Mickey mouse song

There is a surreal scene in the Stanley Kubrick movie "Full Metal Jacket", where soldiers march over desolate terrain, it is dark and fire everywhere and they are singing a song which is clearly named "The Mickey Mouse Club March". This song on one side emphasizes the ludicrous scene, but also mocks the American war machinery and the senseless Vietnam War. The Walt Disney Company has churned out plenty of music during the eighty plus years of making cartoons, movies and animated features, whereby several of the songs were honored with prestigious awards, including Grammies and Oscars.Historically viewed, the first ever song featured in a Mickey Mouse cartoon could be the whistled version of "Steamboat Bill" and the early nineteenth's century folk song "Turkey in the Straw". The first ever original song, which was featured in a Mickey Mouse cartoon, was "Minnie's Yoo Hoo", featured in the 1929 cartoon "Mickey's Follies". The song, which went on to become their theme song, clearly declared that Mickey and Minnie were a couple and defines finally the name of Minnie, which was earlier on believed to be Minerva.Ever since that time, the Disney cartoons and movies would attempt to use original, if not classical music - like it happened in the first color cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Band Concert". This tendency was the ground for the "Silly Symphonies" series, which started with "The Skeleton Dance" and gave Walt Disney finally a prolonged distribution agreement with Columbia Pictures. The integration of music in all Walt Disney productions is very important, leading towards the animated feature films which were all designed in form of Musicals, with elaborate music and dance numbers. "Three Little Pigs", one of the most expensive productions the Walt Disney Company undertook up to that date, it was the 1933, cost around sixty thousand dollars to produce, but brought in more than that amount in merchandising alone. The box office totaled a quarter of a million dollars.When the Mickey Mouse ventured into the television, for instance with the Mickey Mouse club, it was clear from the very start that this production is going to feature plenty of original music. The aforementioned "The Mickey Mouse Club March" was one of the main songs, leading into the show and ending the show with the goodbye line added to the lyrics. The Mickey Mouse song is prominently featured in all Disneyland appearances of the mouse, very often together with Minnie, whereby the song "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" may be used just as well. The current show incarnation, "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse", features an amended version of "The Mickey Mouse Club March".

Linus Orakles
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