Pee-Wee and the Tramp

While at Grandma and Grandpa’s house last week, we watched The Lady and the Tramp with the kids. Hey, that’s a good movie!

They had it on VHS—old school!

The score by Oliver Wallace is charming, and when the main “playful” theme for Lady came in, I was like, wait, I know this melody. It starts at 0:27 of the above.

But I hadn’t seen the film, or heard the soundtrack, since I was a kid myself.

Then I remembered...

And I see that the top comment on the Pee-Wee video is all about the similarity.

My question to film-score land: Has this come up before? Did Danny do it on purpose or did he just accidentally quote something from the recesses of memory?

Either is fine, really. Just curious!