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| Little Mermaid | 
 enlarge | Creators: Alan Menken, J.a.c. Redford, Ashley Tisdale, Daughters Of Triton, Jessica Simpson, Jodi Benson, Jonas Brothers, Pat Carroll, Raven-symoné, Rene Auberjonois, Samuel Wright, Ship's Chorus
Label: Walt Disney Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1779
Format: Enhanced, Extra Tracks, Soundtrack, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 861618
UPC: 050086161874
EAN: 0050086161874
ASIN: B000FZDIL8
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new and factory shrinkwrapped. Not a remainder, CD-club copy, promo or cheap import. Official Walt Disney enhanced 2 disc special edition CD release, exactly as pictured and described. In stock. Buy from a trusted seller. Check our rating.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Fathoms Below | | • | Main Titles Score | | • | Fanfare Score | | • | Daughters of Triton | | • | Part of Your World | | • | Under the Sea | | • | Part of Your World (Reprise) | | • | Poor Unfortunate Souls | | • | Les Poissons | | • | Kiss the Girl | | • | 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 |
Disc 2
| • | Kiss The Girl - performed by Ashley Tisdale | | • | Poor Unfortunate Souls - performed by Jonas Brothers | | • | Part of your World - performed by Jessica Simpson | | • | Under the Sea - performed by Raven-Symone | | • | Music Video - Poor Unfortunate Souls - performed by Jonas Brothers | | • | "Making Of" Music Video - Kiss The Girl - performed by Ashley Tisdale |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Before Broadway was Disneyfied and Times Square became a mall, the best Broadway musicals were being written for Disney animated features by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. Their songs for The Little Mermaid created the mold from which their even more popular work (Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin) would be cast. Almost every tune in Mermaid has its (slightly inferior) counterpart in Beauty, for example. But there's no topping the Oscar-winning calypso show-stopper, "Under the Sea"--in which a Caribbean crab convinces you that "Darlin' it's better/Down where it's wetter." Other songs, just as delightful, are even more impressive in the context of the movie. The rapturous "Kiss the Girl" accompanies a scene in which, despite the whispered urgings of creatures all around, the romantic hero does not act on the title's advice! That's the kind of abstract dramatic (OK, comedic) conceit you'd expect from Harold Pinter rather than Disney. And the gruesomely hilarious "Les Poissons" gives us a fisheye view of a kitchen where the seafood chef is a sort of French Ed Gein--a sadistic murderer who brutally tortures and chops up his victims, then eats them! Who says Disney never did black comedy? "...I stuff you with bread/It won't hurt, 'cause you're dead/And you're certainly lucky you are...." Lyricist Ashman may not have been Cole Porter, but he was the next best thing. --Jim Emerson
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 Good music collection goes with the Special Edition DVD. October 24, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just as how I expected, this music collection has been published. Because after the special edition of a movie had been published, its soundtrack CD would come along as well. At the beginning, I expected that this CD must be just like other special edition CDs, having recorded all songs from the movie but without scores. But this one is so different, it's really complete.
Disc 1, I can say that, is the soundtrack of "The Little Mermaid". All the songs and scores which are familiar to us are in this disc. It a great difference to any other special edition CDs, all the songs and scores were recorded completely. It's a good chance to those people who haven't collected the initial edition of the soundtrack(The initial edition's cover was more pretty than this one though). It's really worth collecting to no matter who have or not got the initial edition soundtrack CD.
Well, disc 2 is good too. There're songs from the movie sung by other singers. If you have listened to the album "Disney Mania", the 3rd track, "Part of Your World" by Jessica Simpson, won't be unfamiliar to you. It's really the most beautiful version of all versions(except the one in the movie of course) of this song, it impressed me so much. I was a little surprised that "Poor Unfortunate Souls" can be sung in that way, by young men! The tune and style have been changed a lot, then give me very very different feeling. Well, the feeling is not bad! ^^ "Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea" were sung by girls, they're very lively though, not so good as the versions in "Disney Mania". However, the tracks in disc 2 are wonderful too. Oh, there're music videos in this disc!
I think this edition of special soundtrack is the best one ever, than any other. The special edition CDs of "Aladdin" and "The Lion King-2: Simba's Pride" made me not very satisfied with them. But this one is quite good in my opinion, it's a great part of my Little Mermaid collection.
 JUST like the movie! October 25, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Listening to this in it's entirety is almost as great as watching the movie. My daughter gets happy when she hears the first couple of notes and runs to the TV thinking the movie is on. I was really planning on buying the original CD that was released in 1988 because there were not many reviews for this new release but I'm so glad I changed my mind. This CD sounds great and is truely a score of the movie. Every song is there. If you end up not liking the second CD, doesn't matter because the 1st cd is worth your money already, I didn't mind the 2nd cd but that's not why I purchased the set anyway. made no difference to me, we just keep the first one on repeat and love every minute of it.
 great first cd, not so great second cd. October 11, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Little Mermaid is my absolute favorite Disney movie of all time. But lately I've become very disappointed because Disney insists on including music videos in a lot of the rereleases of classics with some random Disney Channel actor singing the songs. I understand that a lot of songs out now are remakes, but these are just bad except for Jessica Simpson's version of "Part of Your World", but Ashley Tisdale's version of "kiss the girl" is annoying.
awesome soundtrack to an awesome movie, but POOR remakes... October 14, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
the movie is timeless and the soundtrack/score for it goes as follows. none the less, i will deduct a whole star for the second disk entirely. i know disney wants to make more money (and they have every right to), but some of the newer artists have butchered these songs entirely. stick with the original, you won't be disappointed..
Loved it then. Loved it now. April 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Little Mermaid was the first video I ever owned myself. Loved it from the first day I saw it. I don't hold the same view as I did as a child but it's still a wonderful story. And the music is just plain fun. The best part of this special edition is Ashley Tisdale's rendition of Kiss The Girl. Let me start by saying I have issues about Disney's need to turn every actor into a singer and every singer into an actor and the promote them to the ends of the earth. And it's not so much Ashley Tisdale - though she's very talented - that makes me love this version of the song. Whoever revised the arrangement is who I'd like to really thank. I love every thing about how this version was put together. Upbeat. Fun. Totally "sqeeable". But then I'm a hopeless romantic.
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