The Little Mermaid (soundtrack)

Infobox Album
Name = The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Various Artists


Released = December 13, 1989
October 3, 2006 (SE)
Recorded =
Genre = Broadway Musical Style Soundtrack
Length =
Label = Walt Disney Records
Producer = Alan Menken
Howard Ashman
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9fwxqqjldfe link]
*SCOREREVIEWS Rating|4|5 [http://www.scorereviews.com/reviews/review.aspx?id=101 link]
*Film Tracks Rating|4|5 [http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/little_mermaid.html link]
Chronology = Disney film soundtracks
Last album = "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
(1989)
This album = "The Little Mermaid"
(1989)
Next album = "The Rescuers Down Under"
(1990)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = 2006 Special Edition
Type =


Lower caption =

"The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack" is the soundtrack to Disney's 1989 animated feature "The Little Mermaid". It contains the songs from the film written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as the film's score composed by Alan Menken. The album received the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

In October 2006, a new two-disc special edition version of the soundtrack was released to correspond with the two-disc Platinum Edition DVD release of "The Little Mermaid". The first disc remains identical to the original release, yet with remastered audio, while the newly added second disc is composed of various newly recorded version of the film's songs by different artists, such as Ashley Tisdale, Raven-Symoné, The Jonas Brothers, and Jessica Simpson. It also includeds two videos, as well as new cover art.

Track listing

#Fathoms Below - Chorus
#Main Titles (Score)
#Fanfare (Score)
#Daughters of Triton - Kimmy Robertson, Caroline Vasicek, Matthew Balaban
#Part of Your World - Jodi Benson
#Under the Sea - Samuel E. Wright and Chorus
#Part of Your World (Reprise) - Jodi Benson
#Poor Unfortunate Souls - Pat Carroll
#Les Poissons - René Auberjonois
#Kiss the Girl - Samuel E. Wright
#Fireworks (Score)
#Jig (Score)
#The Storm (Score)
#Destruction of the Grotto (Score)
#Flotsam and Jetsam (Score)
#Tour of the Kingdom (Score)
#Bedtime (Score)
#Wedding Announcement (Score)
#Eric to the Rescue (Score)
#Happy Ending - Chorus

Disc two (special edition)

# "Kiss the Girl" - Ashley Tisdale
# "Poor Unfortunate Souls" - Jonas Brothers
# "Part of Your World" - Jessica Simpson
# "Under the Sea" - Raven-Symoné
* Music Video: "Poor Unfortunate Souls" - performed by Jonas Brothers
* Music Video: "Kiss the Girl" - performed by Ashley Tisdale

Unreleased Songs/Score

Several pieces of music from the movie remain unreleased in any format from Disney. The most important and most puzzling is a short reprise of Ursula's song Poor Unfortunate Souls which appears in the movie right before Eric and Vanessa's wedding. This song has been unofficially named "Vanessa's Song" but has never been recognized or named by Disney. The piece is sung by Vanessa (Jodi Benson). It has a short prelude of Scuttle humming (Buddy Hackett) and the ending laugh is by Ursula (Pat Carrol)

# Main Titles (NOTE: Full version, heard over end credits)
# Sebastian’s Fanfare
# Tuning
# Ariel!/Shipwreck
# Scuttle
# You Went Up to the Surface Again/Sebastian In Charge/Ariel’s Cavern
# "Part of Your World" (Full Version)
# It’s Too Easy/Ariel’s In Love
# What to Do/He Loves Me
# Somebody’s Gotta Nail That Girl’s Fins to the Floor
# Sebastian and Triton (Included on the "Music Behind the Magic" CD set, but not on the commercial release)
# Poor Sweet Child
# Going to See the Sea Witch
# She’s a Human
# I’ll Try to Help
# Eric and Max Find Ariel/At the Castle/The Kitchen
# Getting Ready For Dinner
# "Les Poissons" (Full Version)
# Sebastian Escapes
# What Have I Done?
# Ursula Takes Matters Into Her Own Tentacles
# Vanessa On the Beach
# "Vanessa’s Song"
# Making a Plan/Crash the Wedding/Ariel’s Voice/The Sun Sets/The Deal

###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Academy Award for Best Original Score
years=1989
before="The Milagro Beanfield War
after="Dances with Wolvessuccession box
title=Golden Globe for Best Original Score
years=1989
before="Gorillas in the Mist
after="The Sheltering Sky

Trivia

Wedding Announcement would later go on to be used in a quite different role, in the The_Little_Mermaid_(musical). Here, it would be called "Beyond my Wildest Dreams" and is about Ariel's joy to be on land.