Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah is a song written by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert and released in 1946. In 1948 he received the Oscar for Best Song .

Origin of the song

Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert wrote "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" for the film Uncle Remus' Wonderland ( Song of the South ), a 1946 production by The Walt Disney Company . It was Allie Wrubel's last big hit . Wrubel had previously written a number of other, mostly "carefree and lyrical" songs for Walt Disney films. "Allie Wrubel's broad, compelling melody allowed the lyrics to develop an idea of ​​a wonderful, sunny day." The Oxford Companion to the American Musical counts Wrubel's work with Ray Gilbert on Song of the South as one of his best songs. In the film Song of the South , the song was performed by James Baskett , who played the lead role of Uncle Remus .

The American Film Institute named it to the list of 100 Songs - America's Best Movie Songs .

Cover versions

In 1946 J. Lawrence Cook , Tony Pastor and Charlie Spivak recorded the song; From the 1940s onwards, Blue Barron , Luther Dickinson , Buddy Greco , Hoagy Carmichael , Neal Hefti , André Previn , Les Brown , Dick Hyman and Warren Vaché performed it in Europe a. a. also Eddie Brunner , Simon Brehm , Jerry Mengo and The Singers Unlimited (with Roger Kellaway ). In 1989 the Sun Ra Arkestra took on the song at its concert in the Ulrichsberg jazz studio . Tom Lord lists 30 cover versions of the title Phil Spector successfully produced a pop version in 1962 with the vocal group Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8 )
  2. ^ William Emmett Studwell: They also wrote: Evaluative Essays on lesser-known popular songwriters. 2000
  3. ^ Don Tyler, Music of the Postwar Era , 2008, 114
  4. ↑ Thomas S. Hischak: The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theater, Film, and Television . 2008
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 6, 2014)