Although Walt's original idea called for all of the dolls to sing their own national anthem, this idea proved unsuccessful. The dolls singing different songs led to disoriented and unpleasant soundtrack. Walt then turned to the Sherman Brothers to create a song for the attraction. He showed the brothers a scale model of the attraction and told them he wanted something like "Row Row Your Boat" which would be catchy and also easily translatable. Imagineer Harriet Burns has since stated that she heard Walt say “it’s a small world after all” to describe the tone that he wanted the song to have. Although the Sherman Brothers were not sure about the song they had written, titled "it's a small world after all", Walt said "That will work" which Disney employees knew was high praise. In fact Walt liked the song so much that he changed the name of the attraction to mach it.
[[Image:worldfair.jpg|thumb|200px|"it's a small world" as it appeared at the 1964 World's Fair.]]