What's your favorite song from a Disney film?

Colors of the Wind - the version from the movie, that is

Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast because my niece and I used to watch it all the time when I'd babysit, and we would sing it together. Plus, it's got Angela Lansbury!

[quote]Colors of the Wind - the version from the movie, that is

Fuck you.

“Part of that World” from The Little Mermaid

Somewhere Out There (from An American Tail) is beautiful and makes me cry. I miss my beautiful mom, and this song always makes me think of her.

Adults who are into Disney is some Michael Jackson "have you seen my childhood" bullshit. Grow up.

One assumes your reading comprehension skills are quite lacking, R6.

Dear R5, Here’s one for you!

You can't be in a bad mood while listening to Be Our Guest. Impossible.

Bolton is a guilty pleasure for me. He has sung a lot of sappy songs. But his voice is great and sometimes her knocks it home (when the song is not too sappy or bombastic.) Given all the duets Streisand has done over the years, I'm surprised she never did one with him. He is one of the few with a popular voice big enough to match hers. She usually modulates to the person she is singing with. She could let it fly with him. Of course they would have to pick the right song!

One Jump Ahead

A Whole New World - Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle

Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson - Beauty And The Beast

Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon A Star

Why is this Peabo in everythang?

The only good one is the one from Billy Joel for the kitten movie.

R5 An American Tail isn't a Disney film.

R6 can get over herself.

I'm fond of the villain songs.

Most people have never heard of this one but it's fun and it is sung by Bette Midler.

R19 that’s the role Bette was born to play an actual bitch

He's a Tramp by, of course, Peggy Lee, from Lady and the Tramp

Must admit that I wanted to suggest the same as r5, but then half-way through writing my comment I remembered it's not a Disney movie. But it's indeed a really beautiful song.

"God Help the Outcasts" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Thinking about the lyric puts tears in my eyes: "God help the outcasts/Hungry from birth/Show them the mercy/They don't find on earth"

I know, Mary!

Under The Sea from Little Mermaid is the one I think of immediately.

I always like the Cruella De Vil song, such high camp. Caine Cruchies the dogfood song was great fun too - they can’t be beat!

Treasure Planet - I'm Still Here .

Home on the Range - KD Lang -Little Patch of Heaven

R24 that lyrics from that song that always truck me were:

The poor and unlucky The weak and the odd I thought we all were The children of God?

[R24] that lyrics from that song that always truck me were:

The poor and unlucky

The weak and the odd

I thought we all were

The children of God?

I'm going to go in for the villain songs as well. Particularly "Poor Unfortunate Souls" and "Be Prepared."

I hated it at the time but the James Ingram Linda Ronstadt duet is really beautiful - and it's a Don Bluth animation not Disney- I remember when the song came out some aspiring witch tried to tell me that Ronstadt didn't cross registers well. that means going from chest voice to head voice.

Let’s Sing a Gay Little Spring Song! From Bambi.

Will someone please post it from YouTube? Thank you

This is my favorite from Hunchback and favorite from Disney.

The second best Disney song executives actually got CUT before the film was completed. Big mistake.

(Too bad about the asshole who sings it.)

From a movie that is 100 times better than it had any right to be.

This convinced me that Tituss Burgess should be Ursula when they finally make the live-action Little Mermaid.

"Você Já Foi à Bahia?" and "Os quindins de Yayá " from THE THREE CABALLEROS (1945)

Disney animation has never been this great since.

R33

I like a lot of them, but this one kinda got to me after downing a few g&ts at my local saloon's show tunes night.

[quote]I like a lot of them, but this one kinda got to me after downing a few g&ts at my local saloon's show tunes night.

Where's my goddamn Oscar...

Anything with Angela L.

I'm going to be honest.

I really like "Let It Go."

I'll be surrendering my gay card presently.

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

Not just the song, but this is my favorite Disney sequence. The lush orchestra and animation.

"Somewhere Out There" lost the Oscar to "Take My Breath Away."

