To say nothing of the unfinished print jobs (where’s the :geek: smiley? I guess this will have to do: 
).
Louis Prima being the genius that he was, I have to concur with I Wanna Be Like You, and Everybody Wants to Be a Cat.
I also like the showstoppers like, Be Our Guest, Under the Sea, and Friend Like Me.
I think they also wrote the music heard in the theme parks: in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me…possibly even (shudder) It’s a small world after all…
My favorites are all Ashman & Menken – Kiss the Girl, Gaston, Prince Ali. Digging a little deeper, a shout-out for **I’ve Got No Strings ** (Pinocchio) and **Heffalumps & Woozles ** (Winnie the Pooh & The Blustery Day).
Your loss. You’ve missed some extraordinarily fine entertainment.
Actually, YaWanna…I must agree that 90% of kids movies are pure dreck. But Disney went through a mini-Golden Age in the 80s, with (back to back) Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. Then one of the songwriting duo (I can never remember if it was Ashman or Menken) died, and the quality of the music and the movies as a whole slid badly. But you would enjoy those three.
Of course, this implies that all Disney or children’s films are immature and simple, a fallacy far from the truth. You’re free to not want to watch those movies, obviously, but this is no worse than saying you’re unwilling to see Horror or Sci-Fi or Comedy films because you prefer “more mature, complex entertainment”.
Miller wrote all the songs that he sung in the film, but there are other songs–most notably “Love”, which was nominated for an Oscar–that were written by others.
Thanks for the correction. Anyway, all the songs are terrific.
I like the whole Beauty and the Beast soundtrack, but my favorite is probably Be Our Guest, followed closely by the movie theme, as sung by Mrs. Pot.
From other movies, Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas and Reflection from Mulan are favorites of mine.
Yeah, I bet that version is better. I’m not a Bette Midler fan, yet the song still made me cry.
Man you guys picked some great songs. I’m a fan of everything from Aladdin and Little Mermaid. One song I didn’t see mentioned that I absolutely LOVE is Be Prepared from The Lion King. Heheh, I love the hyenas in the background, “la LA la!”
I really liked “A Whole New World”
This song makes me tear up every time.
“Distant Melody” from Peter Pan. Wendy sings it to the Lost Boys as a lullaby.
My mother used to sing it to my brother and me, and now I sing it to my friends’/relatives’ children. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a recording of it, I just know it from my mom and the sheet music I have.
Shorter than “Baby Mine,” but similarly tear-provoking. 
Its not from a “classic” Disney movie, but I always liked “Stand Out” from A Goofy Movie.
Early each day to the steps of Saint Paul’s
The little old bird woman comes… 
I also fell in love with this from Junglebook:
Father’s hunting in the forest
Mother’s cooking in the home
I must go to fetch the water
'Til the day that I’m grown
'Til I’m grown, 'til I’m grown
I must go to fetch the water
'Til the day that I’m grown
Later from James and the Giant Peach
Love is the sweetest thing
Love never comes just when you think it will
Love is the way we feel for you
We’re family, we’re family, we’re family
All of us and you
I’m going to take issue with this. I agree that the quality of the music declined after Ashman’s death, but the movies as a whole got better. As well-loved as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast are, they’re just not very well animated. Even a relatively minor picture from the Nine Old Men era (Robin Hood, for example) blows **Little Mermaid ** out of the water. The new animation team didn’t really hit their stride until Hercules in 1997 … unfortunately years after Ashman was gone.
Don’t get me wrong. I think The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin are good movies. But I hate to see them held up as a golden age when the studio did better work both before and after.
I also love Baby Mine from Dumbo.
Some of my others:
We Are Siamese and Bella Notte from Lady and the Tramp.
Stay Awake from Mary Poppins…I just love listening to Julie Andrews before she stopped singing.
Even though that isn’t my favorite song (it’s not even my favorite song from that movie) and I hadn’t seen the movie in forever, that’s the only thing I could think when I finally saw Saint Paul’s.
Tough choice…
Some favourites:
Aloha e Komo Mai (Lilo and Stitch theme)
Bear Neccessities (Jungle Book)
Hakuna Matata (Lion King)
Part of Your World (Little Mermaid)
Bibity Bobbity Boo (Cinderella)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins)
Too.
Many.
to List…
in no particular order:
**Oo-De-Laly ** (Robin Hood)
**Part of Your World ** (Little Mermaid)
**Main Street Electrical Parade ** (aka Baroque Hoedown)
**A Whale of a Tale ** (sung by Kirk Douglas in Finding Nemo)
**Pretty Irish Girl ** (sung by Sean Connery in Darby O’Gill)
Mr. Piano Man (Annette in The Golden Horseshoe Review)
**Lavender Blue ** (Burl Ives in So Dear to My Heart)
**A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes ** (Cinderella)
**Little April Shower ** (Bambi)
Alison Krauss’s version of Baby Mine
**Once Upon a Dream ** (words added to Tchaikovsky for Sleeping Beauty)
A Whole New World
and literally everything else by Menken & Ashman.
and so many more. I have **The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song ** 3-disc set from 1992. One of the best purchases I’ve ever made.
I’m also fond of Disneyland’s 50th theme song Remember When, written by Richard Marx and sung by LeAnn Rimes.
I don’t know if it hasn’t been mentioned because it’s bad (only because I have a knack for just loving things around here that most people hate - my tastes, they are so unrefined!) but I am quite fond of that *I Just Can’t Wait To Be King * song from The Lion King. Actually, just about all the songs from the Lion King. I usually avoid Disney movies like the plague because there is so much darn singing going on in them, and that just sends me into hiding anytime it happens (not just with Disney movies, random bursting into song disconcerts me for reasons unknown). But the Lion King? I let them pretty much get away with everything. I really liked it, and the songs were pretty catchy. I really liked the ballad in it, too, Can You Feel the Love Tonight. I liked it in the movie, and I liked hearing Elton on the radio.