Cliff Edwards - "When You Wish Upon a Star" (1940)

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I'm sure you all have heard this song at some point in your lives. It was sung by the actor Cliff Edwards who had voiced Jiminy Crickett in Disney's "Pinocchio". It also Walt Disney Company's official theme song.

The American Film Institute ranked "When You Wish Upon a Star" seventh in their 100 Greatest Songs in Film History, the highest ranked of only four Disney animated film songs to appear on the list, the others being "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ranked at No. 19, "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast ranked at No. 62, and "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King, ranked at No. 99.  The song reached the top five in Billboard's Record Buying Guide, a predecessor of the retail sales chart. The Library Of Congress deemed the song "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and preserved it into the National Recording Registry in 2009.