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"A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney film Cinderella (1950). [1] In the song, Cinderella (voiced by Ilene Woods ) [ 2 ] encourages her animal friends never to stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story.
"Once Upon a Dream" was covered by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey for the dark fantasy film Maleficent (2014), which serves as a re-imagining of the original 1959 film. The song was released on January 26, 2014; it was made available as a free digital download during its first week of availability by the Google Play Store. [11]
The song was covered by John Williams for Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg himself called Williams's work "When You Wish Upon a Star meets science fiction". [citation needed] The song was covered by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons on his self-titled 1978 solo album. "It spoke to me," he declared.
“When You Wish Upon a Star” is one of those songs, like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” that’s bigger than a song. It was first heard, of course, in the 1940 Walt Disney animated classic ...
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes ; Part of Your World (The Little Mermaid) A Whole New World ; Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty) I'm Wishing/One Song (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) Colors of the Wind ; Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Reflection ; Like Other Girls
When You Wish Upon a Star – Cinderella (Jennifer Hale), Snow White (Carolyn Gardner), Ariel (Jodi Benson), Peter Pan (Blayne Weaver), Pinocchio (Michael Welch), and Aladdin (Scott Weinger) all share their dreams and fondest wishes, accompanied by musical motif from their respective films: "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "I'm Wishing ...
"A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" - Ilene Woods (from Cinderella) "Beauty and the Beast" - Angela Lansbury (from Beauty and the Beast) "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" - Kristle Edwards, Joseph Williams, Sally Dworsky, Nathan Lane, and Ernie Sabella (from The Lion King) "Once Upon a Dream" - Mary Costa (from Sleeping Beauty)
"Wish" self-consciously packs 85 years of animated magic into a portable Disney fable. Does that make it a summation or a pastiche? A movie marbled with pop history or overstuffed with Easter eggs?