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Anyway, way back in the year 1977 (the same year that George Lucas' original Star Wars movie came out on 32 to 40 movie theaters and unexpectedly became the most gigantic hit of the land during the summer of 1977 and the following years), while working on the classic science fiction movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"...

 

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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his music composer John Williams had this Disney song in mind:

 

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The very sounds of Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards as Jiminy Cricket singing the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio and written by Ned Washington and Leigh Harline.

Here's more info about that song as well as the lyrics and the linked video:

 

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/cliff-edwards/when-you-wish-upon-a-star

 

 

 

Classic, isn't it, folks?

Anyway, I don't know about you guys, but as for me...

Just as both Steven Spielberg and John Williams had the Disney song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio in mind while working on Close Encounters of the Third Kind way back in 1977...

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As for myself, in more modern times like this, and I hate to be off-topic here, but while I was working on a rather whimsical idea involving three young men or brothers who flew themselves through outer space in a flying white Chevrolet Equinox car to escape the turmoil into which the planet Earth has fallen...

 

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I was looking for a song that could help connect any or all of my ideas and concepts and elements that I was trying to assemble for 14 years and counting and help meld any or all of them into a unified whole, and what I always have in mind could well be one of my favorite songs from my own childhood.

 

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And that song I'm talking about in question could be "Dreams to Dream (Tanya's Version)" as sung by The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's original voice actress Cathy Cavadini and written by the late James Horner and Will Jennings for the rather obscure and forgotten 1991 Steven Spielberg-produced animated movie An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

 

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You see, every time I hear Fievel's sister Tanya's version of the song "Dreams to Dream" from the movie "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West", as sung by Cathy Cavadini, I hope that everything will fall into place very soon as far as my dream epic movie project, the title of which I have yet to finalize, and especially as far as giving the epic movie or story of my dreams the hook I'm looking for.

 

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But in addition to Tanya's version of Dreams to Dream as sung by Cathy Cavadini in the actual An American Tail: Fievel Goes West movie itself...

 

 

 

There is also the version as sung in the end credits of that movie by Linda Ronstadt...

 

 

As well as the rendition of that song as heard in the An American Tail: A Musical Adventure with Fievel and Friends companion soundtrack album that they put out around the time of Fievel Goes West's 1991 theatrical release.

 

 

Beautiful song, isn't it, folks?  

 

Anyway, and I hate to be off-topic once again, but I was thinking...

 

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Not only I wanted to pretty much hang the epic film or story of my dreams on the mood that song "Dreams to Dream (Tanya's Version)" from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West created, and especially the way it affected me personally and emotionally, but if I do, say, use the actual vintage Cathy Cavadini recording of Tanya's version of the song "Dreams to Dream" from Fievel Goes West on the soundtrack during one sequence for my dream epic movie when the Chevrolet Equinox car magically flies away from Earth's atmosphere to ride towards outer space -- then in effect, [almost] similar to how John Williams' music score for Steven Spielberg's 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind quoted Disney's Pinocchio's When You Wish Upon A Star, my possible usage of "Dreams to Dream (Tanya's Version)" by Cathy Cavadini from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West in my dream epic film -- especially on the soundtrack during one such sequence for such a thing where the Chevrolet Equinox car (with the aforementioned three young men or brothers inside) magically flies away from Earth towards outer space -- well, all that could hopefully turn an already beautiful piece of music from some obscure and forgotten animated movie produced by Steven Spielberg at the beginning of the 1990s, ( in my case, "Dreams to Dream (Tanya's Version)" from 1991's An American Tail: Fievel Goes West) into something even more breathtakingly beautiful than what it already is, especially through a different environment like outer space.

 

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But even so, then, I will always have the song "Dreams to Dream" (especially the version sung by Cathy Cavadini as Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewtiz) from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West in my mind not only for my dream epic film production, but also for that flying Chevrolet Equinox car space travel scene that I hope to include in my dream epic movie idea, similar to the way that Steven Spielberg and John Williams always had the Disney song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio in their minds while they were working on the 1977 classic sci-fi movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

 

Anyway, apologies for the long post, but the question is:

 

What would you really think if you happen to hear the song "Dreams to Dream (Tanya's Version)" from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West playing on the soundtrack during a scene in my dream epic movie where the Chevrolet Equinox car (with three young men or brothers inside the vehicle) flies  or rides through outer space on the big movie theater screen and especially with the likes of Disney/Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (or ILM for short) or someplace contributing some breathtakingly beautiful effects movie magic to such a scene as the Chevrolet Equinox car magically flying through space set to Cathy Cavadini's rendition of Tanya's version of the song Dreams to Dream from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West playing on the soundtrack?

