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"Let's Go Fly a Kite" is a song from Walt Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins, composed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. [1] This song is performed at the end of the film when George Banks (played by David Tomlinson), realizes that his family is much more important than his job.
The song was recorded at Abbey Road using unconventional instruments such as a wind machine and included a spoken interlude in Chinese, composed of "sweet nothings" [3] and performed [4] by the Chinese-Trinidadian actress Jacqui Chan, [5] a friend of the band. The spoken words are in Mandarin, a language which she did not usually speak.
One line from this song ("The whole world takes its time from Greenwich, but Greenwich, they say, takes its time from Admiral Boom!") is spoken by Bert early in the film. "Sticks, Paper and Strings" was an early version of "Let's Go Fly a Kite."
Pages in category "Songs from Mary Poppins" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Let's Go Fly a Kite; The Life I Lead (song) M. A Man Has ...
Another early collaboration was the industrial musical General Electric presents Go Fly a Kite written with Walter Marks for General Electric's 5th Electric Executives Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1966. Kander's and Ebb's greatest acclaim came from the musical Cabaret (1966) and the 1972 film version.
Walt Disney Records released two editions of the soundtrack on December 10, 2013: a single-disc and a two-disc digipak deluxe edition, with the latter containing original demo recordings by the Sherman Brothers and selected songs from Mary Poppins.
The song, written by Chris Dedrick and produced by Enoch Light, uses kites to symbolize youth, innocence, and memories, describing a group of children, presumably the Dedrick siblings, running, laughing and flying kites in a field far away from their parents because the parents don't realize that kites are fun.
"Let's Go Fly a Kite" is a song from the Mary Poppins film and musical. In the Disney animated film Mulan, kites are flown in the parade. In the film Shooter, a kite is used to show the wind direction and wind velocity. "Kite" is a 1978 song celebrating kite flying and appears on Kate Bush's first album, The Kick Inside.