Some Day My Prince Will Come

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Some Day My Prince Will Come (commonly used is also Someday My Prince Will Come ) is a song from the Walt Disney -Zeichentrickfilm Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , 1937). The composition was written by Frank Churchill ; the text is by Larry Morey . The song was sung by Adriana Caselotti for the score; she was the voice of Snow White in the movie. In the German version from 1994, the song title is Come on my Prince to me , sung by Alexandra Wilcke .

Function and characteristics of the song

Frank Churchill and Larry Morey wrote eight songs for Disney's Snow White film. Some Day My Prince Will Come not only contained the love theme, which was resumed at the end of the film, but is also used for the film's background music. The piece is a 32-bar waltz written in the ABAC song form . According to Hans-Jürgen Schaal , the melody is "an almost Viennese tearful scrap with enthusiastic ascending thirds , fourths , fifths and sixths ."

Further interpretations

The first jazz instrumental version of Some Day My Prince Will Come was probably made by the ghetto swingers from the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. The author and musician Herbert Thomas Mandl reports on this concert, who saw and heard this concert himself in the so-called coffee house in Theresienstadt. The concert was originally entitled “Music by Frank Churchill”. Since the Nazis could take this as a provocation, the title of the concert was changed to "Music from the film 'Snow White' by Walt Disney".

Animated by his sons, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck took over 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 . The 1961 recording on the Miles Davis album of the same name with John Coltrane stands out .

In addition, numerous instrumental recordings were made, for example by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler ( Salute to Disney , 1976) or - with vocals - by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of Erich Kunzel ( A Disney Spectacular , 1989).

Selection discography

  • 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)
  • Bill Evans: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (Verve, 1968)
  • Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra: Salute to Disney (Decca / PolyGram, 1976)
  • Keith Jarrett : Still Live (ECM, 1986)
  • Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra: A Disney Spectacular (Telarc, 1989)
  • Lucy Diakovska : I'm waiting for you my prince (2009)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal Jazz Standards. The encyclopedia. Kassel 2004, p. 440
  2. ↑ Traces to Theresienstadt - Tracks to Terezín , documentary about the survivor of the Holocaust Herbert Thomas Mandl , interview and direction: Herbert Gantschacher . Camera: Robert Schabus ; Editing: Erich Heyduck, DVD in German and English; ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt, 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyN-oAby5VI

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