““When You Wish Upon a Star” is one of those songs, like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” that’s bigger than a song.
“It was first heard, of course, in the 1940 Walt Disney animated classic “Pinocchio,” where it was sung by Jiminy Cricket.
“Disney made it the company theme song in the ’50s, and since the early ’80s it has been featured in the studio’s motion-picture logo.”
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