Winnie the Pooh (2011 soundtrack)

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Winnie the Pooh
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Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedJuly 12, 2011 (2011-07-12)
Recorded2010–2011
Genre Film soundtrack
Length46:42
Label Walt Disney Records
Producer
Walt Disney Animation Studios chronology
Tangled
(2010)		Winnie the Pooh
(2011)		 Wreck-It Ralph
(2012)
Henry Jackman chronology
X-Men: First Class
(2011)		Winnie the Pooh
(2011)		 Puss in Boots
(2011)

Winnie the Pooh is the soundtrack album to the 2011 film of the same name, based on the eponymous novel created by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, and directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall, the latter in his feature directorial debut. Henry Jackman composed the film score with additional music by Christopher Willis. The original songs were written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. [1] The soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on July 12, 2011. [1]

Contents

Development

Hoping to find the right songwriters for their film, Anderson and Hall sent visuals to five songwriting teams. The duo liked the demos returned by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, [2] who had previously worked with executive producer Lasseter and Disney Records' executive Chris Montan on the theme park musical version of Finding Nemo . [3]

The first song which the songwriting candidates were asked to write was the one which became "Everything Is Honey", in which Pooh undergoes a wild hallucination in his desperate hunger for honey. [4] The Lopezes' inspiration for writing their successful demo was their desperate lack of sleep at the time because of the restlessness of their then-newborn younger daughter, Annie. [4] The Lopezes wrote seven songs for the film, including "The Tummy Song", "A Very Important Thing to Do", "Everything Is Honey", "The Winner Song", "The Backson Song", "Pooh's Finale", and "It's Gonna Be Great". [5] "The Backson Song" was also inspired, again, by the Lopezes' ongoing issues with their younger daughter's difficulty with sleeping through the night, as well as the fact that Disney's request for the song came in while they were on "the vacation from hell" on Fire Island (in Anderson-Lopez's words) and they had to borrow a piano at a local church to compose it. [4] In the song, Kanga (voiced by Anderson-Lopez herself) mentions that one thing that Backsons do is "wake up babies at one and three."

Zooey Deschanel performed three songs for the film, including a take on the Winnie the Pooh theme song, [6] "A Very Important Thing to Do" and an original end-credit song "So Long", which was written by Deschanel and performed with She & Him bandmate M. Ward. [7] Although Winnie the Pooh did not do as well as hoped because it opened against the last film of the Harry Potter series, it was while working on the film that Disney executives started to really notice the Lopezes' "instinct for storytelling with music." [3] In turn, they did not have to audition for their next Disney project; instead, Disney pitched Frozen to them, whose soundtrack received positive response. [3]

Henry Jackman composed the film score with additional music provided by Christopher Willis. Jackman did not incorporate the musical works of Buddy Baker's compositions from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), but changed the method of composition, disregarding the use of electronic samplers and relied on with orchestration and harmony, to make the music "delightful", "innocent" and "charming". [8] The orchestral section consisted of a string quartet, with instruments such as double bass, cello, viola and violin were used in scoring for the film. Jackman stated "I think I just responded to the picture and spent two or three days finding that Pooh theme that had just enough melodic naivety to feel like Winnie the Pooh, just enough use of harmony so that, as the score develops, you know that you can sort of blossom into the appropriate material for the score." [8] He did not collaborate with Lopez and Deschanel, for writing the songs, as they were mostly standalone tracks. [8] In the trailer, the song "Somewhere Only We Know" by English alternative rock band Keane was used instead of the music written by Jackman. [9] However, "Somewhere Only We Know" is not included on the soundtrack.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Artist(s)Length
1."Winnie the Pooh" Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward 2:32
2."The Tummy Song" Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez Jim Cummings & Robert Lopez 1:07
3."A Very Important Thing to Do"Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-LopezZooey Deschanel0:47
4."The Backson Song"Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez Craig Ferguson, Cast - Winnie the Pooh2:55
5."It's Gonna Be Great"Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez Bud Luckey & Jim Cummings2:05
6."Everything Is Honey"Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-LopezJim Cummings, Zooey Deschanel, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez2:00
7."Pooh's Finale"Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-LopezRobert Lopez, Zooey Deschanel, & Cast - Winnie the Pooh1:05
8."So Long" Zooey Deschanel Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward3:28
9."Main Title Sequence / Winnie the Pooh"Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. ShermanZooey Deschanel & M. Ward2:24
10."Pooh Greets the Day" Henry Jackman Henry Jackman 2:46
11."Get You Tiggerized!"Henry Jackman, Christopher Willis Henry Jackman2:08
12."Woods and Words / Backson Tracks"Henry Jackman, Christopher WillisHenry Jackman3:41
13."Eeyore Needs His Tail / The Winner Song"Henry Jackman / Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-LopezCast - Winnie the Pooh2:08
14."Picnic and Beehive Chase"Henry JackmanHenry Jackman2:26
15."Hundred Acre Spy Game"Henry JackmanHenry Jackman3:34
16."Stuck in the Pit/Balloon Chase"Henry JackmanHenry Jackman4:04
17."A Honey Happy Ending"Henry JackmanHenry Jackman2:44
18."Winnie the Pooh Suite"Henry Jackman, Christopher WillisHenry Jackman4:38

Charts

Chart (2009)Position
US Billboard 200 [10] [ failed verification ]98
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard) [11] [ failed verification ]10

Awards and nominations

The song "So Long" was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2012 ceremony, [12] [13] and the film's soundtrack received a Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production. [14] The film's acclaimed track "The Backson Song", along with "So Long", were shortlisted for the nominations for Academy Award for Best Original Song, [15] and Henry Jackman for the Best Original Score category list. [16] However, none of them received the nominations.

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