When You Wish Upon A Star

Album: Pinocchio (1940)
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  • When you wish upon a star
    Makes no difference who you are
    Anything your heart desires
    Will come to you

    If your heart is in your dream
    No request is too extreme
    When you wish upon a star
    As dreamers do

    Fate is kind
    She brings to those who love
    The sweet fulfillment of
    Their secret longing

    Like a bolt out of the blue
    Fate steps in and sees you through
    When you wish upon a star
    Your dreams come true Writer/s: Leigh Harline, Ned Washington
    Publisher: BOURNE CO., Wahana Musik Indonesia (WAMI)
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Ellen K. from FloridaI've loved this song for over 70 years! Wonderful!
  • Marilyn from TallahasseeSo beautiful it makes me cry.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 16, 1959, Little Anthony and the Imperials performed "Wishful Thinking" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    The following month on March 23rd, 1959 the song entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #79, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and on it's second and final week on the Top 100 it was at #94...
    The record's B-side was also a 'wish' song, a covered version of "When You Wish Upon A Star", which won the Oscar for 'Best Original Song' in 1940, it was featured in the the Walt Disney movie 'Pinocchio'...
    Between 1958 and 1965 the New York City doo-wop group had nineteen records on the Top 100 chart, three made the Top 10; "Tears On My Pillow" {#4 in 1958}, "Goin' Out Of My Head" {#6 in 1964}, and "Hurts So Bad" {#10 in 1965}...
    And on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart they had thirteen hits with two reaching #2, "Tears On My Pillow" and "So Much", and both peaked in 1958...
    Jerome 'Little' Anthony Gourdine celebrated his 77th birthday last month on January 8th {2018}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 23rd 1960, Dion and the Belmonts performed at the Armory in Newark, New Jersey...
    At the time the trio's covered version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" was in its first week on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #85...
    {See the next post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 7th 1940, the Walt Disney animated movie "Pinocchio" had its world premier in New York City...
    Two days later on February 9th it had its west coast premier in Los Angeles; then fourteen days later on February 23rd it opened in theaters across the U.S.A.
    And twenty years later on April 19th, 1960 Dion & the Belmonts' covered version of "When You Wish Upon A Star" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #85; and on May 23rd it peaked at #30 (for 1 week) and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100.
  • Michael from Mcfarland, WiEven before his career in film, Cliff sold millions of records in the 1920s, most featuring just his amazing voice and uke playing. I don't think there is a comprehensive collection out there on cd, so I just keep buying 78s!
  • Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, CaWhat a masterpiece of arrangement..the orchestration for the soundtrack vocal,(Leigh Harline?) and Cliff really gives it a heartfelt performance...Genius!
  • Bill from Liverpool, EnglandThe story of Pinnochio was loosely based on the factual event, The Children's Crusade, which was the title of a song by Sting which came up just before this one as I searched randomly.
  • Mark from Lancaster, OhCliff Edwards was in _Gone With the Wind_, too.

    I was hoping for a new category: "More songs sung by cartoon insects."
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