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The song is based on the titular character of Danish fairy tale Thumbelina, who is the size of a thumb.In the song, a morose Thumbelina is encouraged to sing and dance ("Thumbelina dance, Thumbelina sing") despite being a "tiny little thing", and when her "heart is full of love" she becomes "nine feet tall".
Thumbelina: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1994 Don Bluth animated feature Thumbelina and was released on February 24, 1994. The soundtrack was composed entirely by Barry Manilow. Manilow, along with lyricists Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman, who wrote the songs. [1]
Barry Manilow agreed to compose the songs for three Don Bluth pictures. Thumbelina was the first, followed by The Pebble and the Penguin, and the third, a retelling of the story of Rapunzel, in which Manilow would also have a voice role, was canceled. The film's soundtrack was released for a limited time and has since gone out of print.
A large part of the narrative is told through song (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) and ballet and includes many of the real Andersen's most famous stories, such as The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid. The film was internationally successful at the time of release.
Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen , Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for ...
When Thumbelina was, I think she was about two days old, and I had a walnut shell. There was the story of Thumbelina. It was about a little tiny princess. And her bed was in a little tiny walnut ...
"Thumbelina" is a country rock song about a mother and daughter traveling across America, with the last line suggesting that the mother is leaving her husband. [14] "Watching the Clothes" was an older song written before the band's debut album. Hynde was inspired to write the song after a close friend died. [13]
Thumbelina, the soundtrack to the 1994 Don Bluth film, or the title track "Thumbelina" (Frank Loesser song), a song from Hans Christian Andersen, a 1952 Hollywood musical film "Thumbelina", a song by The Pretenders from their 1984 album Learning to Crawl "Thumbelina", a song by Tracy Bonham from the 2000 album Down Here