What songs from children’s films do you love? Songs that you grew up with, songs that your kids listened to 596,326 times in the car, or songs that you discovered as an adult, but are technically from kids’ movies?
Thanks for sharing your inner child’s favorites with us, Deadsplinter.
I can still sing this:
me too!
teehee 😀 never getting bored of that one
I Know An Old Lady.
Look at that stogie!
I taught my kid that song, along with There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea. My wife, who is not a native English speaker had many questions. By the way, There’s a Hole in Bottom of the Sea was written by the great Frank Loesser, who also wrote the songs for Guys and Dolls as well as Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
Submitted as counterweight to the Disney domination of our childhoods and animation.
An American Tail, “Somewhere Out There”
My Neighbour Totoro Theme Song
Those got a lot of play in my house when my daughter was growing up!
I once played a chromatic harmonica version of Somewhere Out There with a friend’s jazz group in a club in Chicago. Seriously, I pretty much killed it. There wasn’t a dry seat in the house.
Because they pissed themselves with emotion?
Or laughing.
No, I think I did pretty well. I love playing ballads on the chromatic. If I could only live long enough, I might end up being pretty good at it.
Not from a movie but when we would go on drives, my girls would always want to sing songs by SCOTS like this one…
Before I learned any Japanese I learned to sing this song from watching this show every week. Every one of my friends in elementary school could sing this song. Now when I get together with a few of them we will start singing this and my family will just look at us like, WTF?
Totoro – Hey Lets Go!
My kid liked the theme song from The Banana Splits. I don’t even know how she got to see that show. There were still TV channels that played old TV shows back then. There were also still Saturday morning cartoon blocks on network TV. I remember her stomping around the house singing/screaming these tunes.
My girl didn’t care for the Teletubbies, but I did, so I would stomp around the house singing/screaming this:
Damn, I loved Animaniacs.
How about this one?
I had the Banana Splits as my ringtone for many years. Whenever I hear it, I feel an urge to answer my phone.
Oh man, this song would get stuck in my head when the kids were watching this show…
and my youngest would have dreams in the middle of the night and yell “Swiper no swiping!”
My daughter loved James and the Giant Peach when she was a child. This song always tugged at my heart. It’s so sad and full of longing. The boyish speak impediment makes it feel even more real and moving. I do apologize though because I know Ronald Dahl was an awful person and some of his work reflects his bigotry.
My Name Is James
Speech impediment, not gonna try to edit and lose the song.
A sister wouldn’t stop playing the Jungle Book Record
i love that song…
This is the one Disney song that I would agree with, @ManchuCandidate!
Louis Prima was in Jungle Book!
I still have that record and break it out every so often.
its a gorgeous song set to a childhood trauma…..i mean kids movie..
No, I think you were right the first time. I read the book wouldn’t even watch the movie.
Same.
Sponge – Go Speed Racer Go
Not a film, but this actually stuck with me. The movie stuff: not so much.
I hated (and still hate) shows/movies with music in them ESPECIALLY An American Tale.
UGH!
My favourite song when I was 4:
Oh wait…I heard there is a new Fraggle Rock coming soon and opposite of hated that! 🙂
@myopicprophet
😦
You. Hate. Fievel. ?!
😞
I’m sorry but yes. I hated feivel but my brothers loved it so I had to watch them go west…which was just as bad.
Hating Fievel and An American Tail is just anti-immigrant rhetoric, there. 👀🥺🧀🐭
I was a child of the 70’s –
One more…
One of the weirdest songs in my library drops a Star Blazers reference right up front.
That is truly excellent.