Op

Completely forgot about that Bolton song but you’re right it’s terrific. Thank you for posting

Sing Sweet Nightengale

I was surprised that no one used "Go the Distance" as a theme song during the 1998 Winter Olympics. It was only half a year later and the song was nominated for an Oscar and was a hit.

R49 this song is made for the Olympics

Are there any rock songs ?

[quote]"Somewhere Out There" lost the Oscar to "Take My Breath Away."

What movie is that from?

"Take My Breath Away" is from TOP GUN.

Someday My Prince Will Come from Snow White

No " Baby Mine" or " On the Front Porch" or " Feed the Birds" or " So This Is Love". " I Got No Strings" is a masterpiece.

"I Just Can't Wait to be King" - The Lion King

Dig a Little Deeper - The Princess and the Frog.

I had a free day while working in Hong Kong, so I went to HK Disneyland. Everyone said to see the one live action show. The American lady that sang the songs from The Princess and thr Frog was excellent.

It was also the best overall Disney theme park show I've seen.

I assume we're limiting this to actual Disney stuff, as opposed to their output under the Touchstone or Hollywood labels.

I think Part of Your World tops my Disney list. My favorite cut song that was reinstated for the stage version but not the live action remake is Proud of Your Boy from Aladdin.

I know Hunchback got little love at the theatres for its dark subject matter, but Hellfire and God Help the Outcasts are great songs. Did anyone watch the stage adaptations ?

"Feed the Birds" from "Mary Poppins".

R1, me too.

Timon and Pumbaa's hula dance number from "The Lion King"

R1 that version is sung by a white woman sjw’s would have a major fit if they cast a white woman to voice a brown one nowadays.

But it would be okay for a black woman to sing it?

Someday from Hunchback of Notre Dame is very emotional.

Someday, multilanguage

Seriously, almost all of them are great. The more interesting question is which song didn't you like and why?

I like that song about a scrumptious day from “Mickey and The Beanstalk” Love her voice too. Who is that?

For God Help the Outcasts, I prefer the French Canadian pop version on the soundtrack album.

The Disney song with the most unbearable pathos, When She Loved Me.

He has a beautiful voice.

What a great thread. I was going to post the Angela Lansbury clip and it's been posted! My favorite.

[quote] "Somewhere Out There" lost the Oscar to "Take My Breath Away."

[quote] What movie is that from?

Somewhere Out There: An American Tale

Take My Breath Away (Berlin): Top Gun

Beauty and The Beast - Celine Dion James Ingram.

I hum this tune every night before bed.

Somewhere Out There reminds me of my first flame. A timeless classic.

They all suck!

[quote]Beauty and The Beast - Celine Dion James Ingram.

I thought she did that duet with Peabo Bryson?

[quote]Take My Breath Away (Berlin): Top Gun

Tip Gun was an American movie.

“When You Wish Upon a Star” is Disneys “Over the Rainbow”

Dirty Little Mermaid ended up on the cutting room floor.

R78 Berlin is the name of the band that performed "Take My Breath Away." Incidentally, they're an American band from SoCal.

[quote] Take My Breath Away (Berlin): Top Gun

[quote] Tip Gun was an American movie.

Sorry, if I don't get the joke but Berlin is the group that performed the song. Should have written "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin. Since this is a thread about Disney songs I won't link to any of the clips of the song.

Candle On The Water from "Pete's Dragon"

From Tarzan: You'll Be In My Heart sung by Phil Collins

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Peggy Lee

I like the jazzy version of the commercial jingle for “Canine Crunchies” from 101 Dalmatians. It’s on the soundtrack but not in the movie...

I saw Little Shop of Horrors for the first time a few years ago, and ended up becoming fascinated by Howard Ashman. I went back and listened to the songs from The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast and Aladdin that I had loved so much as a kid. Listening to them as an adult, I realised how clever the lyrics are.

"Under the Sea" has some of the cleverest lyrics.

