Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/News-ID514020.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Column: 10/12/11 Guest Column: 50 Greatest Songs from Disney Animated Films</b></a> Guest contributor Doug Gladstone presents his list of the 50 greatest songs from an animated film in Disney history.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 What a great list. There are so many wonderful Disney songs, it would be incredibly hard for me to rank my fans like that!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Pretty good list. Though I'd have made a place for Feed The Birds (which IS the best song of all from a great score), I've Got No Strings and He's A Tramp over such modern mediocrities as Go the Distance. I have to take issue with this though: <Here’s hoping the Disney Company one day has the guts to reissue the movie,> Me too. <which most people have never even seen and is viewed by those who have as a hallmark in interracial relations;> Come on now. I've seen it, and the whole reason they're not releasing it is that it's viewed by most people who have seen it as anything BUT that. I don't think it's any worse than other films of its day (Gone With The Wind being the obvious example), but an enlightened view of interracial relations it ain't.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 A very good list with just one minor quibble. I would have switched Colors of the Wind and Gaston. Colors of the Wind is a good song, in I think a rather mediocore film. Gaston is a great song, in a great film.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I would have definitely come up with a completely different list (I think I would only include about half of the same songs0, but it's great to see how you would have ranked them. I really liked that there were a lot of songs on there that are often overlooked. It definitely made for a much more interesting list than just the usual songs.
Originally Posted By basil fan It's hard to argue with any such list when I love almost every Disney song ever. Besides, he included the Three Caballeros! Minor quibble: Tony and Joe play the accordian and the mandolin, NOT the violin.
Originally Posted By dl1956 re: lack of nomination for Part of Your World: fwiw, I recall reading from way back then, that the music may have been deemed too similar to another Ashman-Menken tune, I don't know which one, from their earlier Little Shop of Horrors musical.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>the music may have been deemed too similar to another Ashman-Menken tune<< And yet, there's "Be Our Guest" at #2. ;-)
Originally Posted By Bellella Are you mad?!! "Feed the Birds" isn't on this list, and it is not only one of the greatest Disney songs, but probably one of the greatest songs in the history of EVER!!! The Sherman brothers are masters of the art. I also notice the omission of any songs from the postwar package features. I know they aren't as well-known as they should be, but there are some really good songs in there. Or are they omitted because they weren't all written by Disney staff composers?
Originally Posted By leobloom I sorta hate "Feed the Birds." I know Walt loved it, it's a classic tune, etc. But I don't like the melody, and then again, I don't reall like Mary Poppins all that much. So cast me out as a heretic.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>So cast me out as a heretic.<< Careful. Bellella is just the one to do it. PS: Mary Poppins isn't an animated film.
Originally Posted By basil fan I thought of that detail, but he says in the article that fillms with significant animated sections are counted. Otherwise Candle on the Water and Zip-a-dee-doo-dah would also be out.
Originally Posted By mawnck Seems to me the animation in SotS and Pete's Dragon is considerably more significant than the stuff in Mary Poppins. But point taken. Candle on the Water has nuttin' to do with the animated part.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: I would have chosen many of the same songs--only I would have put them in a different order of importance. I also would have added a couple of songs from Bedknobs & Broomsticks--like The Age of Not Believing and Portabello Road. ORWEN: What about Beautiful Briny Sea? ORGOCH: I woulda chose The Great Mad Madame Mim song, my own dang self--cause she's my best brewin' buddy! ORDDU: Bambi has some great songs, as well, such as Love is a Song and I Bring You a Song.
