Round My Family Tree
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"Round My Family Tree" is a manic song from the 2000 Disney film: The Tigger Movie which is sung by the film's main character "Tigger" (voiced by Jim Cummings) as he anticipates what his family reunion will be like. The most notable part of the song's segment in the movie is that it incorporates many pop culture and history references, something unexpected of a Winnie the Pooh medium, but modified to be Tigger-themed. Most of them that have been identified as follows:
- The Brady Bunch
- The Jackson Five
- Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt-blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch.
- Jerry Springer
- Fashion shows in Milan
- Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David
- Michelangelo's David
- American Gothic by Grant Wood
- The Birth of Venus by Botticelli
- Vincent Van Gogh's self portrait
- The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Atlas, with numerous constellations in the back ground
- The ancient notion of a flat earth
The song was written by Robert and Richard Sherman for the film and marks a return of the famous brother songwriting team to the full Disney fold after nearly thirty years. All the other songs from The Tigger Movie were written by the Shermans.
[edit] Annie Award Nomination
Robert and Richard Sherman were nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production" for this song in 2001.[1]