"I wanna be like you?, Louis Prima and Phil Harris

There’s Room For Everyone - Pete’s Dragon

Another fave from the 101 Dalamations soundtrack.

When You Wish Upon a Star

Growing up I had an unhealthy obsession with Aladdin (probably because I thought he was hot, the movie was great too though-to be fair).

Used to listen to "Friend Like Me" RELIGIOUSLY. I would even get a sheet of paper and tear it in half synched up to when Genie would sing "and LET IT RIP!" while he rips up a contract.

Hahah, that's adorable, R93!

When I was little I used to stack up a bunch of thick books and perch on top of them while listening to "Be Prepared".

When i was a kid I would take ice cubes from the freezer and sing “Let It Go, Let It Go” while tossing them.

R94 Soo cute. "Be Prepared"- can't believe I forgot about that song. Probably tied with "Poor Unfortunate Soul" for best Disney villain song.

I like Go the Distance too, but my favorite version is Shawn Hook's.

2nd favorite Go the Distance is Joshua Colley.

Roger Bart's version is definitive. Nothing like Alan Menken's orchestrations.

I tend to prefer the movie versions of the songs, too, than the covers.

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

[italic]No matter how your heart is grieving

If you keep on believing

The dream that you wish will come true.[/italic]

I have several favorites. "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid. "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast. "The Bells of Notre Dame" from Hunchback. "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan.

"The Bells of Notre Dame" is exceptional. Honestly, that entire soundtrack and score is wonderful. Probably Alan Menken's best..... definitely his best score at least.

A Whole New World - Aladdin

Hayley, of course.

"Prince Ali" is my favorite from Aladdin. It sucks that it's not available on Spotify or Amazon Music or any of the streaming services.

Prince Ali

I meant the Robin Williams version.

I love the reprise.

R109 LOL! Gotta love that slap.

That slap was high camp!

Vicious face slap, so gratuitous, yet so satisfying.

I heard the ALADDIN remake doesn't include that Jafar reprise. That sucks. It's one of the best sequences in the animated film.

Gross. Zero self-awareness.

Love this.

This always cheers me up.

R114 what's gross about it?

Good from 1:16.

That Mormon version of "Go the Distance" sounds so sterile. I can't stand a capella versions of songs... I don't know why. Clearly it takes skill and talent, but they almost always sound cheesy and smug to me. I can fuck with barbershop quartets though... I find those charming.

R119 Nah, that whole song is good. The duet between Frollo and Quasimodo is essential.

Couldn't find the Disney Gays thread but wanted to share this. From 7:23. Fucking hot. Ignore the chubby chicks.

Michael Bolton would have appealed to me without that awful mullet hair.

R117, the self-aggrandizing "smugness" as R120 says. Plus the absurd name of the chorus.

I always found this kind of gay and catchy. Rhyming "that" with "that" right at the beginning was weak, though.

Christina’s Reflection is powerful, back when she didn’t add a couple dozen extra notes to every bar.

Love the reference to his pecs.

Totally jerked off to him as a kid.

I love Zachary Levi’s voice in Tangled

I used to beat off to Flynn...

r122, what do you think of Patrick’s cover of Go the Distance?

Sorry - Eugene.

R131, I was just watching that. It's lovely, but I prefer just the audio. I like his slight speech impediment. Not sure what it is, but it makes him sound adorably boyish.

There's something very DL about this scene...

"Blame it on the Samba" with Ethel Smith and the Dinning Sisters from MELODY TIME (1948).

Sorry about the blurry video - it's Disney animation at its craziest and 1940s Technicolor at its richest. And Mary Blair design!

"Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from Lilo & Stitch

I've always like "Belle" from "BATB". And "Gaston" is fun, too.

R137 that clip has the awful Emma Watson vocals!

"Zero to Hero" from Hercules.

It's just lyrics added to Tchaikovsky, but even so, my favorite of all is "Once Upon a Dream" from SLEEPING BEAUTY.

