"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is sung at some point in Paul McCartney's film, Give My Regards to Broad Street. This song is used in Splash Mountain, a log flume ride based on Song of the South at Disneyland in California, Magic Kingdom in Florida, and Tokyo Disneyland in Japan. The song was performed by Muppet bunnies (and nearly ruined by a monstrous Alan Arkin) in an 1980 episode of The Muppet Show. The song is also the Departure melody of platform 1 of Maihama Station in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. The song is referenced in the 1970 tune, Truckin' by the Grateful Dead ("Truckin', got my chips cashed in / Keep truckin', like the do-dah man"). Bluebird's on my shoulder"), epitomized by the " bluebird of happiness", as a symbol of cheer. It is one of many popular songs that features a bluebird ("Mr.
This version was sung by the following people: įor many years the song was part of an opening theme medley for the Wonderful World of Disney television program and it has often been used in other TV and video productions by the studio, including being sung as an audition piece by a series of children in the Disney film Life with Mikey. The song was included on the only album the group ever recorded, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, issued on the Philles Records label. Their song also peaked at number 45 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. Soxx & the Blue Jeans took their version of the song to number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 7 on the Hot R&B Singles chart. Phil Spector said, 'Leave it like that, it's great.' Some years later everyone started to try to copy that sound and so they invented the fuzz box." The song also marked the first time his Wall of Sound production formula was fully executed.
According to the Beatles' George Harrison: "When Phil Spector was making 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah', the engineer who's set up the track overloaded the microphone on the guitar player and it became very distorted. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, a Phil Spector-produced American rhythm and blues trio from Los Angeles, recorded "Zip-a-Dee Doo-Dah" using the Wrecking Crew in late 1962. " Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Heart"īob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans singles chronology Soxx & the Blue Jeans version "Zip-a-Dee Doo-Dah"īob B.
The flip side of the record was "Everybody Has a Laughing Place", from the same movie and by the same composers.
8 hit with their rendition of the song in December 1946.
The song is likely influenced by the chorus of the pre- Civil War folk song " Zip Coon", a " Turkey in the Straw" variation: "Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day". In 2004, it finished at number 47 in AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs, a survey of top tunes in American cinema.ĭisney historian Jim Korkis said the word "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" was reportedly invented by Walt Disney, who had a fondness for these types of nonsense words from " Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" to " Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". For "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was the second Disney song to win this award, after " When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940). " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert for the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie Song of the South, sung by James Baskett. 1946 song composed by Allie Wrubel "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"