Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a song from the 1953 animated Disney short of the same name. It is the signature song which plays throughout the short.
Background
It is first heard when Professor Owl teaches his class about where the music comes from through musical instruments. It is then heard again at the end of the short. A short snippet of the song can be heard via clarinet during the woodwind evolution sequence and later during the conclusion sequence where it recaps all the instruments.
Lyrics
Professor Owl: (speaking) Did you ever stop think when the band plays rink tink where all the music comes from?
From a toot and a whistle and a plunk and a boom...
Chorus: That's where the music comes from
Professor Owl: (speaking) Did you ever understand that a symphony so grand so bright and yet... sentimental?
Canary Sisters: That a toot and a whistle and a plunk and a boom
Chorus: Are very instrumental
For the horns go toot
The woodwinds whistle
The strings go plunk-plunk too
Then the drums boom-boom with the bing-zing-zoom
And it comes out fine and true
Professor Owl: (spoken) So remember what I say when the band begins to play just where the music comes from.
Chorus: From a (toot) and a (whistle) and a (plunk) and a (boom)
That's where the music comes from
With the toot...
And the whistle...
And the plunk...
And the boom...
Right from the old Stone Ages
Everywhere you hear band or a symphony so grand
In music Oriental
The toot and the whistle and the plunk and the boom
Are very instrumental
For the trombones toot
The calliopes whistle
And the band goes plunkety-plunk-a-tune
Then the drums boom-boom
With a click-clack-zoom
In a Latin rhythm too
So remember what we say when the band begins to play
Where all the music comes from
From a toot...
And a whistle...
And a plunk...
And a boom...
That's where the music
That's where the music
That's where the music comes from...!
Trivia
- In the Disney Sing Along Songs volume Fun with Music after the Blue Danube Waltz, a fragment of the song can be briefly heard.