This is the most beautiful song the Sherman Brothers ever wrote (which is really saying something).

This my dark horse. I find it really sad.

When I was a child, my family had a lot of movie musical soundtracks and OBC recordings. One was The Happiest Millionaire. I had all the songs memorized ready to perform, like There Are Those, Fortuosity, What's Wrong with That, I'll Always Be Irish, Let's Have a Drink on It and Watch Your Footwork.

R30, those aren't the lyrics. The lyrics at the end are:

I ask for nothing, I can get by.

But I know so many less lucky than I.

Please help my people, the poor and downtrod.

I thought we all were the children of God.

God help the outcast children of God.

From that same movie, I don't know if I would call these my favorites but I love the juxtaposition of songs later in that movie, where Quasimodo sings plaintively about how he would never know the glow of "Heaven's Light," then a verse of the priests/monks in the church singing, seguing seamlessly into Frollo's "Hellfire."

Another that I'm not sure I'd call my favorite but is both memorable and notable for how it begins the movie and sets everything up for what follows is "The Circle of Life" from "The Lion King."

R144 I was quoting was the Bette Midler rendition, which can be heard on the soundtrack.

R141- where you when I was a 12 year old boy singing that song as I did my chores? R142 I agreed. R143 I liked your choice. It's an interesting film and a good little song.

The high not hit in "When You Wish Upon a Star" has made me tear up since I was a kid. Gorgeous.

The opening to "Go the Distance" too. The whole song is pretty great. What beat it for Best Song that year?

Love seeing "Hunchback" getting some love here. Watched it again recently and it holds up great. Almost like that it is so underrated. Feels like "ours" (when it was too dark and disturbing for most at the time).

(That's "high NOTE", above. Man, my keyboard...)

[quote]The opening to "Go the Distance" too. The whole song is pretty great. What beat it for Best Song that year?

"My Heart Will Go On"

[quote]He's a Tramp by, of course, Peggy Lee, from Lady and the Tramp

Also, from Lady and the Tramp, the (slightly racist) Siamese Cat Song.

By yump pum pum

Guess you heard they are taking the Siamese song out of future releases of the movie. Which I kind of hate. It's a breed of CATS, for Chrissakes.

It's not the word that's the problem, it's the racist-ass accent they sing in.

I wonder if they'll take "Song of the Roustabouts" out of Dumbo. I'm sorry, but a song sung by faceless black men about being happy to "slave away" which also contains the line "Grab that rope, you hairy ape" has no business being in a children's movie.

DUMBO also has Jim Crow and his song "Did You Ever See An Elephant Fly"?

The Aristocats revisited that Siamese caricature in "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat".

[quote]Guess you heard they are taking the Siamese song out of future releases of the movie.

That reminds me of when they digitally erased Pecos Bill's cigarette from MELODY TIME when it was released on home video in the late '90s, including an entire sequence where he lights up his cigarette with a lighting bolt. I remember the critic at the time (I think it was EW) making a flippant remark about it.

Have they cut this bit from SNOW WHITE yet?

Wow, Disney sure was racist against Asians. Movie after movie after movie. What was Disney’s problem?!

I don't think it was considered racist then. Just like patting a woman's behind wasn't seen as sexual harassment.

I'm fond of Jiminy Cricket singing Give A Little Whistle to Pinocchio, but for the wrong reason. Except for "always let your conscience be your guide," the lyrics could be interpreted as "hey, if you're feeling immoral, hit me up."

Jeremy Jordan should be a Disney prince. His Disney medley covers all my favorites and he performs them better than the originals, including the songs originally sung by women..

He's basically a Disney prince with Newsies, no?

I don't know, it's still weird. We can make fun of French people and their accents in every movie and nobody cares (why should they?). Southern people. Jersey. Boston. On and on. But two CATS singing in a rather heightened accent is bad enough to destroy a classic film with butchery? Annoying shit.

