# Disney movie soundtracks - most / least favorite? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612 "2005-02-24T00:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/21 "2005-02-24T22:53:59Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I love every single song on the “Mary Poppins” soundtrack. But the one I love the best is “Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag).” This movie as had the final appearance of the great character actor Jane Darwell as the birdwoman. Remeber his in [The Grapes of Wrath](http://www.movieactors.com/wincovers/grapesofwrath.jpeg)? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/22 "2005-02-24T23:52:13Z")
“I Wanna Be Like You” is one of the most impossible-to-keep-your-feet-still-when-you-hear-it songs ever recorded. When it played on a radio at work once I actually ended up grabbing hands and dancing with a 300 pound usually humorless supervisor ala Louis and Baloo. (Ah Louis Prima, there’ll never be another.) _Mamela_ from _The Lion King_ is one of my favorite Broadway numbers of all time from any show. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/23 "2005-02-24T23:57:03Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > This movie as had the final appearance of the great character actor Jane Darwell as the birdwoman. Remeber his in [The Grapes of Wrath](http://www.movieactors.com/wincovers/grapesofwrath.jpeg)? OMG, I never realized that. I loved her as the pompous Mrs. Merriwether in GWTW. (I did some googling and it said she was in her late 80s and retired when the film was made but that Walt Disney asked her personally to be in it because he was such a fan and had always wanted to use her some way; she did it, was overpaid for it, and went back to her retirement.) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/24 "2005-02-25T00:19:09Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > The Little Mermaid has three great songs. > Under the Sea > Kiss the Girl > Part of your World I’d add Poor Unfortunate Souls to that list but then I’m a sucker for a Disney baddie modeled on Divine. The songs from “Pete’s Dragon” were overall pretty atrocious IMHO. Some of my antipathy comes from being made to sing “Candle on the Water” waaay too many times in high school choir, but it really is a pretty motley collection. Although I do confess a certain weakness for the early song with Shelley Winters and family detailing the ways young Pete will be thrashed when they get ahold of him… ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/25 "2005-02-25T00:38:39Z")
The song “Someone’s Waiting for You,” from _The Rescuers_, is a heartbreaker. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/26 "2005-02-25T02:40:32Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I’d add Poor Unfortunate Souls to that list but then I’m a sucker for a Disney baddie modeled on Divine. > > The songs from “Pete’s Dragon” were overall pretty atrocious IMHO. Some of my antipathy comes from being made to sing “Candle on the Water” waaay too many times in high school choir, but it really is a pretty motley collection. Although I do confess a certain weakness for the early song with Shelley Winters and family detailing the ways young Pete will be thrashed when they get ahold of him… How could I forget her. She is tied as my favorite baddie with Maleficent. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/27 "2005-02-25T02:59:01Z")
Thought the score from “The Black Hole” was pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/28 "2005-02-25T06:40:45Z")
So much great stuff. I love in roughly this order: Little Mermaid Mary Poppins Beauty and the Beast Lion King Aladdin Hunchback of Notre Dame Snow White Nightmare Before Christmas I’m probably forgetting some. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612/29 "2005-02-25T15:52:24Z")
Musically, the **Pocohantas** score has _some_ things going for it… just not in the tunes. **Beauty and the Beast** gets my nod as favorite Disney score/soundtrack. Great melodies and witty lyrics that can’t be beat: how does somebody go wrong with lyrics like these: > [@](#): > > Right from the moment when I met her, saw her > I said 'she’s gorgeous!" and I fell. > Here in town there’s only she > Who’s as beautiful as me. > So I’m making plans to woo and marry Belle. > [@](#): > > No… one… plots like Gaston, > Takes cheap shots like Gaston! > ‘Tries to persecute harmless crankpots like Gaston!’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movie-soundtracks-most-least-favorite/291612.md?page=1)