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Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon A Star
Matched version: When You Wish Upon A Star (solo piano arr.)
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Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon A Star Music Sheet
Explore the Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon A Star virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes. When You Wish Upon a Star was written for Disney's 1940 animated film Pinocchio, with music by Leigh Harline and lyrics by Ned Washington. The catalog's Misc Cartoons label is a broad bucket and is not the authorship credit for the song. Cliff Edwards performs the song as Jiminy Cricket in the film, where it frames the story's opening and closing. That Cliff Edwards/Jiminy Cricket recording later became one of Disney's signature songs and was entered into the U.S. National Recording Registry, giving the recording a history beyond the film itself. The selected catalog source is listed as a solo-piano arrangement, though the accessible score metadata does not establish its community provenance. Its keyboard setting is a later reduction of a vocal and orchestral film song, not the original instrumentation.
About Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon A Star
Explore the Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon A Star virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes.
When You Wish Upon a Star was written for Disney's 1940 animated film Pinocchio, with music by Leigh Harline and lyrics by Ned Washington. The catalog's Misc Cartoons label is a broad bucket and is not the authorship credit for the song.
Cliff Edwards performs the song as Jiminy Cricket in the film, where it frames the story's opening and closing. That Cliff Edwards/Jiminy Cricket recording later became one of Disney's signature songs and was entered into the U.S. National Recording Registry, giving the recording a history beyond the film itself.
The selected catalog source is listed as a solo-piano arrangement, though the accessible score metadata does not establish its community provenance. Its keyboard setting is a later reduction of a vocal and orchestral film song, not the original instrumentation.
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Who wrote When You Wish Upon a Star?
Leigh Harline wrote the music and Ned Washington wrote the lyrics.
Where did the song first appear?
It was written for Disney's 1940 animated film Pinocchio and is performed in the film by Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket.
Did the song win an Academy Award?
Yes. It won Best Original Song at the 1941 Academy Awards, honoring films released in 1940.
What does the piano score represent?
It is a solo-piano arrangement of the film song, not the original vocal and orchestral recording; the accessible score metadata does not establish its community provenance.