It's A Small World (arr. Timothy Stapay) by Richard M. Sherman Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

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"It's A Small World" is arranged as a Toyland Christmas Fantasy. Inspired by the movie "Babes In Toyland", starring Laurel and Hardy.

"Children of the World" was the working title of the attraction Walt Disney only called "the happiest cruise that ever sailed" (and never "It's a Small World"). The attraction's tentative soundtrack design featured each national anthem, playing all at once, which resulted in a cacophonous noise. Walt demonstrated the miniature mock-up to his staff songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. As he and the Sherman Brothers walked through Walt said, "I need one song." A single song for the attraction which could be easily translated into many different languages.

Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough, which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a musical extravaganza. Following the extraordinary success of their stage musical The Wizard of Oz, which was produced in New York beginning in January 1903, producer Fred R. Hamlin and director Julian Mitchell hoped to create more family musicals. MacDonough had helped Mitchell with revisions to the Oz libretto by L. Frank Baum. Mitchell and MacDonough persuaded Victor Herbert to join the production.

Babes in Toyland features some of Herbert's most famous songs among them "Toyland".

Laurel and Hardy starred in a film of the same title; which is one their most beloved films.

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