He co-wrote some of the most successful songs in Disney films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", and "Whistle While You Work"; and was also responsible for adapting Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods into the 1942 Disney film, Bambi. He is my 352nd choice to be named a Disney Legend.
He joined Disney in 1933, and wrote songs for several
animated shorts, including The Wise Little Hen and The Grasshopper and the
Ants. Working with composer Frank Churchill, he then wrote some 25 songs for
Disney's first full-length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in
1937.[4] Eight of their songs were used in the film, including
"Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", "Whistle
While You Work", and "I'm Wishing", and the film was nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
In 1938 Morey collaborated with composer Albert Hay Malotte
on the title song for Ferdinand the Bull, which won an Academy Award for Best
Animated Short Film, and he worked with Frank Churchill on the score for The
Reluctant Dragon in 1941. The following year he and Perce Pearce were
responsible for adapting the book Bambi into the animated film of the same
name. With Churchill, Morey was responsible for the film score, and both it and
the song "Love Is a Song" were nominated for Oscars. In 1949, he
received another Academy Award nomination, with composer Eliot Daniel, for the
song "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)", sung by Burl Ives in the film So
Dear to My Heart.
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