“It’s a Small World” just got a little bit bigger. Late last year Disney released a short film celebrating song’s 60th anniversary titled The Final Verse.
It revealed that songwriter Richard Sherman had crafted a third verse to the classic tune and shared it with Disney CEO Bob Iger in 2023.
Sherman, who died in 2024, and his brother Robert were responsible for music in Disney classics such Mary Poppins — for which the Sherman Brothers earned Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score — The Jungle Book, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and many more.
This week, Disney announced that the verse would be added to soundtrack of the song’s namesake attraction at Disneyland, beginning July 17.
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