A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
| "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" | |
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| Single by Ilene Woods | |
| from the album Cinderella (1950 film soundtrack) | |
| Released | 1950 |
| Format | LP record |
| Recorded | 1950 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 3:50 |
| Writer(s) |
Mack David Al Hoffman Jerry Livingston |
| "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" | ||||
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| Single by Disney Channel Circle of Stars | ||||
| from the album DisneyMania 4 | ||||
| Released | November 21, 2005 | |||
| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||
| Recorded | February 20, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Dance-pop, R&B | |||
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| Label | Walt Disney | |||
| Writer(s) | Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston | |||
| Disney Channel Circle of Stars singles chronology | ||||
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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). In the song Cinderella (as sung by Ilene Woods) encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story. The theme of the song was taken from Franz Liszt's Etude No. 9 Ricordanza of the Transcendental Etudes. This song was also performed by Lily James for the soundtrack of the live-action version of Cinderella in 2015.
Thematically, the lyrics recall the sentiments expressed in "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940). In equating a dream with a wish, the song establishes that Cinderella is using the word "dream" in the metaphorical sense of desires that can, as the lyric promises, "come true." "When You Wish Upon A Star" makes this same promise, as does other Disney material, such as the fireworks show Remember... Dreams Come True and related promotions. The literal meaning of the word, as something that happens "when you're fast asleep", reappears in another Disney song, "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty (1959).
The original version appears on a CD of the original soundtrack, as well as several compilations. Ilene Woods with Harold Mooney and his Orchestra recorded the song in Hollywood on October 26, 1949. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 31-0014B (in USA) and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog numbers B 9971, SG 272, HM 2753, JK 2679, SAB 7 and EA 3914.
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