Word: heigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frank Churchill, 40, hit tune composer (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?; Heigh Ho; Whistle While You Work); by his own hand (shooting); near Newhall, Calif. He had been composing for Walt Disney for eleven years. A suicide note to his wife read: "My nerves have completely left me. Please forgive me for this awful act." Churchill's songs included one called Happy as a Lark, another called The Sunny Side of Things...
...Songwriters Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace for the best scoring of a musical picture in Walt Disney's Dumbo. Churchill had failed to equal his earlier Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and Heigh Ho, but had turned out three pleasant tunes-Baby Mine, Casey Junior, Look Out for Mister Stork. Wallace's best number was When I See an Elephant...
...Snow White. Their burlesque song-&-dance routine, hilarious, eminently crowish, is typical of the good circus humor that bubbles through the picture. They have one of the best (When I See an Elephant Fly) of Dumbo's nine tuneful melodies, none of which compares with the singable Heigh-Ho. One (Look Out for Mr. Stork) has lyrics that are open to smart-alecky interpretation when removed from the picture's context...
...McNary of Oregon for his running mate (see p. 16), Mr. Willkie appeared in person. He had prepared no speech. On the way out, he had turned over some sentences in his mind. With Mrs. Willkie he walked down the centre aisle, while the band blared his theme song Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho! It's Back to Work We Go, Republicans cheered, balloons and confetti rained down from the galleries. Said Wendell Willkie, shaking his big head: "Forty-eight days, and only forty-eight days ago, I started out to preach to the American people the doctrine of unity...
...head is revolving," says Bishop Kinsolving, Heigh-ho, we'll blow the man down. "I'll drink till I totter," says Rt. Rev. Potter. . . . "To hell with white ribbons," says good Cardinal Gibbons...