The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice
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The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice is a four-disc box set highlighting the creative evolution behind the music of Disney's The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast , and Aladdin . Released on November 22 , 1994 on Walt Disney Records , the set includes work tape recordings, demos, previously released final recordings, and unreleased master recordings of songs and score cues.
Track listing [ ]
All music composed by Alan Menken .
Disc 1: The Little Mermaid [ ]
#
Title
Lyrics by
Performed by
Length
1
Fathoms Below , Main Titles (demo)
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken
4:39
2
Fathoms Below (final)
Ashman
Chorus
1:41
3
Main Titles (final)
(score)
1:26
4
Fanfare (final)
(score)
0:26
5
Daughters of Triton (final)
Ashman
Chorus
0:37
6
Part of Your World (work tape)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
0:46
7
Part of Your World (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
0:47
8
Part of Your World (final)
Ashman
Jodi Benson
3:12
9
Fireworks (final)
(score)
0:38
10
Jig (final)
(score)
1:32
11
Under the Sea (work tape)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
1:20
12
Under the Sea (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:32
13
Under the Sea (final)
Ashman
Samuel E. Wright
3:12
14
Sebastian and Triton (final)
(score)
1:41
15
Part of Your World, Reprise (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
1:32
16
The Storm (final)
(score)
3:18
17
Part of Your World, Reprise (final)
Ashman
Benson
2:15
18
Silence is Golden (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:35
19
Poor Unfortunate Souls (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
5:06
20
Poor Unfortunate Souls (final)
Ashman
Pat Carroll
4:48
21
Les Poissons (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:07
22
Les Poissons (final)
Ashman
René Auberjonois
1:32
23
Tour of the Kingdom (final)
(score)
1:24
24
Kiss the Girl (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
1:05
25
Kiss the Girl (final)
Ashman
Wright
1:35
26
Bedtime (final)
(score)
1:20
27
Wedding Announcement (final)
(score)
2:16
28
Eric to the Rescue (final)
(score)
3:40
29
Part of Your World/Happy Ending (work tape/final)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken/(score)
2:34
Disc 2: Beauty and the Beast [ ]
#
Title
Lyrics by
Performed by
Length
1
Belle (demo/final)
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman, Alan Menken/Paige O'Hara, Richard White
4:52
2
Prologue (final/no dialogue)
(score)
2:31
3
Belle (Reprise) (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
0:58
4
Belle (Reprise) (final)
Ashman
O’Hara
1:04
5
Wolf Attack (unreleased master)
(score)
2:39
6
Gaston (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
3:39
7
Gaston (final)
Ashman
Jesse Corti & White
3:37
8
Gaston (Reprise) (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:28
9
Be Our Guest (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
3:27
10
Be Our Guest (final)
Ashman
Jerry Orbach & Angela Lansbury
3:42
11
West Wing (final)
(score)
2:19
12
Human Again (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
9:10
13
Something There (final)
Ashman
O’Hara, Robby Benson, Orbach, Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers
2:16
14
The Mob Song (final)
Ashman
White
3:27
15
Beauty and the Beast (work tape)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
1:43
16
Beauty and the Beast (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:13
17
Beauty and the Beast (final)
Ashman
Lansbury
2:44
18
The Beast Lets Belle Go (final)
(score)
2:20
19
Transformation #1 (final)
(score)
1:35
20
Transformation #2 (final)
(score)
5:46
21
Beauty and the Beast (single)
Ashman
Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson
4:02
Disc 3: Aladdin [ ]
#
Title
Lyrics by
Performed by
Length
1
Arabian Nights (demo/final)
Howard Ashman
Alan Menken/Bruce Adler
1:48
2
Legend of the Lamp (final/dialogue by Robin Williams)
(score)
1:24
3
On a Dark Night (final)
(score)
2:54
4
One Jump Ahead (final)
Tim Rice
Brad Kane
2:22
5
Street Urchins (final)
(score)
1:56
6
One Jump Ahead, Reprise (final)
Rice
Kane
1:00
7
Count On Me (demo)
Alan Menken
Menken
2:38
8
Call Me A Princess (demo)
Ashman
Howard Ashman & Menken
2:40
9
Jasmine Runs Away (final)
(score)
0:44
10
Marketplace (final)
(score)
2:36
11
Why Me? (unreleased master)
Rice
Jonathan Freeman
3:21
12
Friend Like Me (work tape)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
1:07
13
Friend Like Me (final)
Ashman
Robin Williams
2:27
14
To Be Free (final)
(score)
1:37
15
The Cave of Wonders (final)
(score)
4:56
16
Prince Ali (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
4:13
17
Prince Ali (final)
Ashman
Williams
2:51
18
A Whole New World (work tape)
Rice
Menken & Tim Rice
0:50
19
A Whole New World (final)
Rice
Kane & Lea Salonga
2:39
20
The Kiss (final)
(score)
1:50
21
Aladdin’s Word (final)
(score)
1:51
22
Humiliate the Boy (demo)
Ashman
Freeman & Menken
3:42
23
Jafar’s Hour (final)
(score)
2:39
24
Prince Ali, Reprise (final)
Rice
Freeman
1:12
25
The Ends of the Earth (final)
(score)
1:35
26
The Battle (final)
(score)
3:38
27
Happy End in Agrabah (final)
(score)
4:14
28
Arabian Nights, Reprise (unreleased master)
Ashman
Adler
0:44
29
A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme) (single)
Rice
Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
4:05
Disc 4: Aladdin (The Original Score) [ ]
#
Title
Lyrics by
Performed by
Length
1
Arabian Nights, Reprise #1 (demo)
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken
0:31
2
Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:45
3
Arabian Nights, Reprise #2 (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
0:32
4
Friend Like Me (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:35
5
Proud of Your Boy (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
2:27
6
How Quick They Forget (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
3:57
7
Arabian Nights, Reprise #3 (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
0:34
8
High Adventure (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
4:19
9
Arabian Nights, Reprise #4 (demo)
Ashman
Ashman & Menken
0:43
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