You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!

The musical hinge of Disney’s 1953 Peter Pan — the moment the Darling children leave the nursery floor and the film takes flight, literally and emotionally. Cahn and Fain turned the mechanics of fantasy into a chant so simple and irresistible that generations of children have believed, at least for a moment, that thinking happy thoughts might actually work.

Performed by the Jud Conlon Chorus and the Mellomen, it remains one of the most purely joyful sixty seconds in the Disney catalog.