Some Day My Prince Will Come
Some Day My Prince Will Come is a song from the Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937). The composition was written by Frank Churchill; the text was written by Larry Morey. The song was sung by Adriana Caselotti for film music; she was the voice of Snow White in the movie. In the German version of the 1994, the song title is If only my prince to me, sung by Alexandra Wilcke.
Animated by the success of the Disney film, the jazz pianist Dave Brubeck became the song for his album Dave Digs Disney.
Some Day My Prince Will Come quickly became popular with jazz musicians, Other recordings were made by Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, but also with Barbra Streisand. Especially protrudes recording from 1961 on the eponymous Miles Davis album with John Coltrane.
Besides created numerous instrumental recordings, such as by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler ( Salute to Disney, 1976) or - with song - by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of Erich Kunzel (A Disney Spectacular, 1989).
The first jazz instrumental version of Some Day My Prince Will Come is likely to come from the Ghetto Swingers from the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. From this concert, reports the author and musician Herbert Thomas Mandl, who has seen and heard this concert in the so-called coffee from Theresienstadt itself. The concert was originally entitled "Music by Frank Churchill ." Since the Nazis were able to interpret this as a provocation, the concert's title was changed to " Music from the film 'Snow White' Walt Disney '
Auswahldiskographie
- Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Frank Churchill, Larry Morey: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Victor, 1938)
- Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia, 1961)
- Bill Evans: Portrait In Jazz ( OJC / Riverside, 1959)
- Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra: Salute to Disney ( Decca / PolyGram, 1976)
- Keith Jarrett: Still Live (ECM, 1986)
- Lucy Diakovska: I wait for you my Prince (2009 )