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Larry was born with a skeletal limb abnormality. His left arm was not fully formed and caused his mother to reject him at birth, saying "he would never amount to anything." She abandoned him to the care of his father, George T. Morey, a traveling musical ventriloquist.
Lawrence L. "Larry" Morey, Jr. was an American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter, who co-wrote some of the most successful songs in Disney films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "Heigh-Ho", "Someday 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 animated feature film Bambi. Morey ...
Larry Morey. American lyricist and author Lawrence L. 'Larry' Morey was chiefly noted for co-writing (with the composer and songwriter Frank Churchill ) the musical numbers for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) , including "Heigh-Ho", "I'm Wishing" and "Whistle While You Work". He also worked on the picture as a sequence director.
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Larry Morey. Soundtrack: Bambi. American lyricist and author Lawrence L. 'Larry' Morey was chiefly noted for co-writing (with the composer and songwriter Frank Churchill) the musical numbers for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), including "Heigh-Ho", "I'm Wishing" and "Whistle While You Work". He also worked on the picture as a sequence director. His second claim to fame was ...
- March 26, 1905
- May 8, 1971
Two-timed Academy Award nominee, Larry Morey is the lyricist of the famous Snow White songs, composed by Frank Churchill. They actually made about 25 of them, even though only eight made the final cut. Additionnaly, the song “Snow White” was released on sheet music and appears on a few records. Larry Morey could write music and lyrics.
One of the musical numbers from Bambi (1942), "Love is a Song", was nominated for an Oscar, as was "Lavender Blue" (sung by Burl Ives) for So Dear to My Heart (1948). This piece was adapted from a popular folk song. Morey worked for Disney from 1933, following stints at Paramount and Warners. He joined ASCAP in 1938.
Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio; Victor: PBS-79176: 10-in. 4/19/1934: The wise little hen: Raymond Paige Orchestra ; The Three Rhythm Kings
