Larry Morey

American lyricist and author chiefly noted for cowriting with the composer and songwriter Frank Churchill the musical numbers for Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 including HeighHo Im Wishing and Whistle While You Work He also worked on the picture as a sequence director His second claim to fame was adapting Felix Saltens 1923 book Bambi a Life in the Woods for the screen as well as cowriting the score with Churchill Assisted by Perce Pearce he is further credited with devising the characters of Thumper the rabbit and Flower the skunk primarily to lighten the mood of the picture One of the musical numbers from Bambi 1942 Love is a Song was nominated for an Oscar as was Lavender Blue sung by Burl Ives for So Dear to My Heart 1948 This piece was adapted from a popular folk song Morey worked for Disney from 1933 following stints at Paramount and Warners He joined ASCAP in 1938 IMDb Mini Biography By ISMowis