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"Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by British composers Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie. [1] It was sung by Gene Wilder who played the character of Willy Wonka. Bricusse has stated that the song was written over the phone in one day. [2]
On 14 November 2023, a sneak peek of Chalamet singing "Pure Imagination" from the 1971 film was released, further revealing that it would be featured in the film and the album. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The soundtrack was released by WaterTower Music on 8 December 2023, a week prior to the United States release. [ 5 ]
Willy Wonka introduces himself to the audience and summons his Oompa-Loompa workers, announcing that he is retiring and he must choose a new successor when he does ("Pure Imagination" / "The Golden Age of Chocolate"). Wonka, acting as narrator, introduces the impoverished Bucket family: Mr. and Mrs. Bucket, their young son Charlie, and Charlie ...
Their track "There's a Better Place" samples the song "Pure Imagination" from the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. [ 8 ] Their track "Stop Space Return" was released as iTunes UK's single of the week on 28 October 2008.
Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013. In 2015, it went to the St James Theatre, London. [20] Bricusse was inducuted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989. [21]
Pure Imagination is a 1992 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein of ... Composition and Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley; References This page ...
Pure Imagination (Eric Reed album), 1998; Pure Imagination (Michael Feinstein album), 1992; Pure Imagination, a 2004–2007 series of compilation albums from Utopia Records "Come with Me (Pure Imagination)", a 2016 song by Karmin “Pure Imagination”, a 1999 remixed version of the Brenda K. Starr song "I Still Believe"
The animated film features a cover version of "Pure Imagination" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) by Fiona Apple, [4] a song originally performed by Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), itself an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964).