Well, wouldn't all that be breathtakingly beautiful or something else entirely if such a movie scene ever do come true? Just wondering...
 

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I think the song Dreams To Dream from the animated film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, especially sung by Cathy Cavadini, is a great song from the early 90s that people have long forgotten from the Spielberg-produced film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, that was released in 1991. 

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1 minute ago, Koray Savas said:

I think the song Dreams To Dream from the animated film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, especially sung by Cathy Cavadini, is a great song from the early 90s that people have long forgotten from the Spielberg-produced film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, that was released in 1991. 

 

 I agree with you on that statement, Koray Savas! ;)

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2 minutes ago, SteveMc said:

Just a disclaimer, y'all, I have nothing to do with this!

 

I'm not sure what to do at first. I know the song that I'm talking about is long forgotten compared to Pinocchio's When You Wish Upon a Star or the first American Tail's Somewhere Out There, but Dreams to Dream, especially the Cathy Cavadini version, is a very beautiful song nonetheless.

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58 minutes ago, timbox129 said:

the same year that George Lucas' original Star Wars movie came out on 32 to 40 movie theaters and unexpectedly became the most gigantic hit

 

Yeah, because studio executives were just giving George money simply to keep him amused.

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1 minute ago, Chen G. said:

 

Yeah, because studio executives were just giving George money simply to keep him amused.

 

And plus, nobody back in the 1970s except for Spielberg predicted that Star Wars is going to be this big huge blockbuster hit, but it ended up being such a big huge phenomenon anyway! 

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Except they did, or they wouldn't have green-lit it. The only doubt was as to just how big it will be.

 

Everything else is your typical (trademarked) Lucas-histrionically-overglorifying-his-own-creation-after-the-fact.

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3 hours ago, Chen G. said:

Yeah, because studio executives were just giving George money simply to keep him amused.

Is this really all you picked up on out of that entire post?

 

What about Dreams To Dream, especially sung by Cathy Cavadini?!

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34 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

Is this really all you picked up on out of that entire post?

 

What about Dreams To Dream, especially sung by Cathy Cavadini?!

 

Yeah, that and When You Wish Upon a Star influencing Spielberg and Williams' work on Close Encounters' music!

 

3 hours ago, Chen G. said:

Except they did, or they wouldn't have green-lit it. The only doubt was as to just how big it will be.

 

Everything else is your typical (trademarked) Lucas-histrionically-overglorifying-his-own-creation-after-the-fact.

 

BTW, Chen G., just try to stick with the program here.

 

Anyway, in that movie the aforementioned An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewitz has wanted to be -- of all things -- a singer, right?

 

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Well, guess what? In that aforementioned Fievel Goes West movie, she finally gets her chance and opportunity to sing when, one day, a cat, of all creatures, happened to discover Tanya's rather beautiful and very nice singing chops as she sang the song "Dreams to Dream" outside the unfinished violin shop...

 

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Oh boy! Tanya Mousekewitz sure has some beautiful singing chops right here! mark 2.jpg

 

And Tanya Mousekewitz gets to perform and sing a song called "The Girl You Left Behind" in, of all places, a saloon! Get it?!

 

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A saloon bar, of all places, dummies!

 

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That's also why Tanya wants to be a singer in Fievel Goes West, and she got her chance and opportunity to sing in the movie!

 

And don't forget that Disney Dust effect inspired by Disney's 1950 Cinderella when Tanya cleans up nicely in the mirror!

 

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I was just kidding, but you get what I mean, especially, Dreams to Dream from Fievel Goes West, especially as sung by Cathy Cavadini (aka Blossom of the Powerpuff Girls)?

