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The CLJ Academy's Junior Show Class Students dancing to "Pure Imagination", sung by Aaron Jordon live on stage at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.

"Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie and does not appear in the original book by Roald Dahl or the 2005 film adaptation by Tim Burton. It was sung by Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka).

Trivia :-

Lou Rawls recorded a version of Pure Imagination for his 1976 album, All Things In Time.

Avant-garde guitarist Buckethead has covered the song several times, including versions on his debut album Bucketheadland in 1992, his second album Giant Robot in 1994, as well as several times playing it live.

In 2004, the rock band Maroon 5 composed a cover version of "Pure Imagination" that was released on the compilation album Mary Had a Little Amp. Another version by the band appeared on the 2009 compilation album, Change Is Now: Renewing America's Promise.

A previous cover, by punk band Smoking Popes appeared on their 1997 album Destination Failure.

Singer Mariah Carey also sampled the song for the 1999 remix of her hit single "I Still Believe", releasing it as the "I Still Believe/Pure Imagination Damizza Remix".

Sammy Davis Jr., who famously covered the song The Candy Man from the film, also covered this song.

Johnny Mathis often sings a beautiful rendition of this song in his live stage performances.

In The Muppet Show Season One, Ben Vereen sings the song to a Muppet atop a rooftop, accompanied by flying creatures.

Jazz singer Mark Murphy frequently performs this song live.

Kenny Loggins includes the song in a medley along with the songs Somewhere Out There and Never Never Land on his 1994 album Return To Pooh Corner.

In 2005, MasterCard commissioned an upbeat, alternative-style version of the song for its television commercial "Candy Store." Although it was only 30 seconds long, this commercial jingle version has attracted a great deal of attention from listeners who tried to find out the musical group performing the jingle and purchase a copy of it, only to be told by MasterCard that "Unfortunately, there is no way to get a copy of this song."

In 2005, dance music artists FORD aka Lawrence Fordyce and Jori remixed "Pure Imagination", releasing two versions: a "Wonka Trance" version and an "Oompa Loompa Breakbeat" version, with each version released in edit and club mix lengths. As of October 2005, the trance version is a highly requested song on XM Satellite Radio's dance hits channel BPM.[citation needed]

Irish rock band The Frames also frequently samples a part of the song during live performances of their song "Star Star", as heard in their 2002 live album Set List. They also use the line "That compare to pure imagination" to the same rhythm as the original song in their song, "Dance the Devil Back Into His Hole" on their album Dance the Devil.

Electro mixer Stylophonic mix a version on his album Baby Beat Show using a sample of the Lou Rawls vocals.

Jazz Pianist Bob James also did a version of this song.

In the special Halloween episode of The Fairly Oddparents, when it is raining candy, an instrumental version of this song is played.

The Smoking Popes covered this song on the 1997 release Destination Failure.

Fatboy Slim sampled the song and used it for his introduction video/track for the Good Vibrations Festival's throughout Australia in 2009.

Charles Hamilton sampled the song and used it in his Dead Zone Mixtape, creating a song called "Pure Imagination" as well.

Pianist Bill Charlap covers the song on his album "All Through the Night"