News New Verse Being Added to "it's a small world"

[VJ]

It probably will be ok, but 1997 WDI and 2025 WDI are very different beasts.

also bruce healey retired so that is an automatic downgrade from small world holiday

(kidding... kinda... i like bruce healey...)

 

[mickEblu]

This also continues the trend of Disney frequently messing with what works, while ignoring what doesn't.

And even when they're trying to change something that needs improvement, like Constance, they somehow find a way to screw it up.

On paper this change is great, but Disney has a way of fumbling changes that on paper are great. How many people on here were excited for a Princess and the Frog attraction four years ago, since it seemed like a slam dunk?

I like the idea of honoring a Disney legend like Richard Sherman but I’m assuming they will have to re-record new vocals to accomplish this which means we lose the original recordings so that’s a scary thought with the current people running things. Risk/ Reward isn’t there for me. For what, to get a couple more lines that nobody will really hear or pay attention to anyway? IASW needs a lot of love but a soundtrack change isn’t one of them. Yes let’s mess with that beautiful recording from the 60s while I’m still staring at ceiling tiles and dirty carpet.

I wonder how many new rides could have paid for themselves with all the money they have spent downgrading things that were fine?

 

[mickEblu]

On another note, is this part of the reason IASW is down so long this year? I wonder what other updates they might be working on.

 

[Misted Compass]

On another note, is this part of the reason IASW is down so long this year? I wonder what other updates they might be working on.

Probably just intensive refurb for the 70th; DLRR has also had a lot of downtime in recent months.

 

[brb1006]

I kinda thought it would be cute to have his voice singing it, at the exit tunnel of the ride...

But I assume they likely recorded a group of kids singing it, and it will be worked into the finale room or something.

I remember watching Richard reading the last verse of It's A Small World to Iger late last year and felt sad watching it. While Iger didn't say the specific date for when that was recorded, Richard's voice sounded very weak and could no longer sing. I'm guessing this was shot a few months before he passed last year. I'm sure @lentesta would find this perfect to show to Jim Hill for a future episode of Disney Dish.


For those curious, the last time we heard Richard singing in a recent Disney project is for the 2018 film "Christopher Robin" specifically the song "Busy Doing Nothing" and "Christopher Robin" for the credits. When I seen that movie in theaters, I actually teared since it felt like Sherman's final contributions to the Winnie the Pooh.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

I find the first two lines clumsy and not as easy to sing compared to how it stands now.

 

[mickEblu]

I find the first two lines clumsy and not as easy to sing compared to how it stands now.

It’s the “Mother Earth” part. Repeating the same sound with “ther” and “Ear(th). Doesn’t necessarily flow off the tongue but if you put the emphasis on the “U” in unite and the “we” in the next line it works but yeah not quite as well as the older lyrics.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Will this be added to Small World in MK? I hope so, I am looking forward to it.

 

[Consumer]

I find the first two lines clumsy and not as easy to sing compared to how it stands now.

To be fair, it was cut for a reason.

 

[mickEblu]

To be fair, it was cut for a reason.

Were those lines cut from the original? I thought he just wrote those lines recently?

 

[VJ]

Were those lines cut from the original? I thought he just wrote those lines recently?

the verse is brand-new, not cut from the original

 

[mickEblu]

the verse is brand-new, not cut from the original

Yeah just saw that thanks. Hadn’t yet seen the interview posted above when I asked the question. Or it had been a while.

 

[Consumer]

the verse is brand-new, not cut from the original

Wasn't this written by the Sherman Brothers?

 

[VJ]

Wasn't this written by the Sherman Brothers?

by richard sherman before his death (so half-correct)

 

[Agent H]

I remember watching Richard reading the last verse of It's A Small World to Iger late last year and felt sad watching it. While Iger didn't say the specific date for when that was recorded, Richard's voice sounded very weak and could no longer sing. I'm guessing this was shot a few months before he passed last year. I'm sure @lentesta would find this perfect to show to Jim Hill for a future episode of Disney Dish.


For those curious, the last time we heard Richard singing in a recent Disney project is for the 2018 film "Christopher Robin" specifically the song "Busy Doing Nothing" and "Christopher Robin" for the credits. When I seen that movie in theaters, I actually teared since it felt like Sherman's final contributions to the Winnie the Pooh.

This makes me tear up

 

[MisterPenguin]

It’s the “Mother Earth” part. Repeating the same sound with “ther” and “Ear(th). Doesn’t necessarily flow off the tongue but if you put the emphasis on the “U” in unite and the “we” in the next line it works but yeah not quite as well as the older lyrics.

I love our American rhotic "R" sound. Fir. Her. Grrrrrr.

Brits drop it except when it's the start of a word or to insert it between two vowels, "[R]eally nice pictuah... do you enjoy draw[r]ing?"

Anyhoo, to your point of repetition of the rhotic-r, here's a master class of making it the dominant sound throughout the entirety of a song...

 

[Agent H]

I love our American rhotic "R" sound. Fir. Her. Grrrrrr.

Brits drop it except when it's the start of a word or to insert it between two vowels, "[R]eally nice pictuah... do you enjoy draw[r]ing?"

Anyhoo, to your point of repetition of the rhotic-r, here's a master class of making it the dominant sound throughout the entirety of a song...

I have no idea what you’re talking about but now I have an excuse to listen to the song from encanto again so thanks

 

[MisterPenguin]

I’m assuming they will have to re-record new vocals to accomplish this which means we lose the original recordings so that’s a scary

That's a possibility. If they do re-record it, tho, it's a chance to make it less cloying, more full-bodied, and emphasize the regional riffs that are in the ride, but too subtle to sometimes notice.

However, given the state of the art of digital audio and AI audio, they could 'simply' get a bunch of children to sing the new verses and manipulate it to seamlessly sound like the original recording and then drop it into the soundtrack.

Either way could happen. I'm guessing the latter.

 

[mickEblu]

That's a possibility. If they do re-record it, tho, it's a chance to make it less cloying, more full-bodied, and emphasize the regional riffs that are in the ride, but too subtle to sometimes notice.

However, given the state of the art of digital audio and AI audio, they could 'simply' get a bunch of children to sing the new verses and manipulate it to seamlessly sound like the original recording and then drop it into the soundtrack.

Either way could happen. I'm guessing the latter.

I guess it is possible but sometimes it’s hard to capture the same magic the second time around. See “We are the World” part 2. lol. Ok those were just inferior artists but from a technical standpoint is it easy to make these new recordings sound like they came from the older/ vintage/ analog sound? Sometimes the technology can only take you part of the way there. But it’s missing that soul or je ne sais quoi.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I guess it is possible but sometimes it’s hard to capture the same magic the second time around. See “We are the World” part 2. lol. Ok those were just inferior artists but from a technical standpoint is it easy to make these new recordings sound like they came from the older/ vintage/ analog sound? Sometimes the technology can only take you part of the way there. But it’s missing that soul or je ne sais quoi.

Yeah, AI is at that level. Scarily so.