He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me

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Academy Award winning songwriter Robert B. Sherman with the Queen Mother at the 1976 Royal Command Performance of The Slipper and the Rose.
Academy Award winning songwriter Robert B. Sherman with the Queen Mother at the 1976 Royal Command Performance of The Slipper and the Rose.

"He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me" is the Academy Award nominated song from The Slipper and the Rose. It was written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and performed in the film by Richard Chamberlain and Gemma Craven. It is sung by Cinderella on her return home from the ball, and by the Prince wondering at the mysterious lady he has danced with. And instrumental version of the same song is played at Ball, and is the film's theme song The Slipper and the Rose Waltz.

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The film was chosen to be the Royal Command Performance film of 1976. At the reception following the film, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother commented to the songwriters that this song was "The most beautiful waltz she'd ever heard."