List your Favorite Disney Songs

Man, there are so many! Most of them are good, until they got pop stars to write/sing them as power-ballad dreck.

ahem Josh, "The Siamese Cat Song" ain't from The Aristocats. s'from Lady And The Tramp, if you plee-eeze

You sure about that?

Also great: "Zip a Dee Doo Dah."

"Feed the Birds"
"Let's Go Fly a Kite"
"When She Loved Me" (the only goood Randy Newman Disney song, oddly enough)
"Give a Little Whistle"
"Whistle While You Work"
"Painting the Roses Red"
"Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee"
"The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
"The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers"
"I'm Wishing" (Caetano Veloso's kid does a great version of this)

Most forgettable Disney songs/film: "Hercules," which I actually walked out of, I was so bored.

josh otm. when did this start? beauty and the beast?

No, Beauty and the Beast was ok. Starting going downhill after The Lion King. Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan!! Guess Disney films just aren't as cute if theyre centred round humans.

"hee-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha boy am i in luck
i think about my laughing place, ha-ha-yuk-yuk-yuk-yuk
heh-heh-heh everybody's got a laughing place, a laughing place
to go-ho-ho-ho
take that frown and turn it upside down
and you'll find yours i know-ho-ho"

http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID500890.asp

Among my personal picks:

The Wonderful World of Color theme song
The Monorail Song
Miracles from Molecules
The Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room
There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Annette's Tall Paul

And hell, I'll admit it, Samll World.

Really, just about anything with their signature sound reduces my guard/cynicism.

And needless to say, the Louis Prima performance for Jungle Book!

(I can go on and on)

cuz a square with a horn can make you wish you weren't born every time he plays.

"i wanna be like you," "bare necessities," "the siamese cat song" all seconded/thirded

They started getting shit when Disney started pandering to commercial needs. Mulan was more or less created to appeal to the Chinese government as they were considering banning all Disney products from the country, or something like that.

Racist as shit, but great!!

Also like the Mr. Stork song, also from Dumbo.

I have some affection for that song Belle sings when the sheep's eating her book, too.

Second spot to the one in Cinderella where the mice are making her dress.

Third spot goes to the hummingbird song in the Donald Duck shorts where he's out in the jungle, taking photos of birds. Mostly because it's a lot of fun to break out at random intervals with people who know what the hell you're on about.

Another vote for "I Wanna Be Like You."

When the Rain Rain Rain Came Down

songs in aladdin are p good imo but this is king louie all day, hon mention to baloo tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OaxejZBe0M

Once Upon a Dream - Sleeping Beauty

just got back from a rehearsal for a show next week wherein I will be singing....Can You Feel the Love Tonight

love to hear the falling rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saa98l0yDYQ

all time, thanks for the reminder

"A Whole New World" is one of my favorite songs (period) – I love the lyrics, the campiness, etc. I was too old to see the movie when it came out, so I only discovered the song as an adult.

Wait – I f'd that up. The song I love is "Part of Your World," from The Little Mermaid. Sorry (I told you I don't know the movies from this era!)

Update: still raining

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i have a Beauty & the Beast tea cart that plays 'Be Our Guest' while Mrs. Potts & Chip spin around. i bought it after a very moving Yijing reading in a toy store pointed it out and alluded to its symbolism. It was breathlessly descriptive, like the Yijing was asking me to buy it for them in an exasperated tone. it was large, garish and expensive, and i had my doubts. on the way home, i processed the reading some more and realized it was a present for me. It's my most cherished possession now and i still find new layers of meaning in it. I was gonna post about that in more detail when Angela Lansbury died, but never got around to it.

But 'Little April Shower' is my favorite. Posted because it was raining (still is) and it's still April for a couple more hours and I love the sound of the rain.

it really is beautiful

i have a deep love for the “Alice In Wonderland” title song. it was one of the first things i learned to play on my aunt’s keyboard organ (for some reason she had a Disney songbook)

Very Good Advice from Alice in wonderland is a beautiful mid century cut. So lush. I know it's regarded as a minor film in the Disney annals but I love it. Something like that is a million times better than anything in one of the Pixar flicks.

Do many Pixar films have original songs though? Other than, say Coco, and those Randy Newman songs in Toy Story…

Very Good Advice from Alice in wonderland is a beautiful mid century cut. So lush.

YES, that one and "In a World of My Own" too - love those choir vocals that sound like singing wind

Yes it's all vv gorgeous stuff. I should find that soundtrack.

"Baby Mine," Dumbo
"When You Wish Upon a Star," Pinocchio
"Bibbity Bobbity Boo," Cinderella
"Someday My Prince will Come," Snow White
"Cruella De Vil," 101 Dalmatians

If we get to include live action:
"Chim Chim Che-ree," Mary Poppins
"King of New York," Newsies

Kind of like I can't think of singing in the rain without Malcolm McDowell:
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9c2nqx72.gif

"Dos Oruguitas" is so good

My personal Encanto jam is "What Else Can I Do?"

Love the Dr John version of Cruella De Ville

Baby Mine & When You Wish Upon a Star
make me full-body sob <3

so beautiful

Feed The Birds from Mary Poppins
Portobello Road &
Substitutiary Locomotion from Bedknobs & Broomsticks

and of course Whistle Stop & Oo De Lally from Robin Hood animated

I didn't know Alice In Wonderland was regarded as a minor film. It's definitely in my top 3

it’s an alltimer for me
mary blair’s background art is incredible, such a beautiful modern tone-shift

I think in the Disney canon it's most curiously underrated, though I love it.

veg i’m glad you picked “feed the birds,” that one always gets to me. very elegant chord structure on that one

"Everybody Wants to Be a Cat"

"Cruella DeVil"

"The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers"

"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"

"You've Got a Friend in Me"

Oh, and "Feed the Birds"

look at this stuff, isn't it neat?

Not in Nottingham is a jammer

Los Lobos do a good version

we'd up and fly if we had wings for flyin'