the engineer who's set up the track overloaded the microphone on the guitar player and it became very distorted. Phil Spector said, 'Leave it like that, it's great.' Some years later everyone started to try to copy that sound and so they invented the fuzz box." The song also marked the first time his Wall of Sound production formula was fully executed. In 1963, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans took their version of the song to number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 7 on the Hot R&B Singles chart. Their song also peaked at number 45 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. The song was included on the only album the group ever recorded, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, issued on the Philles Records label. Track listings "Zip-a-Dee Doo-Dah" – 2:40 "Flip and Nitty" – 2:20 Personnel This version was sung by the following people: Bobby Sheen – lead vocals Darlene Love – background vocals Fanita James – background vocals In popular culture For many years the song was part of an opening theme medley for the Wonderful World of Disney television program and it has often been used in other TV and video productions by the studio, including being sung as an audition piece by a series of children in the Disney film Life with Mikey. It is one of many popular songs that features a bluebird ("Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder"), epitomized by the "bluebird of happiness", as a symbol of cheer. The song is also the Departure melody of platform 1 of Maihama Station in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. The song was performed by Muppet bunnies in a 1980 episode of The Muppet Show guest starring Alan Arkin. This song is used in Splash Mountain, a log flume ride based on Song of the South at Disneyland in California, Tokyo Disneyland in Japan, and formerly at Magic Kingdom in Florida. "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is sung at some point in Paul McCartney's film, Give My Regards to Broad Street. The Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" animated cartoon "Journey to the Disney Vault" features a brief parody of the song. This rendition replaces "My, oh my, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine headin' my way!" with Uncle Remus instead singing the lyrics, "Negroes are inferior in every way. Whites are much cleaner, that's what I say." The phrase is mentioned on the song Klap Ya Handz from