While Walt Disney’s favorite song was Feed the Birds, his unofficial personal anthem (at least in the mind of Richard Sherman) was There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, written by the Sherman Brothers for the Disney produced GE Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York.
The song is a bouncy, positive tribute to the future. Walt Disney acknowledged the problems faced by humanity, but he also felt that technology and science could solve those problems. The solution to society’s ills and issues could be found through research and knowledge. It was that positive viewpoint that drove Walt Disney forward.
The Sherman Brothers always said that the song was one of the easiest for them to write because they just inserted Walt Disney’s optimism into the song. There was no doubt that Walt Disney would enjoy the song; it worked in his beliefs about the future. The song would eventually make its way to DISNEYLAND as part of the Carousel of Progress in the New Tomorrowland that opened in 1967.
