Up, Down and Touch the Ground
- Up, Down and Touch the Ground
"Up, Down and Touch the Ground" is a song from the 1966 musical film featurette "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree". The song was also subsequently incorporated into the 1977 musical film, "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" which is an amalgamation of the three previous Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes including "Honey Tree". In the song Winnie the Pooh's exercise makes him hungry. By the end of the song Pooh has rationalized his over-eating by calling his hunger, "healthy".
The song was written by Robert & Richard Sherman who have written most of the music for the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise over the years.
Anecdote
When first approached by Disney to write the songs for "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", American songwriters, Robert & Richard Sherman struggled with the concept. The insight and inspiration for the Pooh songs came from an unlikely source, as is explained in the Sherman Brothers' joint autobiography, "Walt's Time":
References
Literary sources
*cite book|last=Greene|first=Katherine|coauthors=and Richard Greene|title=Inside the Dream: The Personal Story of Walt Disney|year=2001|publisher=Disney Editions|location=New York|id=ISBN 0-7868-5350-6
*cite book|last=Peterson|first=Monique|title=The Little Big Book of Pooh|year=2002|publisher=Disney Editions|location=New York|id=ISBN 0-7868-5364-6
*cite book|last=Sherman|first=Robert B.|authorlink=Robert B. Sherman|title=|year=1998|publisher=Camphor Tree|location=Santa Clarita, Calif.|id=ISBN 0-9646059-3-7
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