#afis100years100songs — Public Fediverse posts

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" ( ) is a song and single from the 1964 #Disney musical film #MaryPoppins. It was written by the #ShermanBrothers, and sung by #JulieAndrews and #DickVanDyke. It also appears in the 2004 #stageShowVersion. Because Mary Poppins was a period piece set in 1910, songs that sounded similar to songs of the period were wanted. The movie version finished at #36 in #AFIs100Years100Songs survey of top tunes in #AmericanCinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihNRTTcztQ

"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by #AllieWrubel with lyrics by #RayGilbert for the #Disney 1946 #liveAction and #animated #movie #SongOfTheSouth, sung by #JamesBaskett. For "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the film won the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong and was the second Disney song to win this award, after "#WhenYouWishUponAStar" from #Pinocchio (1940). In 2004, it finished at number 47 in #AFIs100Years100Songs, a survey of top tunes in American cinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY

"Do-Re-Mi" is a #showTune from the 1959 #RodgersAndHammerstein musical #TheSoundOfMusic. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger #TrudeRittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song. The tune finished at #88 in #AFIs100Years100Songs survey of the top tunes in American cinema in 2004.
https://youtu.be/pLm07s8fnzM

"Do-Re-Mi" is a #showTune from the 1959 #RodgersAndHammerstein musical #TheSoundOfMusic. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger #TrudeRittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song. The tune finished at #88 in #AFIs100Years100Songs survey of the top tunes in American cinema in 2004.
https://youtu.be/pLm07s8fnzM