Heffalumps and Woozles
| "Heffalumps and Woozles" | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack by The Mellomen from the album Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | |
| Released | 1968 |
| Writer(s) |
Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman |
"Heffalumps and Woozles" is a song from the 1968 Walt Disney musical film featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. It was written by the Sherman Brothers, and performed by The Mellomen. It is also in the 1977 full-length feature film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The song is about phantasmagoria elephants (heffalumps) and weasels (woozles) becoming a threat to Pooh and his food source (honey). The song serves as a soundtrack to the iconic, psychedelic "Pooh Nightmare" sequence where Pooh subconsciously deals with the theft of his all-too-precious honey. The sequence is generally considered by audiences to be quite eerie for a children's film. Elements from this song are played when Pooh can hear growling and banging noises from outside his house, which turn out to be Tigger.
It was shown in A Disney Halloween which aired every year from 1983 to the late 1990s.
Despite the song not being featured in the 2005 feature, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, it is generally accepted that the song and accompanying visual montage serves as the inspiration of the Heffalump film. Such is more definitively the case with the relationship between the Sherman Brothers' song, The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers and the 2000 release of The Tigger Movie.
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