Accentuate the positive - Disney?

[DianaCox]

My husband and I are both nearly CERTAIN that this song is from a Disney movie (but NOT The Mighty Ducks - much longer ago) - we both thought it was The Jungle Book, but it is not. I have done some searching and CANNOT find which movie - and we're not the only ones who think it was in a Disney movie - but which one? Maybe Jiminy Cricket? But I can't find that connection either.

One two three GO!

 

[newanatomy]

Mary Poppins?

 

[brooklyngirl]

Nothing is coming to mind, and I'm pretty good with Disney movies.

 

[southernlady]

Nope not a Disney song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Come_the_Waves

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a popular song. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and it was published in 1944. It is sung in the style of a sermon, and explains that accentuating the positive is key to happiness. In describing his inspiration for the lyric, Mercer told the Pop Chronicles radio documentary "[my] publicity agent ... went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'"[1][2]

Mercer recorded the song, with The Pied Pipers and Paul Weston's orchestra, on October 4, 1944, and it was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 180. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 4, 1945 and lasted 13 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 2.[3]

Within a matter of weeks, several other recordings of the song were released by other well-known artists:

• Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, for the film Here Come the Waves,[1] made a recording on December 8, 1944, which was released by Decca Records as catalog number 23379. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 25, 1945 and lasted nine weeks on the chart, peaking at number 2.[3]

 

[DianaCox]

Yeah, I saw the Wikipedia entry - but other searches identified many other people who ALSO think the song was in a Disney cartoon movie, Argh!!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Mercer was a genius. Some of the most creative lyrics, from when songs had words.


ETA:

• "Lazy Bones" (1933) (music byHoagy Carmichael)
• "Moon Dreams" with Chummy MacGregor
• "P.S. I Love You" (1934) (music byGordon Jenkins)
• "Goody Goody" (1936) (music byMatty Malneck)
• "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" (1936)
• "Hooray for Hollywood" (1937) (music by Richard A. Whiting)
• "Too Marvelous for Words" (1937) (music by Richard A. Whiting)
• "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" (1938) (music by Harry Warren)
• "Jeepers, Creepers!" (1938) (music by Harry Warren)
• "And the Angels Sing" (1939) (music by Ziggy Elman)
• "Day In, Day Out" (1939) (music byRube Bloom)
• "I Thought About You" (1939) (music by Jimmy Van Heusen)
• "Wings Over the Navy" (1939) (music by Harry Warren)
• "Cuckoo in the Clock" (1939) (music by Walter Donaldson)
• "Fools Rush In" (1940) (music byRube Bloom)
• "Blues in the Night" (1941) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "I Had Myself a True Love" (music by Harold Arlen)
• "I Remember You" (1941) (music byVictor Schertzinger)
• "Tangerine" (1941) (music by Victor Schertzinger)
• "This Time the Dream's on Me" (1941) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "Hit the Road to Dreamland" (1942) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "That Old Black Magic" (1942) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "Trav'lin' Light" (1942) (music by Jimmy Mundy and James Osborne "Trummy" Young)
• "Skylark" (1942) (music by Hoagy Carmichael)
• "Dearly Beloved" (1942) (music byJerome Kern)
• "I'm Old Fashioned" (1942) (music by Jerome Kern)

• "My Shining Hour" (1943) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (1943) (music by Harold Arlen; theme song of the 1957–1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy)
• "Dream" (1943) (words and music by Johnny Mercer)
• "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (1944) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "G.I. Jive" (1944) (music and words by Johnny Mercer)
• "Out of This World" (1945) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1945) (music by Harry Warren)
• "Laura" (1945) (music by David Raksin)
• "Come Rain or Come Shine" (1946) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" (1946) (music by Harold Arlen)
• "Autumn Leaves" (1947) (music by Joseph Kosma)
• "The Glow-Worm" (1952) (music Paul Lincke)
• "I Wanna Be A Dancing Man" (1952) (music by Harry Warren)
• "Satin Doll" (1953) (music by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn)
• "Midnight Sun" (1954) (music by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke)
• "Something's Gotta Give" (1954) (words and music by Johnny Mercer)
• "Jubilation T. Cornpone" (1956) (music by Gene de Paul)
• "I'm Past My Prime" (1956) (music by Gene de Paul)
• "Moon River" (1961) (music by Henry Mancini)
• "Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) (music by Henry Mancini)
• "I Wanna Be Around" (1962) (words and music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
• "Charade" (1963) (music by Henry Mancini)
• "Lorna" (1964) (music by Mort Lindsey)
• "Emily" (1964) (music by Johnny Mandel)
• "Summer Wind" (1965) (music by Henry Mayer)
• "Whistling Away the Dark" (1970) (music by Henry Mancini; from the filmDarling Lili)
• "Drinking Again" (with Doris Tauber)
• "When October Goes" (music by Barry Manilow)

 

[Spiky Bugger]

LOL...and right now, just minutes after posting, I was channel surfing and encountered Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron dancing to Something's Gotta Give, in Daddy Longlegs.

 

[JackieOnLine]

I got turned on to a lot of classics like that from liking Frank Sinatra so much. and Sammy Davis Jr & Dean Martin...and so on.

in fact, I'm going to go play Christmas with the Rat Pack.

 

[DianaCox]

As I've gotten older, I have found myself drawn - despite not thinking he was all THAT as a singer - to Sinatra. Maybe it's just familiarity, maybe I'm finally being drawn in by whatever it was that made him so popular - the "It-Factor" - but yeah.

Here in San Jose, there is a yearly Sinatra party at one of the old fancy downtown hotels: https://www.facebook.com/events/1734959710062800/
We went last year, and the place was JAMMED with younger adults dressed in 50s-60s outfits - too crowded, in fact, to be all that much fun (not nearly enough seating, no place to dance) - but it was a kick to see so many people still enthralled with the Sinatra vibe.

 

[JackieOnLine]

lately, I have met more than one person a work who were dealers in casinos long ago enough that they met Sinatra and others; they all say the famous people were charming to meet.

(you never find that in Nebraska nursing homes!)

Here in San Jose, there is a yearly Sinatra party at one of the old fancy downtown hotels

is it always in December?

some day I would love to go to that. and I still want to learn to Swing Dance, although I find my habit of going to be by 9 PM kind of gets in the way.

 

[k9ophile]

Bare Necessities is from Jungle Book and is similar to Accentuate the Positive. The Brat Pack pales in comparison to the Rat Pack. Dean Martin still makes me swoon.

 

[DianaCox]

Bare Necessities is from Jungle Book and is similar to Accentuate the Positive. The Brat Pack pales in comparison to the Rat Pack. Dean Martin still makes me swoon.

I think you're right - the songs are pretty similar - that's why so many people also think Baloo sang it in the Jungle Book:
http://meredithstokkencc.blogspot.com/2011/06/accentuate-positive.html
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/top...tive-which-movies-other-than-la-confidential/

At least I'm in good company!

 

[k9ophile]

At least I'm in good company!

I could have sworn that Accentuate the Positive was in the Jungle Book as well. I'm so grateful for Google so that now I won't sit up in the middle of night realizing the difference. It's so hard to get back to sleep.

 

[JackieOnLine]

K9 - I had a woman who is very old and in very bad shape physically tell me last week "I would let Dean Martin eat crackers in my bed anytime!"

that man was HOT

 

[Munchkin]

I have nothing to add. But I did sit on a toilet that Elvis used.