Within the context of the film, the song is one that Princess Amelia (Anne Hathaway) had heard in childhood; she asks her grandmother to sing it as she heads to adulthood and marriage.
But she was eventually convinced by husband Blake Edwards and director Garry Marshall, on the condition that she would have the right to cut the number if it didn't fit.
Andrews then personally chose Larry Grossman to work on the film's music, and he constructed a song that was written in a single octave to avoid it being vocally demanding for the actress.
[3] Andrews begins the song in a talk-sing style, then transitions to singing with a limited vocal range and noticeably raspy tone.
[5] After, the site would later comment that the moment was significant in the context of Andrews's career: "Although she downplayed this return to singing, that is exactly what it was, demonstrating that she had made at least a partial recovery from her botched throat surgery.