Guitar Learning Journey: "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" cover - vocals

Song: "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
originally performed by: James Baskett
movie: Song of The South
song by: Allie Wrubel
lyrics: Ray Gilbert

"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert for the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie Song of the South, sung by James Baskett. For "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song[1] and was the second Disney song to win this award, after "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940).[1] In 2004, it finished at number 47 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, a survey of top tunes in American cinema.

Disney historian Jim Korkis said the word "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" was reportedly invented by Walt Disney, who was fond of nonsense words such as "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". According to the book Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture, the song is influenced by the chorus of the pre-Civil War folk song "Zip Coon", a "Turkey in the Straw" variation: "O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day".