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    The song "The Ugly Bug Ball" was written by the Sherman Brothers for the 1963 Disney film Summer Magic, based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens. In the film, the song is sung by Burl Ives' character Osh Popham to describe a ball celebrating bugs regardless of appearance. Initially, Walt Disney did not like the song but was convinced by the songwriter's explanation that bugs find each other beautiful, changing Disney's mind and making the song a popular hit.

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    The song "The Ugly Bug Ball" was written by the Sherman Brothers for the 1963 Disney film Summer Magic, based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens. In the film, the song is sung by Burl Ives' character Osh Popham to describe a ball celebrating bugs regardless of appearance. Initially, Walt Disney did not like the song but was convinced by the songwriter's explanation that bugs find each other beautiful, changing Disney's mind and making the song a popular hit.

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    The song "The Ugly Bug Ball" was written by the Sherman Brothers for the 1963 Disney film Summer Magic, based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens. In the film, the song is sung by Burl Ives' character Osh Popham to describe a ball celebrating bugs regardless of appearance. Initially, Walt Disney did not like the song but was convinced by the songwriter's explanation that bugs find each other beautiful, changing Disney's mind and making the song a popular hit.

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    ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre G1 B5

    The Ugly Bug Ball

    The Ugly Bug Ball" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers and sung by Burl Ives as Osh
    Popham in the movie Summer Magic.

    Summer Magic is a 1963 Walt Disney Productions live-action family musical film directed by
    James Neilson, and starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, and Dorothy McGuire in a story about an
    early 1900s Boston widow and her children taking up residence in a small town in Maine.
    The film was based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The
    young actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her work.

    At first, Walt Disney did not care for the song. Songwriter Robert Sherman explained to
    Disney that to bugs, other bugs were not ugly, even if they looked ugly to us, beauty being in
    the eye of the beholder. Disney liked the idea and the song went on to become one of the
    popular songs of the year.

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