Someday My Prince Will Come

This article is about the song. For the Miles Davis album, see Someday My Prince Will Come (Miles Davis album). For the Wynton Kelly album, see Someday My Prince Will Come (Wynton Kelly album). For the Chet Baker album, see Someday My Prince Will Come (Chet Baker album).

"Someday My Prince Will Come"
Song

"Someday 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). It was also featured in the 1979 stage adaptation of the 1937 animated musical movie. In AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, it was ranked as the 19th greatest film song of all time.

Overview

This song first appears 57:40 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 at #7, this is the second highest ranked song from a Disney movie out of four, with the other two being "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast at #62 and "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King at #99. The song was then briefly sung on the 1971 sitcom All In The Family by Edith Bunker in the episode Archie's Weighty Problem.

As a jazz standard

• Chet Baker – Someday My Prince Will Come (1979)
• Dave Brubeck – Dave Digs Disney (1957)
• Stanley Clarke recorded a cover on the album Jazz in the Garden
• Miles Davis – Someday My Prince Will Come (1961)
• Al Di Meola – World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants (1993)
• Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz (1959)
• Herbie Hancock – The Piano (1978)
• Lena Horne with Phil Woods and the Robert Farnon Orchestra – A New Album (1976)
• Keith Jarrett – Still Live (1986) and Up for It (2002)
• Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson – Reunion Blues (1971)
• Jack Pleis – Music from Disneyland (1955)
• Sun Ra – Second Star to the Right (1989)
• Cassandra Wilson – Traveling Miles (1999)

Pop covers

• Gracie Fields (1937)
• Diana Ross & The Supremes in 1967 for their proposed, yet unreleased album Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing Disney Classics.
• Patricia Paay, in 1976, released a disco version.
• Sinéad O'Connor, for the 1988 compilation Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films.
• Tanya Tucker, on the 1996 compilation album The Best of Country Sing the Best of Disney.
• Barbra Streisand, with altered lyrics in the 2001 DVD/Video Platinum Edition release of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs; as part of a Disney medley on the CD "Barbra: The Concert" (Sony, 1994), and a studio recorded version included found on "The Essential Barbra Streisand" compilation (Sony, 2002).
• Anastacia, on the 2002 DisneyMania compilation and on Freak of Nature: Collector's Edition.
• Ayumi Hamasaki, in 2002 as "Someday My Prince Will Come". Never for sale, the song was used by Disney in a promotional video for the re-release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Japan.
• Julie Andrews, for her 2005 album Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs.
• Ashley Tisdale, in 2006 for the DisneyMania 4 compilation album with Drew Seeley on backup vocals.
• The Cheetah Girls, in 2008 for the DisneyMania 6 compilation.
• Thelma Aoyama, in 2009 as the B-side on her single "Todoketai.../Kono Mama Zutto".
• Tiffany Thornton, for the 2009 DVD/Blu-ray release of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards

External links

• Disney Sing-Along on YouTube (on Disney's official channel)
• http://mcir.usc.edu/cases/1940-1949/Pages/allenwaltdisney.html - 1941 plagiarism case
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