If You Can Dream
| "If You Can Dream" | |
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| Song by Susan Stevens Logan, Christie Hauser, Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Judy Kuhn, and Lea Salonga | |
| Released | 2004 |
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| Recorded | 2004 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 4:01 |
| Label | Walt Disney |
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"If You Can Dream" is the first song that was originally written and recorded specifically for the Disney Princess media franchise. It was written, produced, and arranged by Robbie Buchanan and Jay Landers. It was first released on the album Disney Princess: The Ultimate Song Collection.
The song is sung from the point of view of the first eight official Disney Princesses (though only seven of them actually sing, excluding Snow White, who is just featured in the video). It has been featured on several Disney music CDs, and its music video is present on nearly every Disney Princess DVD, as either an extra or a Sing-Along, and has been shown numerous times on the Disney Channel, It Is Also One Of The Songs For Magenta 2004. To this day the song still plays on the official Disney Princess website.
The song has been covered by teen country singer Ashley Gearing, and a shorter altered version performed by a different set of singers is featured in the ongoing Disney on Ice show Princess Wishes as the show finale.
One of the most notable aspects of the song is that all but three of the princesses's original voice actresses reprise their singing roles. Unsurprisingly, due to the age of the films, Adriana Caselotti, Ilene Woods and Mary Costa do not reprise their roles as Snow White, Cinderella and Princess Aurora. Notably, Lea Salonga, who provided the singing voice of both Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Mulan in Mulan reprises both roles in this song.
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