The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band is a 1968 musical film based on a biography by Laura Bower Van Nuys, directed by Michael O'Herlihy, with original music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers. Set against the backdrop of the 1888 presidential election, the film portrays the musically talented Bower family: American pioneers who settle in the Dakota Territory. Originally planned as a two-part television show titled The Family Band, the project was based on a book by Laura Bower Van Nuys. The memoir by Van Nuys, the youngest of the Bower children, described her family's brass band,... their journey out of Missouri, and their frontier life in the Black Hills. Walt Disney had asked the Sherman Brothers for their help on the project, feeling the story was too flat. The Shermans wrote the song "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band", which was ultimately used as the title of the motion picture. After hearing the song, Disney decided to add more songs to the film and turn it into a musical.
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| Release date: | March 21, 1968 |
| Directed by: | Michael O'Herlihy |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Editor: | Cotton Warburton |
| Screenplay by: | Lowell S. Hawley |
| Adapted from: | Nebraska |
| Genre: | Musical, Comedy |