Swinging on a Star

Music by	Jimmy van Heusen
Lyrics by	Johnny Burke
Date	1944
Source	Going My Way (movie)
Publisher	Bourne Co.; Music Sales Corp.

The classic tune "Swinging on a Star" was originally sung by Bing Crosby in Going My Way and won an Academy Award for Best Song in 1944. It has since been recorded by many other artists as well. Tony Bennett included a version of it in his 1998 album "The Playground".

Sesame Street

• On Sesame Street, the song was first sung by Susan and some Anything Muppets in Season 1 (First: Episode 0010). Susan dressed three Muppets as the animals mentioned in the song while she sang.

Muppets

• Rowlf and Jimmy Dean sang a duet of "Swinging on a Star" in the November 21, 1963 broadcast of The Jimmy Dean Show. The sketch appeared on the 2007 DVD release, The Best of the Jimmy Dean Show.

• Rowlf later sang the song as a duet with Nipsey Russell in the July 30, 1967 edition of Our Place.

• Julie Andrews sang a re-written version of the song in her 1975 TV special Julie Andrews: My Favorite Things. She is joined by the Gawky Birds and the Clodhoppers (who are called "The Klunks" on this show).

• One of the intro screens for "Scope That Song" in The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside lists "Swinging on a Starfish" as a hit song for Lew Zealand and his Singing Fish.