so that I can nominate “The Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie. Besides, “The Best Song Sung by a Puppet” would be a pretty limited category.
Are you sure…
‘Rubber Ducky’ by Ernie
‘The Muppet Show Tonight’
‘Not Easy Being Green’