"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 song has since appeared on several Disney CDs, both in the original soundtrack version and as recorded by other artists, including Perry Como, Bette Midler, Julie Andrews and Kimberley Locke.
Circle of Stars
"A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" has also been recorded by the Disney "Disney Channel Circle of Stars," a group consisting of performers from a number of Disney Channel television series. The roster for the Circle of Stars varies from session to session, but for this particular recording is as follows:
Stars from That's So Raven
- Raven-Symoné
- Orlando Brown
- Anneliese van der Pol
- Ricky Ullman (one episode)
Stars from Phil of the Future
- Alyson Michalka
- Ricky Ullman
- Amy Bruckner
- Orlando Brown (one episode)
Stars from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
- Dylan Sprouse
- Cole Sprouse
- Ashley Tisdale
- Brenda Song
Stars from The Proud Family
- Kyla Pratt
- Orlando Brown
- Raven-Symoné (one episode)
Stars from American Dragon Jake Long
Book and TV Movie
Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello's 1994 autobiography is named after this song from Cinderella. The full title of the book, which was co-written by Patricia Romanowski, is A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story (ISBN 0-786-88092-9). An abridged version of the book on audio cassette was released the same year. A made-for-TV movie based on the book, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, was made in 1995.
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