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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, a young aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier, arrives at the Galéries Gourmet with dreams of establishing his own chocolate shop.Burning through his meager savings, Wonka is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by her co-worker Bleacher and, despite Scrubitt's foster daughter Noodle's warning about the small print, signs a contract because he is illiterate.
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"
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]
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).
The song is a cover remix of Pure Imagination, specifically written for the 1971 American movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, by British composers Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, and sung by Gene Wilder, who played the title character. The 2016 song was written by Amy Heidemann, Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, and Nick Noonan, and ...
Pure Imagination is a 1998 album by jazz pianist Eric Reed released through Impulse! Records . This album contains reinterpretations ( remakes ) of traditional pop songs from classic Broadway and Hollywood productions such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , Porgy and Bess , A Little Night Music among others.