"The Right Side" is a song from the Welcome to Pooh Corner

Welcome to Pooh Corner

Welcome to Pooh Corner is a live-action/puppet television series that aired on Disney Channel, featuring the characters from the Winnie the Pooh universe portrayed by actors in human-sized puppet suits, except Roo, who was originally a traditional puppet...

Cable TV series which premiered in 1983

1983 in television

The year 1983 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1983.For the American TV schedule, see: 1983-84 United States network television schedule.-Events:...

 on the Disney Channel (which was also that channel's inaugural season). The song was written by the Academy Award winning songwriting duo Richard M. Sherman

Richard M. Sherman

Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman....

 and Robert B. Sherman

Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman...

. The Sherman Brothers

Sherman Brothers

The Sherman Brothers are an American songwriting duo that specialize in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman ....

 also wrote the majority of famous Winnie the Pooh songs including songs like, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" and "Heffalumps and Woozles

Heffalumps and Woozles

"Heffalumps and Woozles" is a song from the 1968 Walt Disney musical film featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. It was written by the Sherman Brothers....

" from the 1960s. In 2000, the Sherman Brothers also famously wrote the score to The Tigger Movie

The Tigger Movie

The Tigger Movie is a 2000 animated comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Jun Falkenstein. Part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, this film features Pooh's friend Tigger in his search for his family tree and other Tiggers like himself...

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History of the song

This song was originally written in 1961 or 1962 for the Sherman Brothers

Sherman Brothers

The Sherman Brothers are an American songwriting duo that specialize in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman ....

' score for Mary Poppins. The song (along with many others) was cut from the motion picture but was used, nineteen years after Poppins premiered, in Welcome to Pooh Corner in 1983

1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

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Song placement

New episodes played from 1983-1986 in the first run. Reruns continued to air until 1997. The Sherman Brothers wrote five songs, one for each of the major characters to sing, repeatedly each week. A storyline would "belong" to one character and at the end of an episode, the appropriate character would sing his "lesson song".

About the song

"The Right Side" is sung by Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh , and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner...

. In the song, Pooh explains how he makes the best out of a bad situation.