It's too hard to limit it to one. Judy Kuhn just killing it on "Colors of the Wind;" "Part of Your World;" "Candle on the Water;" and "Feed the Birds" are all fantastic.

Judy Kuhn performing "Colors of the Wind" live at the POCAHONTAS premiere in Central Park.

No one's mentioned their second Best Song Oscar winner?

R163 it's because SJWs now control Hollywood. Anything that makes fun of white people is fine, but people of color are off limits.

Thanks, R165. She has such a beautiful, instantly recognizable, distinctive voice.

No mention of Donna Murphy's "Mother Knows Best" and its reprise from "Tangled"? It's a fun song which will get stuck in your head, not a bad thing at all. Murphy just nails it. I actually prefer it over the other villain songs.

The Siamese Cat song doesn't even make fun of Siamese people. It doesn't even make fun of Siamese cats.

Anyway, Julie Andrews' "Feed The Birds" chokes me up every time.

I’m partial to this charming song!

I’m partial to this charming song!

I’m partial to this charming song!

[quote]Anyway, Julie Andrews' "Feed The Birds" chokes me up every time.

I still can't believe that wasn't the film's Oscar-nominated song. It was even Walt's favorite. Instead, "Chim Chim Cher-ee" got the nod and the win.

I’m partial to this charming song!

Someone check on R171/172/173/175. I think she's having a stroke.

Celine and Peabo sang this damn song, but Jessica Sanchez and Matt Boyd did a beautiful version too. Legend and Ariana, not so much.

LOL, R176 —that’s me posted the song so many times! It was never showing up as posted, so I kept reposting! Cannot figure out how or why this happened, only thing I can think of if maybe I blocked myself?! Anyhow, sorry to be pest, folks, and thanks again for the huge laugh, R176!

Can't believe I've never seen Hunchback, the songs posted here are wonderful.

r18, that is a fantastic villain song.

r119, whilst I agree the song is great, I immediately thought of 'Part of your World' from The Little Mermaid. Obviously the themes of the songs are the same but that middle section sounds very similar.

R179 you should definitely watch HUNCHBACK. Highly underrated! Gorgeous animation, too!

Hunchback is definitely worth seeing. A couple of knockout numbers, and I love that shot that starts as a Quasimodo close-up and then just flies back for the wide shot.

Hunchback is essential Disney. It's underrated, but I've noticed people are starting to realize how great it is. Here's "Sanctuary" by Alan Menken. Not a song, but a part of the score, and probably one of the finest pieces the man has ever written. I love his scores, but this is the only score that allowed him to get dark and lush. The rest of his scores have a lighter feel, but there's so much substance to this one.

The soundtrack of Hunchback is great, but the ending isn’t. It reinforces that the natural order is for the good looking guy to get the girl and the ugly guy gets, at best, pity.

R183 it's the truth!

Phoebus isn't even handsome.

R185 but he was the first Disney leading man with facial hair!

Check out this cute nerd. He likes "I'll Make A Man Out of You" and "Zero to Hero". Hercules is his favorite Disney movie.

Nice one R182.

I can't believe DL isn't showing love for the sassy, black muses from 'Hercules'. Here's Disney's most fabulous introduction ever: 'The Gospel Truth'

'The Gospel Truth II' ... should've been longer.

The Gospel Truth III

Love the Gospel Truths. The narrator's, "You go girls," is wonderful. You'll see though that the Hercules soundtrack has been getting tons of love. "Zero to Hero" has been posted a couple times, and someone shouted out "I Won't Say I'm In Love" as well.

I love "Friends on the Other Side". Keith David's voice is exceptional.

R178 Never seen the movie, by parents had this single in their collection.

Louis covered everything in the late 60s.

R192, the narrator was none other than Moses himself, Charlton Heston.

"On Mount Olympus life was neat. And smooth as sweet vermouth. Although, honey, it may seem imposs'ble. That's the gospel truth!"