"Some Day My Prince Will Come" is a popular song from Walt Disney's 1937 animated movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was written by Larry Morey (lyrics) & Frank Churchill (music), and performed by Adriana Caselotti (Snow White's voice in the movie).
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Overview
This song first appears 57:56 into the movie, when Princess Snow White sings a bedtime song for the dwarfs after their small party. It later appears when Snow White is making a pie and once more in a more formal version when The Prince takes Snow White away at the end.
The American Film Institute listed this song at #19 on their list of the 100 greatest songs in movie history. Following "When You Wish Upon A Star" from Pinocchio, this is the second highest ranked song from a Disney movie.
As a jazz standard
In 1957, the jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, inspired by an anthology of Disney tunes owned by his child, included a version of the song on the album Dave Digs Disney.
The song quickly became popular amongst jazz musicians, who considered its chord sequence to be particularly satisfying.[citation needed] Later versions were recorded by Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, and many times by Herbie Hancock, who would use it as the basis for a virtuoso showpiece display.
The recording on the 1961 Miles Davis album, Someday My Prince Will Come, features a pedal point interlude between choruses that has often been imitated.
Lena Horne sang a haunting version with the Robert Farnon Orchestra and Phil Woods on the album "Lena A New Album" in 1976
The Chet Baker Trio recorded an album called Someday My Prince Will Come in 1979.
Pop covers
- Anastacia covered the song in the DisneyMania compilation.
- Ashley Tisdale covered the song in the DisneyMania 4 compilation album with Drew Seeley on backup vocals.
- Barbra Streisand sings a version with altered lyrics in the 2001 DVD/Video Platinum Edition Release of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
- cover version by J-pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki exists.
- The Cheetah Girls covered the song for the DisneyMania 6 compilation.[1]
- In 2005, Julie Andrews recorded the song for her album "Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs".
- Sinéad O'Connor covered the song for the 1988 compilation Stay Awake.
- Thelma Aoyama covered the song in her single Todoketai.../Kono Mama Zutto.
- There also is another version of the song sung by Tiffany Thornton for the 2009 DVD/Blu-Ray release of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Tanya Tucker on The Best of Country Sings the Best of Disney album.
Ayumi Hamasaki version
| "Someday My Prince Will Come" | |
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| Single by Ayumi Hamasaki | |
| Released | 2002 |
"Someday My Prince Will Come" is a cover of the Some Day My Prince Will Come by Ayumi Hamasaki. Never for sale[2], the song was used by Disney in a promotional video for the re-release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Japan.[3]
The Cheetah Girls version
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" was covered by The Cheetah Girls for the album, DisneyMania 6.
References
See also
External links
- List of covers of Some Day My Prince Will Come at Allmusic
- http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_allendisney.html - 1941 plagiarism case
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