''Chim Chim Cheree and Other Children's Choices'' is a children's album by
Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own rad ...
backed by Disneyland's Children's Chorus. It was released in 1964 by
Disneyland Records
Walt Disney Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label releases soundtrack albums from The Walt Disney Company's motion picture studios, television series, theme parks, and traditional studio albums produced by its r ...
(catalog no. ST-3927). The album was recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood.
Salvado "Tutti" Camarata, the musical director at Disneyland Records, was the album's producer. The
audio engineers were
Bruce Botnick, known for his later work with
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts ...
, and Brian Ross-Myring.
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "
Best Recording for Children
The Grammy Award for Best Children's Album (from 2020: Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album) is an honor presented since 2012 at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honor ...
".
It was reissued in 1998 as the first release from the "Disney's Archive Collection."
[
]AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...
gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars.[
]
Track listing
Side A
# " Chim Chim Cheree" (Richard M. Sherman
Richard Morton Sherman (born June 12, 1928) is an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, "the Sherman Brot ...
, Robert B. Sherman
Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter, best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M. Sherman. The Sherman brothers produced more motion picture song scores than any ...
, from ''Mary Poppins It may refer to:
* ''Mary Poppins'' (book series), the original 1934–1988 children's fantasy novels that introduced the character.
* Mary Poppins (character), the nanny with magical powers.
* ''Mary Poppins'' (film), a 1964 Disney film sta ...
'') :28# " Swingin' on a Star" ( Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) :59# " Funiculi Finicula" (Luigi Denza
Luigi Denza (24 February 1846 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian composer.
Career
Denza was born at Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. He studied music with Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory. In 1884, he moved to ...
, Howard Johnson) :10# "The Big Bad Wolf" (Ann Ronell, Frank Churchill) :45# " Polly Wolly Doodle" (American traditional, public domain) :03# " Let's Go Fly a Kite" (Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman, from ''Mary Poppins'') :20
Side B
# " A Spoonful of Sugar" (Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman, from ''Mary Poppins'') :58# "Constantinople" (Harry Carlton) :07# " Lavender Blue, Dilly Dilly" (Eliot Daniel, Larry Morey) :15# "Mairzy Doats
“Mairzy Doats” is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. It contains lyrics that make no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases. The song's title, for example, i ...
" ( Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston (born Jerry Levinson; March 25, 1909 – July 1, 1987) was an American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist.
Life and career
Born in Denver, Colorado, Livingston studied music at the University of Arizona. While there he com ...
, Milton Drake Milton Drake (August 3, 1912 - November 13, 2006) was an American lyricist and performing rights administrator.
As a child, he performed in vaudevilles, in films and on radio. Later he wrote special material for theater and nightclub revues, inclu ...
) :05# "The World by a Tail" (Albert Hague, Langston Hugues) :15# " Ilkey Moor Bar'tat" (English traditional, public domain) :21
References
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1964 albums
Burl Ives albums
Disneyland Records albums