Jacqueline Ruth "Ilene" Woods (May 5, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was an American actress and singer. Woods was the original voice of the title character of the Walt Disney animated feature Cinderella, for which she was named a Disney Legend in 2003.
This was the only studio recording that she made apart from her "Disney" work "Cinderella" & "Snow White".......her voice has that gentle quality to it wouldn't say it was in the Jazz type but it's blended to the well known standard songs that most of the lady singers of the jazz style did....Its sad that she did not record any more and even sadder about her later life...For something realy good and pleasant this is a must to listen to !!!
In 1948, two of her songwriter friends, Mack David and Jerry Livingston, called Woods to record "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", and "So This is Love". Soon, the songs were presented to Walt Disney so that they could be used in the English version of Cinderella. Walt Disney heard the demo recordings, and two days later asked Ilene to voice the star role of Cinderella. She gladly accepted She said in an interview for Classicfilm, "Seeing it [the film] in its new form was breathtaking for me. It's so beautiful. The color is magnificent, it just took my breath away, it was so wonderful. I sort of forget when I'm watching the movie that I had anything to do with it.
Suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home at Canoga Park, Woods didn't remember that she voiced Cinderella but was mostly comforted by the film's song "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and the nurses played it for her as often as possible, realizing she liked it. She died on July 1 2010.
1. Its A Blue World
2. Everytime
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. If I Love Again
5. What A Difference A Day Makes
6. Estrelita
1. While We're Young
2. If You Were Mine
3. I'm Old Fashioned
4. You're Blase
5. I Remember You
6. It's Late
3. When Your Lover Has Gone.
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