‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. It did much better on the Adult Contemporary chart, reaching number 14. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was released as a single, achieving a measure of commercial success on the U.S. In the stage musical, the word's actual spelling reversal is used, while rapper Ghostface Killah said "docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-super", which is the full prosody version, in his song "Buck 50" released on his album Supreme Clientele. However, when the word is spelled backwards it actually becomes "suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus", which is different. Her claim was not about spelling it backwards, but rather saying it backwards in other words, if one breaks the word into several sections or prosodic feet ("super-cali-fragi-listic-expi-ali-docious") and recites them in reverse sequence, and also modifies "super" to "rupus", it comes close to what Poppins said in the film. Backwards version ĭuring the song, Poppins says, "You know, you can say it backwards, which is 'dociousaliexpilistic-fragilcalirupus', but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?" (To which Dick Van Dyke replies, "Indubitably.") Andrews' husband, Tony Walton, who also designed the sets and costumes, came up with the backwards version. The Disney publishers won the lawsuit in part because they produced affidavits showing that "variants of the word were known . Another recording of "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus", performed by The Arabian Knights and published by Gloro Records, was released in 1951. Also known as "The Super Song", it was recorded by Alan Holmes and His New Tones for Columbia Records, with vocal by Hal Marquess and the Holmes Men, and music and lyrics by Patricia Smith (a Gloria Parker pen name) and Don Fenton. The plaintiffs alleged that it was a copyright infringement of their 1949 song "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus". In 1965, the song was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit by songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young against Wonderland Music, Disney's music publishing subsidiary, and publisher of the song from the film. ĭ meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables. … The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. When we were little boys in the mid-1930s, we went to a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains, where we were introduced to a very long word that had been passed down in many variations through many generations of kids. The Sherman Brothers, who wrote the Mary Poppins song, have given several conflicting explanations for the word's origin, in one instance claiming to have coined it themselves, based on their memories of having created double-talk words as children. The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you don’t know what to say". In the column, Herman states that the word "implies all that is grand, great, glorious, splendid, superb, wonderful". The Oxford English Dictionary first records the word (with a spelling of "supercaliflawjalisticeexpialadoshus") in the column titled "A-muse-ings" by Helen Herman in the Syracuse University Daily Orange, dated March 10, 1931. The word is a compound word, and said by Richard Lederer in his book Crazy English to be made up of these words: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and -docious "educable", with all of these parts combined meaning "Atoning for being educable through delicate beauty." Mary disagrees, saying that at least one word is appropriate for the situation, and begins the song. Flush with her victory, she is immediately surrounded by reporters who pepper her with questions and suggest that she is at a loss for words. The song occurs in the chalk-drawing outing animated sequence, just after Mary Poppins wins a horse race. The movie version finished at #36 in AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. It also appears in the 2004 stage show version.īecause Mary Poppins was a period piece set in 1910, songs that sounded similar to songs of the period were wanted. It was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. " Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" ( / ˌ s uː p ər ˌ k æ l ɪ ˌ f r æ dʒ ɪ ˌ l ɪ s t ɪ k ˌ ɛ k s p i ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ ʃ ə s/ ( listen) SOO-pər- KAL-i- FRA-ji- LIS-tik- EKS-pee- AL-i- DOH-shəs) is a song and single from the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins. Single by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dykeįrom the album Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack
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