Name: Walt Disney Records Presents Superstar Hits
Brand: Universal Music Distribution
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Walt Disney Records Presents Superstar Hits

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CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

1 November 2004

Album: Walt Disney Records Presents Superstar Hits
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Beauty and the Beast - (with Peabo Bryson/C?line Dion)
2)	You'll Be in My Heart - (with Phil Collins)
3)	Circle of Life - (with Elton John)
4)	Reflection - (with Christina Aguilera)
5)	My Funny Friend & Me - (with Sting)
6)	Colors of the Wind - (with Vanessa Williams)
7)	True to Your Heart - (with 98?/Stevie Wonder)
8)	Strangers Like Me - (with Phil Collins)
9)	He Lives in You - (with Tina Turner)
10)	When She Loved Me - (with Sarah McLachlan)
11)	You've Got a Friend in Me - (with Lyle Lovett/Randy Newman)
12)	Look Through My Eyes - (with Phil Collins)
13)	If I Didn't Have You - (with John Goodman/Billy Crystal)
14)	Burning Love - (with Wynonna Judd)
15)	Will the Sun Ever Shine Again - (with Bonnie Raitt)
16)	I'm Still Here - (with Johnny Rzeznik)

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Album: Walt Disney Records Presents Superstar Hits
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Beauty and the Beast - (with Peabo Bryson/C?line Dion)
2)	You'll Be in My Heart - (with Phil Collins)
3)	Circle of Life - (with Elton John)
4)	Reflection - (with Christina Aguilera)
5)	My Funny Friend & Me - (with Sting)
6)	Colors of the Wind - (with Vanessa Williams)
7)	True to Your Heart - (with 98?/Stevie Wonder)
8)	Strangers Like Me - (with Phil Collins)
9)	He Lives in You - (with Tina Turner)
10)	When She Loved Me - (with Sarah McLachlan)
11)	You've Got a Friend in Me - (with Lyle Lovett/Randy Newman)
12)	Look Through My Eyes - (with Phil Collins)
13)	If I Didn't Have You - (with John Goodman/Billy Crystal)
14)	Burning Love - (with Wynonna Judd)
15)	Will the Sun Ever Shine Again - (with Bonnie Raitt)
16)	I'm Still Here - (with Johnny Rzeznik)

EAN

0050086123179

Writer

Various Artists (Recorded By)

Producer

Dann Huff, Garry Hughes, Chris Thomas, Jimmy Jam, Keith Thomas, Alan Menken, Matthew Wilder, Phil Collins, Randy Newman, Rob Cavallo, Sarah McLachlan, Wynonna Judd, Terry Lewis, Walter Afanasieff

Studio/Live

Studio

Country

USA

Label

Universal Music Distribution

Dimensions

12.7 x 14 x 1.3 centimeters (0.23 kg)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Mark Goldenberg, Michael Landau, Tim Pierce (guitar); Rob Cavallo (acoustic guitar); Nathan East (electric bass); Wil Donovan, Luis Conte (percussion); Miriam Stockley (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Chris Thomas ; Jeff Balding; Peter Mokran; Phil Kaffel.
Recording information: Emerald Entertianment; Ocean Way Nashville; Record One; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA; The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana.
Arrangers: Keith Thomas ; Mark Mancina; Matthew Wilder; Randy Newman; Robbie Buchanan; Walter Afanasieff.
No small part of the reversal of fortune enjoyed by the animated-film division of the Walt Disney company starting in the late 1980s and continuing through the '90s and into the 2000s was the decision to make movie musicals using proven writing and performing talents from the worlds of musical theater and, particularly, adult contemporary pop. The renaissance really started in 1989 with show music writers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's music for The Little Mermaid, which resulted not only in a box-office hit, but also a multi-platinum soundtrack. An important next step occurred with Menken and Ashman's Beauty and the Beast (1991) -- the title song sung by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson -- producing a Top Ten pop hit. The rest was history, and that history is reprised on this disc, which presents the work of pop stars on subsequent Disney animated features including The Lion King (1994; Elton John's "Circle of Life," written by John and show music veteran Tim Rice); Pocahontas (1995; Vanessa Williams' "Colors of the Wind," written by Menken and show music veteran Stephen Schwartz); Mulan (1998; Christina Aguilera's "Reflection," written by Matthew Wilder and show music veteran David Zippel); Tarzan (1999; Phil Collins' "You'll Be in My Heart" and "Strangers Like Me"); and The Emperor's New Groove (2000; Sting's "My Funny Friend & Me"). All of those tracks reached the pop and/or adult contemporary charts, and they are accompanied by the work of such distinguished and venerable pop figures as Lyle Lovett, Sarah McLachlan, Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and Wynonna. While the likes of John, Collins, and Sting no doubt wrote with a sense of the film characters and plots in mind, for the most part these songs do not seem tied specifically to those elements to the same extent that songs in the average Broadway musical are. Rather, they sound like the same kind of pop/rock these artists write and perform generally. The great exception here is the work of Newman, who has more of a movie background. True, from the first note his songs ("When She Loved Me," "You've Got a Friend in Me," "If I Didn't Have You") sound like Randy Newman songs, but the lyrics also relate to the characters in the films Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc., especially "When She Loved Me," in which McLachlan sings touchingly in the voice of a doll abandoned by a little girl who has outgrown her. Still, for anyone unfamiliar with the use of these songs in the films with which they are associated (if there is such a person in existence), this album would sound more like a collection of 1990s to early-2000s adult contemporary/lite-FM rock than anything related to animated children's movies. (Oddly, Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle's "A Whole New World [Aladdin's Theme]" is missing from the collection.) ~ William Ruhlmann

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By Heather on October 30, 2006

this is scuh a great buy for all! contains so many hits from all the disney movies, and they are performed by old artists and new artisits alike! my fave would have to be Circle of Life, performed by elton john, and orginally from the lion king. this is such an inspirational song, and as it this whole great cd!

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