Pink Elephants on Parade explained
Pink Elephants on Parade |
Type: | Song |
"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play musical instruments during a hallucination sequence. After the sequence, Dumbo and Timothy wake up, hungover, in a tree. It is at this point that they realize that Dumbo can fly.
The song was written by Oliver Wallace (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics)[1] and sung by The Sportsmen. The segment was directed by Norman Ferguson, laid out by Ken O'Connor and animated by Hicks Lokey, Karl Van Leuven, and Howard Swift.[2]
The song is featured in the Disney live-action remake, directed by Tim Burton.[3] The Pink Elephants themselves appear as human-made bubble sculptures which also come to life.
In popular culture
Covers
- The song was covered by Sun Ra. A recording of this arrangement is available on Stay Awake, a tribute album of Disney tunes played by various artists, and produced by Hal Willner. The song was also covered by Circus Contraption and Lee Press-on and the Nails.
- Daladubz samples the song in his dubstep song entitled "Pink Elephants VIP".
- The song was re-recorded by Chicago-based electronic/industrial rock band V is for Villains.
- House of Mouse pays homage to the song in the episode "Mickey and Minnie's First Trip".
Parodies
See also
Notes and References
- The American Film Institute (1971). The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, Volume 1 University of California Press. pp. 663.
- Langer, Mark, Film History, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1990). Regionalism in Disney Animation: Pink Elephants and Dumbo, pp. 305-321
- News: March 11, 2019. Dumbo Press Kit. March 11, 2019. April 1, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190401051625/http://www.wdsmediafile.com/media/Dumbo/writen-material/Dumbo5c83092c19644.pdf. dead.
- Book: Hischak. Thomas S.. Robinson. Mark A.. The Disney Song Encyclopedia. 29 July 2009. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-6938-7. 75.