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Winnie the Pooh is the soundtrack album to the 2011 film of the same name, based on the eponymous novel created by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, and directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall, the latter in his feature directorial debut.
"Winnie the Pooh" is the title song for the franchise of the same name. The Academy-Award winning songwriters are the Sherman Brothers, who have written the majority of Winnie the Pooh music since 1966, after they wrote the music and lyrics in Mary Poppins. [1] The song has been used in most Pooh merchandising since it was published in 1966.
Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Edward Bear, Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925.
Milne crafted an imaginative story about Pooh, Christopher Robin, and his friends in the Hundred Acre Woods, which he turned into a book, “Winnie-the-Pooh," in 1926.
It was later added as a segment to the March 1977 film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Music and lyrics were written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman). Background music was provided by Buddy Baker. Hungry for honey, Winnie-the-Pooh attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree.
Among its overseas grosses, Winnie the Pooh had its largest gross in Japan with $4.13 million; [33] the country has had a long-standing affection for the character of Winnie the Pooh. [34] [35] [36] Other international grosses include $1.33 million in Germany, $1.29 million in Poland, $1.18 million in the UK and $1.14 million in Russia. [2]
The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as the folk singer Fred Neil. Parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne's first book of children's poetry, When We Were Very Young. The first four lines of both the first and last verses are taken almost word-for-word from the poem "Spring Morning" in the book.
Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation is a 2021 musical based on the film franchise of the same name. The music and lyrics were written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman [1] with a book by Jonathan Rockefeller. The production also borrows elements from the short stories of the same name.