- No Dogs Allowed
"No Dogs Allowed" is a song from the
1972 Peanuts film musical, "Snoopy Come Home ". It is sung byThurl Ravenscroft and was written byRobert and Richard Sherman .The song is a non-sync recording. It was orchestrated by
Vine Street music composer and arranger,Don Ralke . [Robert B. Sherman, "Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond", 1998, p 169.]Veiled message
The lyric is a thinly veiled commentary about discrimination. As songwriter/lyricist
Bob Sherman describes it:cquote|When we moved intoBeverly Hills as boys in 1937, houses and apartments for rent would hang signs which read, 'No Colored, Jews or Dogs Allowed.' Of course all that changed after the war. [Robert B. Sherman, "Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond", 1998, p 169.]References
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