Lawrence L. “Larry” Morey, Jr. was an American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter who co-wrote some of the most successful songs in Disney films of the 1930s and 1940s, including “Heigh-Ho,” “Someday My Prince Will Come,” and “Whistle While You Work.” He was also responsible for adapting Felix Salten’s book

Bambi, A Life in the Woods into the 1942 Disney animated feature film Bambi. Morey joined Walt Disney in 1933 and wrote songs for several animated shorts, including The Wise Little Hen and The Grasshopper and the Ants. Working with composer Frank Churchill, he then wrote some 25 songs for Disney’s first full-length animated film

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937. Eight of their songs were used in the film, which was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Original Score. In 1938, Morey collaborated with composer Albert Hay Malotte on the title song for Ferdinand the Bull, which won an Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film, and he worked with Churchill on the score for The Reluctant Dragon in 1941.

The following year, he and Perce Pearce were responsible for adapting the book Bambi into the animated film. With Churchill, Morey created the film score, and both it and the song “Love is a Song” were nominated for Oscars®. In 1949, he received another Academy Award® nomination, with composer Eliot Daniel, for the song “Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly),” from the film So Dear to My Heart. In 1950, he contributed song ideas with Charles Wolcott in the early stages of Cinderella, writing several songs that did not appear in the final film.