Albuquerque and New Mexicos trusted news source. Statewide weather forecasts, live streaming, investigations, entertainment, local events and living. We know what youre thinking and yes, he has been hit in the face with a pool cue. The 1. 0 Best Disney Songs of All Time Ranked Variety. Introduction. Like most American kids, I grew up with Disney music constituting an over sized chunk of my early musical education, then spent most of my teenage years trying to forcibly extricate those thoroughly ingrained melodies from my brain. But now that Im a parent, forced to revisit these songs again and againand again, I cant help but be impressed anew by the sheer breadth, complexity, wit, and at times undeniable beauty of the original music that Disneys feature films have foisted upon the world. In honor of songwriter Lin Manuel Mirandas Disney debut this weekend with Moana, here are the 1. Disney songs that I find myself secretly continuing to play even after the kid has been safely deposited at daycare. Note Before anyone complains, I have not forgotten to include Let It Go. Whether due to my own refined taste, or my complete lack thereof, I will never, ever understand why that song became such a hit. Courtesy of Disney. Baby Mine Dumbo 1. Bambi may get the credit for sending a whole generation to therapists couches with its tragic ending, but up until the third act, that film is largely cheery and bright. Danny Elfman was midway through his transition from an offkilter rock star with Oingo Boingo into a fulltime Alist film composer when he took on songwriting and. At least one child is expected to make a full recovery, police said. Were going to pray these two young kids are going to be ok, Police Chief Ron Haddad said. Hidden Menu Items And Special Promotions Are A Damn Nightmare To Make. If Bambi was an ice cream sundae with an arsenic chaser, 1. Dumbo offered tiny moviegoers a full plunge into severe separation anxiety and rejection, and this tear jerkingly tender lullaby from the brilliant early Disney composer Frank Churchill who committed suicide half a year after the film was released delivers its most crushing blow. Courtesy of Disney. Jacks Lament The Nightmare Before Christmas 1. Danny Elfman was midway through his transition from an off kilter rock star with Oingo Boingo into a full time A list film composer when he took on songwriting and voice duties for this stop motion oddity, and the film took advantage of both talents wonderfully. Whats This and Making Christmas may be more rousing, yet the slow, self doubting Jacks Lament is the films greatest coup, sneaking a melody and arrangement that would have been right at home in Die Dreigroschenoper into a Disney toon. Courtesy of Disney. Can You Feel the Love Tonight The Lion King 1. Thanks to the Billboard chart success of this Elton John Tim Rice composition, Disney would go on to make a habit of recruiting pop stars for soaring centerpiece ballads in future features, resulting in overwrought mush from the likes of All 4 One The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phil Collins Tarzan and Michael Bolton Hercules. But Can You Feel was the real deal, an unusually supple, sensual love song for a studio better known for chaste princess fantasies. Courtesy of Disney. Hes a Tramp Lady and the Tramp 1. With the inimitable Peggy Lee onboard as both a songwriter and a featured singer, Lady and the Tramps soundtrack displayed a slyness and a cock eyed swagger heretofore unseen in the Disney filmography. Possibly for that reason, the films music never really launched a kiddie standard on par with the studios earlier efforts, which just makes this loose, jazzy ditty all the more notable. Courtesy of Disney. Once Upon a Dream Sleeping Beauty 1. Perhaps the most transportingly romantic song in the classic Disney catalog, this waltz from Sleeping Beauty started with an unfair advantage its cribbed directly from Tchaikovsky but serious credit still goes to songwriters Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence for adapting it so successfully into the films expansive, 7. Viewers of BBCs News at Ten were entranced last night when a glitch in its system produced over four minutes of surreal beauty. After binge watching Stranger Things 2, we run down some unresolved questions wed like addressed next time we revisit Hawkins, Ind., in Season 3. A page for describing NightmareFuel Web Original. The internet has been responsible for bringing the world a visual medium where there is, for the most part. MSN Health and Fitness has fitness, nutrition and medical information for men and women that will help you get active, eat right and improve your overall wellbeing. KEY Unread Read Sticky Locked Announcement. Find your game forum. Newest Forum Myths of the World Behind the Veil Collectors Edition. Although Mary Costa and Bill Shirleys original duet remains the go to version, Lana Del Reys narco goth cover for 2. Maleficent was that films only completely successful reimagining. Courtesy of Disney. Friend Like Me Aladdin 1. The ever insinuating, hyper expressive big band singer and bandleader Cab Calloway was always just a few steps away from turning into an actual cartoon, and this hard driving number from Aladdin fills in the missing dots. As sung by Robin Williams genie cycling through too many different inflections and accents to count the song always verges on overkill, and always skillfully pulls back right at the point of no return. Courtesy of Disney. Gaston Beauty and the Beast 1. Aside from overripe stone fruit, nothing bruises more easily than the macho male ego, and this beerhall blowout from Beauty and the Beast submits it to an uproarious bit of satire, as town lothario Gaston enlists his squad of sycophants to prop him up after hes been rejected by Belle. Like all good satire, theres more than a hint of darkness here the lines, No one plots like GastonTakes cheap shots like GastonPlans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston draw a rather relevant parallel between alpha male posturing and violent demagoguery, yet it remains laugh out loud infectious. Courtesy of Disney. Feed the Birds Mary Poppins 1. Composed by brothers Robert and Richard Sherman, Mary Poppins may have the most consistently excellent body of music in the entire Disney filmography. Just about anything from the film could slot into this list, though Feed the Birds occupies a special place in the film itself. Its the first melody we hear in the opening overture it scores a particularly lovely moment when Julie Andrews sings it as a lullaby and it packs a serious punch in its reprise, turning into a funeral march for George Banks long walk to the bank. Courtesy of Disney. Part of Your World The Little Mermaid 1. Looking to break its long lukewarm streak in feature animation, Disney turned to theater veterans Alan Menken and Howard Ashman to bring their signature wit to this comeback effort, and in doing so, molded a whole new model for Mouse House music. A slow building, Broadway style showstopper of the highest caliber, Part of Your World moves effortlessly from busy, literate verses to a longing pre chorus and a belted to the rafters refrain. Despite serious competition including two other songs on this list this is the most flawlessly constructed composition the pair contributed to the Disney canon. Courtesy of Disney. Someday My Prince Will Come Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1. There are no hard and fast rules for what constitutes great songwriting. But when you compose a song for a cartoon princess to sing in a childrens movie, and that song goes on to be covered by Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbra Streisand, Dave Brubeck, and Sun Ra, its safe to say youve gone way above the line of duty. For better or worse, Frank Churchill and Larry Moreys composition is the foundational text of Disneys entire princess industrial complex. But more importantly, its a song for the ages, and the standard by which every subsequent animated films centerpiece tune is judged. Courtesy of Disney.