“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 Song of the South is probably one of the greatest movie ever made. You can not get a copy – but I have one. Anytime a group would like to see it, just let me know. For “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was the second in a long line of Disney songs to win this award, after “When You Wish upon a Star” from Pinocchio (1940) In 2004 it finished at number 47 in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs, a survey of top tunes in American cinema. Disney historian Jim Korkis said the word “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” was reportedly invented by Walt Disney himself, who had a fondness for these types of nonsense words from “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” to “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” [2] 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”.[
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
