Toon Talk Special: The 101 Greatest Disney Songs - Part 2 of 2
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#76 - "Family"
Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman "And if I might say so
And if we might say so too
We never could love anyone
As much as we love you"
Vocals: Simon Callow as Old Green
Grasshopper, Richard Dreyfuss/Jeff Bennett as Mr. Centipede, Jane Leeves as Mrs. Lady Bug,
David Thewlis as Earthworm, Susan Sarandon as Miss Spider, Paul Terry/Drew Harrah as James
and Miriam Margolyes/Sally Stevens as Glowworm
Source Album: James & the Giant Peach Original Soundtrack
Behind the Music:
Oscar nomination for Original Score - Musical or Comedy.
(c) Disney
#77 - "Out There"
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1996
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Old and bent, I won't care
I'll have spent one day
Out there"
Vocals: Tom Hulce as Quasimodo,
with Tony Jay as Frollo
Source Album: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Original Soundtrack
Behind the Music:
- Oscar nomination for Original Score - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe nomination for Best Score.
In Der Glockner Von Notre Dame, the German stage version of the movie, this song is known as "Draussen". The Quasimodo/Frollo duet at the beginning of the song is separated and expanded into the song "Zuflucht (Sanctuary)".
#78 - "God Help The Outcasts"
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz "I ask for wealth, I ask for fame
I ask for glory to shine on my name
I ask for love I can possess
I ask for God and His angles to bless me"
Lead Vocals: Heidi Mollenhauer as
Esmeralda
Source Album: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Original Soundtrack
Alternate Track: Bette Midler performs the song on a bonus track
on the soundtrack album.
Behind the Music:
In Der Glockner Von Notre Dame, the song is titled "Helf Den Verstoss'nen", and Quasimodo sings it along with Esmeralda.
#79 - "Someday"
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz "There are some days dark and bitter
Seems we haven't got a prayer
But a prayer for someday better
Is the one thing we all share"
Vocals: Lee Roy Parnell
Source Album: The Best of Country Sing the Best of Disney
Track Note: Like "If I Never Knew You", the original pop
version doesn't do this song justice.
Original Vocals/Source Album: All-4-One, The Hunchback of
Notre Dame Original Soundtrack
Behind the Music:
- Originally Esmeralda's solo in the cathedral, the song was replaced with "God Help the Outcasts" and used during the end-credits of the film.
- It was resurrected, with additional lyrics, in Der Glockner Von Notre Dame as "Einmal", a duet between Esmeralda and Phoebus after they are imprisoned by Frollo.
Disco diva Donna Summer's dance rendition can be heard on Mouse House.
(c) Hollywood Pictures
#80 - "You Must Love Me"
Evita - 1996
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Tim Rice
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away
You must love me"
Vocals: Madonna as Eva Peron
Source Album: Evita Original Soundtrack
Behind the Music:
- Is Eva singing this to her husband, or to the people of Argentina?
- Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Song.
The only original song written for the film version of the Tony Award-winning musical.