Beauty and the Beast - Special Edition Soundtrack

After the success of their score for The Little Mermaid, the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken returned to Disney for their second fairy-tale adaptation. Sadly, it was the duo's last completed score before Ashman's untimely death at age 41. This soundtrack contains more-conventional show music than The Little Mermaid, owing in large part to Broadway stalwart Angela Lansbury and to Jerry Orbach's Yves Montand impersonation. Most of the songs here were included in the subsequent Broadway adaptation and its cast album, but this disc is superior in its studio polish and cast, which is better suited to the score. –John Sanchez

Tracklist
1. Prologue - Paige O'Hara
2. Belle - Paige O'Hara
3. Belle (Reprise) - Richard White
4. Gaston - Richard White
5. Gaston (Reprise) - Richard White
6. Be Our Guest
7. Something There - Paige O'Hara
8. Human Again - Angela Lansbury
9. The Mob Song - Richard White
10. Beauty And The Beast
11. To The Fair
12. West Wing
13. The Beast Lets Belle Go
14. Battle On The Tower
15. Transformation
16. Be Our Guest (Demo)
17. Beauty And The Beast (Work Tape And Demo)
18. Beauty And The Beast - Celine Dion
19. Death Of The Beast (Original Early Version)



A tribute to Howard Ashman.