When You Wish Upon a Star has maintained its place in the public imagination since 1940.

Edwards, soprano Julietta Novis, and The King's Men recorded a version for Decca Records that became a huge hit. He hired Edwards, a famous singer who went by the stage name Ukulele Ike, to play Jiminy Cricket, and he had songwriters Leigh Harline and Ned Washington write the wistful tune and heartfelt lyrics. Still, Disney was a shrewd businessman, and he knew that a hit song would help sell the movie to the public. Besides When You Wish Upon a Star, there is the Jiminy Cricket and Pinocchio duet on 'Give a Little Whistle,' and Pinocchio's solo number, 'I've Got No Strings.' Disney believed that audiences would be turned off by constant musical numbers, so he only allowed a few songs in Pinocchio. Disney felt that audiences were already being asked to defy logic with Pinocchio's fairy tale story of a wooden marionette coming to life, and he wanted the story to be grounded in reality as much as possible. The early Disney movies are not the full-fledged musicals of later films (obviously, Disney's other 1940 masterpiece, Fantasia, is the exception to this rule) in fact, Disney resisted putting too many songs in movies, according to The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson. The brief appearance of When You Wish Upon a Star in Pinocchio fits in with Walt Disney's movie making philosophy.

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