Animation Film Soundtrack / Children's Choral Ballad
Written for the 1986 animated feature 'An American Tail' by James Horner with lyricists Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. In the film, the separated mouse siblings Fievel and Tanya gaze at the same moon from afar and, in plain two-part harmony, wish to be reunited.
Under producer Peter Asher, the song was rebuilt as an end-credit duet for Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram. Scored for full orchestra and synthesizers, it became a sweeping adult-contemporary ballad, reached No. 2 on the Hot 100, and won the 30th Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture.
A child’s simple wish-song from an animated film was expanded into a full-orchestra adult duet ballad and became an enduring standard.