The same thing happened with "Beyond the Laughing Sky/Second Star to the Right". It was intended for Alice, but Kathryn Beaumont's vocal range was not high enough for it, so "In a World of My Own" was written instead. Luckily the first song was good enough to be later used in Peter Pan.
Technically, of course, you mean "the second component (SECOND STAR) of the first SUITE"..since those are two whole original songs together (the seventies oldies newsgroup, rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1970s has had threads about what one calls such a coupling of two original songs--Paul and Linda McCartney'as 1971 hit classic "UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY=)..anyway,I'm actually looking forward to this..to fianlly see what many of the original classics might have had..Stan Freberg is reputed to have done a rejected voice for the Jabberwock, who of course is conspicous by abense in the final flick (as are the following Lewis Carroll's characters:The Mock Turtle, The Gyrphon, Humpty Dumpty-a Mother Goose,not a Carroll creation, the Duchess, the other queens (and Kings), the White Knight,etc.etc.)(Of course Lewis Carroll wrote TWO Alice books: AIW and "ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS". Granted there ARE many characters in the book..San Fran pscych-rock group Jefferson AIrplane's classic about Carroll's world, "WHITE RABBIT", also doesn't have time to mention all the characters in its 2-1/2 minute time (the intro's 20 seconds long)..
Lewis Carroll was certainly taken up by the unlikely (to folks like Walt at least), parties, such as 1960s stoners (consider also The Beatles's "I AM THE WALRUS
". Pooppoopachoo!!)
I always loved Alice,esp.the beautiful Technicolor(tm) setting, the music and the voices. Much has been made of the use of celeb voices (something that regarding current cartoons I'm on the fence about) but in the days of Alice in didn't matter if the voice artist was a "celeb" or not, given their showing up on the then-superdominant oldtime radio (as it's called now),pre-TV shows..
A mixture of cxeleb and "standard" vocal artists contributed to "ALICE". Ed Wynn was the "Fire Cheif" back in the 1930s,before beign the mad hatter, Verna Felton the longrunning"Battleax" on Jack Benny, Pinto Colvig (who had a minor role as the suqeaky-voiced flamingoes,including the one that which ALice uses as her croquet mallet). Bill Thompson imported his White Rabbit/Dodo voices from radio's "FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY" (1935-1957), the rabbit thru MGM's famed Tex Avery toon "DROOPY
", and of course Jerry Colonna was Bob Hope's "Ah..Greeting Gate! Ah,yes!" sidekick, thuis justifiying their presence on Alice.PLUS, they were DANG FUNNY!
(Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Alice, had been in some movies and was excellent as Alice..)
The effects with the Cheshire Cat's first (offscreen) appearance, singing Bob Hilliard (?) and Sammy Fain's (?) Carrroll-based "'TWAS BRILLIG", with the Technicolor effects, a true Kodak moment. (Also the "Mome raths/Tulgey Woods" scene and the card march.0 The music is among the best--I'm also a sucker for whistling, whether it's solo (like around then "HIGH & MIGHJTY" by Leroy Holmes orch.w/Fred Lowry) or in a chorus-back when ALCIE came out in the 50s there were a LOT of "Hit Parade" tunes--"PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA" by Guy Mitchell w/Mitch MillerOrk, "THE POOR PEOPLE OF PARIS" by Les Baxter Ork and Chorus, and of course "COL.BOOGEY/BRIDGE OVER RIVER KWAI MARCHES" by Mitch Miller Orj and Chorus (which the GOOD original Hayley Mills 1961 "PARENT TRAP" nicely burlequesed)-with group whistling, either in whole or in part, on the Hit Parade. The Card's march tune, used in the Alice ride (I went to Disneyland today,BTW), employed wonderful use of whistlers.
Yes, ALICE is ALIVE in Wonderland.(I currently just have the video, don't have the DVD yet)
).