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21 hours ago, Not Mr. Big said:

Agreed

 

Yep. And I don't know about what everyone else thinks of it, but as for the song that I was talking about -- 'Dreams to Dream' -- especially Tanya Mousekewitz's version as sung by Cathy Cavadini (aka The Powerpuff Girls' leader Blossom on Cartoon Network) in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West...

 

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That song (Dreams to Dream from Fievel Goes West, no less) is to me, myself, and I what Pinocchio's When You Wish Upon A Star as sung by Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket in the 1940 Disney film was to Steven Spielberg especially way back when Spielberg himself was making Close Encounters of the Third Kind back in the 70s.

 

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(The linked video is a deleted scene from the 1980 special edition reissue of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind)

 

If Steven Spielberg really like the song When You Wish Upon A Star from Disney's 1940 Pinocchio so much, then I, for one, really like Dreams to Dream from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West so much -- especially Tanya's version as sung by Cathy Cavadini, in particular, even though the Dreams to Dream song has been and still is long forgotten compared to Pinocchio's When You Wish Upon a Star or even the first An American Tail's Somewhere Out There, but still!

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No question now that this is a bot, the real question is what ad or scam will it try to push on us?

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6 minutes ago, Jay said:

Image result for is this real life

 

4 minutes ago, Holko said:

No question now that this is a bot, the real question is what ad or scam will it try to push on us?

 

I was actually just kidding with you guys, for this idea of mine might not be real life, but I was actually talking about how I like the song "Dreams to Dream" from Fievel Goes West so much, similar to how Spielberg liked the song When You Wish Upon a Star so much.

 

In no way am I a bot nor is it my intention to push an ad or a scam on you guys. I am a human being like you and it is just that I was talking about Dreams to Dream from Fievel Goes West. That's all.

 

P.S. I was actually discussing a long forgotten but beautiful song from an equally long forgotten Spielberg-produced animated movie from the early 90s.

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2 minutes ago, timbox129 said:

P.S. I was actually discussing a long forgotten but beautiful song from an equally long forgotten Spielberg-produced animated movie from the early 90s.

Really? Which one? Surely not the beautiful Dreams to Dream by Cathy Cavadini?

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44 minutes ago, Holko said:

Really? Which one? Surely not the beautiful Dreams to Dream by Cathy Cavadini?

 

Well, lucky you, Holko, This is what I am talking about:

 

 

 

 

Dreams to Dream is from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), BTW.

 

43 minutes ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

He was discussing the DK Rap.

 

Actually, no, Kasey, I am not talking about the Donkey Kong rap, mind you, I am discussing a song called Dreams to Dream from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

 

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That song is to me what When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio was to Steven Spielberg and his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, especially. That's all.

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Talking about what? The song "Dreams to Dream", written by James Horner and Will Jennings, as sung by Cathy Cavadini as Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewtiz from the 1991 Steven Spielberg-produced, animated pseudo-classic film, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West?

 

Or something else?

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1 hour ago, Smeltington said:

Talking about what? The song "Dreams to Dream", written by James Horner and Will Jennings, as sung by Cathy Cavadini as Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewtiz from the 1991 Steven Spielberg-produced, animated pseudo-classic film, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West?

 

Or something else?

 

Actually all I am talking about is the song "Dreams to Dream from FIevel Goes West, that's all.

 

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29 minutes ago, timbox129 said:

 

Actually all I am talking about is the song "Dreams to Dream from FIevel Goes West, that's all.

 

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I just call it "Dreams", because I talk about it so much.

 

 

29 minutes ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

Are we next going to discuss the crappy twinkly pop cover by Linda Ronstadt? 

 

Do you want to discuss that?

 

 

Also... 900 posts!!!!! Let's celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rock::rock::rock:

 

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  • 2 years later...

I absolutely looooove 'Dreams to Dream'. It made me cry when I was about six years old. I used to press my ear against the TV speaker when I played it on the VHS, and bawl my eyes out. My mother would've thought I was weird, but I did it a few years before with 'Somewhere Out There', too.

 

I've recently performed this song as a cover, I'll add the link below for anyone who wants to listen. It's a full-blown ballad version mixing the movie version with the Ronstadt version, with rousing strings and a homage to Horner's fantastic score with the end chords.

 

Let me know what you think!

 

'Dreams to Dream' Cover - Tommy Lellan

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