WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

Created on 02/05/2004
Latest update on 08/02/2019

Artist: Cliff Edwards
Author: Ned Washington/Leigh Harline
Label: Disney
Year: 1940

In Disney film Pinocchio. Edwards dubbing for Jiminy Cricket. That's the same Edwards who sometimes performed as Ukelele Ike and who first charted with Singing In The Rain (see there).

Covers:

1940:

Glenn Miller [vocal: Roy Eberle]

1940:

John McCormack

1940:

Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights

1940:

Vera Lynn

1952:

Rosemary Clooney [with Harry James]

1959:

Little Anthony & The Imperials

1960:

Dion & The Belmonts

1960:

June Christy

1962:

Bill Evans Trio

1963:

Stevie Wonder

1964:

Sonny Rollins

1966:

Freddie & The Dreamers

1968:

Louis Armstrong

1968:

Chet Atkins

1978:

Kate Bush [in In Search Of Peter Pan]

1981:

Leon Redbone

1984:

Wynton Marsalis

1986:

Linda Ronstadt

1988:

Ringo Starr & Herb Alpert

1991:

Billy Joel

1995:

All-4-One

2000:

Manhattan Transfer

2002:

N'Sync

2009:

Jim Dickinson

2009:

Lobos

2010:

Celtic Thunder

2011:

Brian Wilson

2012:

Rod Stewart

2017:

Gregory Porter [on Jazz Loves Disney]

This song was also used as themesong for the Disney tv shows.

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