Make Mine Music segment featured animation originally intended for "Fantasia" using the Claude Debussy musical composition "Clair de Lune" from Suite bergamasque. It featured two egrets flying through the Everglades on a moonlit night. However, by the time "Make Mine Music" was released "Clair de Lune" was replaced by the new song "Blue Bayou", performed by the Ken Darby Singers. However, the original version of the segment still survives. This segment was one of two sections in which Benny Goodman and his Orchestra contributed. Their music played over visuals that were drawn by a pencil as the action occurred. The scene portrayed teens
Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) aside, Satie was painstaking in his efforts to redevelop these old musical forms in modern terms, harmonically and structurally. He rejected the first movement he completed, an untitled 31-bar chorale in G Major, and experimented with several fugue subjects (including a quotation of the folksong "Au clair de la lune") for the "Fugue à tâtons". In his analysis of Satie's composing methods Robert Orledge remarked on "how ordinary his first thoughts often were", and this certainly applies to the "Choses vues". Satie's original order for the pieces - "Fantaisie", "Choral", "Fugue" - would have given the suite a conventional fast-slow-fast