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  • Candle on the Water
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  • "Candle on the Water" is an Academy Award-nominated song from the 1977 Walt Disney Pictures film, Pete's Dragon. It was originally sung by Helen Reddy. Olive Snook and an unidentified a cappella group sing it in "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy", as a promotion for a resort and day spa for the Papen County Lighthouse. The rendition ends suddenly when Emerson Cod, from the safe side of his gun, informs them to "shut the a cappella up."
  • "Candle on the Water" is the signature song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn from Walt Disney Pictures live-action/animated film Pete's Dragon. It is sung by Nora (Helen Reddy) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1977, though it lost to "You Light Up My Life". The song was sung on the DisneyMania 4 album by Anneliese van der Pol. It was also sung briefly by Kristin Chenoweth and an unidentified a cappella group in the dramedy Pushing Daisies in the episode "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy".
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Singer
  • Nora
Date
  • 1977
Name
  • Candle on the Water
Preceded By
Video
  • Pete's Dragon - Candle on the Water
Films
Source
  • Pete's Dragon
Composer
  • Al Kasha
  • Joel Hirschhorn
Writer
  • Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
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  • "Candle on the Water" is an Academy Award-nominated song from the 1977 Walt Disney Pictures film, Pete's Dragon. It was originally sung by Helen Reddy. Olive Snook and an unidentified a cappella group sing it in "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy", as a promotion for a resort and day spa for the Papen County Lighthouse. The rendition ends suddenly when Emerson Cod, from the safe side of his gun, informs them to "shut the a cappella up."
  • "Candle on the Water" is the signature song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn from Walt Disney Pictures live-action/animated film Pete's Dragon. It is sung by Nora (Helen Reddy) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1977, though it lost to "You Light Up My Life". The setting for the song is entirely on the balcony of the lighthouse in which Nora and her father, Lampie, live. She sings it to her lover, Paul, who has been lost at sea for over a year but she believes he will return one day. One night Lampie mocks her about this and she retires to the balcony to sing toward the ocean, assuring Paul that she is still waiting for him. The song was sung on the DisneyMania 4 album by Anneliese van der Pol. It was also sung briefly by Kristin Chenoweth and an unidentified a cappella group in the dramedy Pushing Daisies in the episode "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy". According to Helen Reddy, she was told by Kasha and Hirschhorn that "they deliberately placed religious and spiritual symbols within the song." The soundtrack for the 2016 Remake features a newly-recorded version of the song, performed by Okkervil River.
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