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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 Weinstein" is the twenty-second and final episode of the third season of the American animated series Family Guy, and the 50th episode overall. The episode was intended to air on Fox in 2000, but Fox's executives expressed concern due to the content's potential to be interpreted as anti-Semitic , and did not allow it to ...
Till We Meet Again" is an American popular song. The music was written by Richard A. Whiting, the lyrics by Raymond B. Egan in 1918. Written during the Great War, the song tells of the parting of a soldier and his sweetheart. The title comes from the final line of the chorus: Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu,
Arnold Weinstein (June 10, 1927 – September 4, 2005) was an American poet, playwright, and librettist, who referred to himself as a "theatre poet". [1]Weinstein is best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the operas McTeague, based on the novel by Frank Norris, A View from the Bridge based on the play by Arthur Miller, and A Wedding, based on the film by ...
The song was used in the wedding scene of the NBC mini-series, Witness to the Mob, in 1998. The song was also used prominently in The Freshman, via both Cole's recording and a performance during the film by Bert Parks. A snippet of the song's lyric was used in the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed movie, Hard Boiled in 1992. It is used by an ...
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches , generally being played on a church pipe organ .
Fred Astaire recorded "The Way You Look To-night" in Los Angeles on July 26, 1936. [11] Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded the song as a duet on August 19. [12] To take advantage of the song's success, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio 10 weeks after the film Swing Time was released. Holiday was 21 when she ...
"Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. [1] It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year, [1] [2] and has been recorded by numerous artists since then.