Link to this morning's matchup:
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Part of Your World - Written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for The Little Mermaid (1989). Performed by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in the titular role as Ariel, a mermaid princess. Written in 1986, "Part of Your World" was the first song lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote for The Little Mermaid, although Menken had not yet been enlisted as Ashman's composer when the song was first conceived.

Ashman first met actress and singer Jodi Benson while he was directing her in Smile; she had also performed "Disneyland" in the musical. After the production closed prematurely, Ashman invited Smile's entire female cast to audition for The Little Mermaid using "Part of Your World", although he did not tell them the name of the project they were auditioning for. Ashman mailed a copy of his demo of "Part of Your World" to Benson, to which she listened in a public restroom in preparation for her audition. Benson then recorded a brief sample of the song on a reel-to-reel tape with casting director Albert Tavares, which she mailed to Disney. All audition tapes were left unidentified so that the candidates would remain anonymous to Musker and Clements, delighting Ashman when the directors ultimately selected Benson's tape to be the voice of Ariel, about which she was informed one year after submitting the tape.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1Y6Vxl6Nk&feature=shared

When You Wish Upon a Star - Written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio, based on the children's fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi. The original version was sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket, and is heard over the opening credits and in the final scene of the film.

The soundtrack won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, and the song "When You Wish Upon A Star" won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song and has become Disney's official anthem. According to Walt Disney Records, "this is the first time the phrase 'original soundtrack' was used to refer to a commercially available movie recording."

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wEWowjC2dSk&feature=shared