I'll Be Seeing You (1944) - Ilene Woods

[@IntelSeeker]

This incredible young woman is only 15 years old singing this! She was blessed with such an extraordinary voice. What maturity in her beautiful sound and her interpretation is amazing. To think four years after this she started working on Disney's Cinderella at 19 years old. What a huge talent at such a young age.

[@jayseo1686]

Was the Cinderella song recorded years before the movie was released?

[@rosa3299]

@@jayseo1686 Animation takes long to due even if it is just a 5min animation video. And the fact technology gets better over time animation might have took longer to do back then.

[@domenicofellini159]

This is not a Cinderella song, Jay. Is that what you meant? 'Cinderella' was a rush project as Disney needed a quick, sure-fire hit to save the studio at the end of an awful decade. New York songwriters, Jerry Livingstone and Mack David sent a sample recording to Disney in California. They used Ilene Woods' voice on the sampler: it was never the intention that she audition for the role. Walt Disney heard the disc and cast her from it. The stuff of fairy tales. So, she would have recorded her songs for Cinderella sometime in 1948/49, at least four years after this recording.

[@71crm]

Beautiful! Ilene Woods had this almost Judy Garland-like quality to her voice which made for a perfect Disney Princess!

[@ggt47]

71crm yes...

[@itaylederer]

She is my third favorite actress of all time, after Judy Garland at the 1st place and Marilyn Monroe at the 2nd place

[@domenicofellini159]

Judy? No. But a perfect Cinderella in '49

[@Hevynly1]

She had such an extraordinarily beautiful voice. She's my favorite Disney princess, by far! Great upload. Thank you! :)

[@ggt47]

Hevynly1 her and Aurora and anow white.

[@claf5935]

I think I know who your favorite Disney princess is, Cinderella

[@MiaEzrahmay]

When I heard this song I feel like I'm in the other place I don't know why but it looks like i exist before 😔 how I love her voice

[@jim7919]

I love her voice the most

[@RareMusicalGems]

Just gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!

[@pls5161]

I’m pretty young as I listen to this, and I’m already deciding to write down any artist from this sort of era of music I see. :>

[@paulas2858]

I just love her version

[@itsamina2152]

Wow.

[@Durtretre]

Are there lyrics?? (Or somewhere with lyrics of this)

[@domenicofellini159]

Cathedral bells were tolling And our hearts sang on. Was it the spell of Paris Or the April dawn.? Who knows if we shall meet again? But when the morning chimes ring sweet again, We'll greet again... I''ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day through. In that small cafe, the park across the way The children's carousel, the chestnut trees The wishing well. I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day, In everything that light and gay, I'll always think of you that way I'll find you in the morning sun And when the night is new, I''ll be looking at the moon But I'll be seeing you.

[@MooncoreWitch]

So this is what Cinderella is doing after marrying the prince!

[@evelyncorrea680]

Young Britney Spears kinda look like her.

[@fohponomalama5065]

Thankfully that’s the only thing similar about Woods and Spears.