The Best Songs from Disney Movies

What are the best songs from Disney movies?

Everyone, it seems, grows up watching Disney movies. Living in America it is impossible to reach adulthood without seeing at least one or two Disney movies. But Disney movies are not just for kids. Disney movies contain stories touch the hearts of both the young and the young at heart.

Disney made his first animated movie in 1937. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves premired on December 21, 1937. It became an almost instant classic, was the highest grossing film of 1938 (before it was rudely ousted by Gone with the Wind and today ranks in the top fifty on American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. It is hard to believe that this legendary film almost didn't get made. Early in production, Disney was warned that he was going to far. The concept of creating such an extravagant family film seemed ludicrous to his critics. It took him four years to finish Snow White, cost him $1.5 million dollars and almost bankrupted the Disney company.[1]

But Snow White ended up to be just the beginning of a lucrative film career. In the past sixty years Disney has released quite a few animated and live action films (or a mixture of both) that have become beloved American standards such as Mary Poppins, Cinderella, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid.

Most of Disney's movies are musicals while all of them contain songs that take on a life of their own. Who hasn't sung "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to work I go" at least once in his or her life or "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" before having to face a difficult task? The songs become part of our own traditions as people dance their first dances after their weddings to "A Whole New World" or "Beauty and the Beast."

We've selected some of the best Disney songs from its movies and listed them here. For your convenience, we have included links to the sheet music on Sheetmusicplus.com as well as the CD on Amazon.com whenever available. If you are looking to purchase the mp3 or would like to listen to a sample, then click on either the Amazon, Rhapsody, or iTunes links.

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Below are what we consider among the best Disney songs.

1. "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" by Ilene Woods from Cinderella
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2. "A Spoonful of Sugar" by Julie Andrews from Mary Poppins
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3. "A Whole New World" performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Bell from Aladdin
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4. "Baby Mine" by Betty Noyes from Dumbo
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5. "Bare Necessities" by Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman from The Jungle Book
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6. "Be Our Guest" by chorus from Beauty and the Beast
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7. "Beauty and the Beast" by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson from Beauty and the Beast
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8. "Bella Notte" by Disney Studio Chorus from Lady and the Tramp
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9. "Best of Friends" by Pearl Bailey from The Fox and the Hound
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10. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" performed by Elton John from The Lion King (1994)
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11. "Candle On The Water" by Helen Reddy from Pete's Dragon
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12. "Colors Of The Wind" by Judy Kuhn from Pocahontas
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13. "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat" by Phil Harris & Thurl Ravenscroft from The Aristocats
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14. "Go the Distance" by Roger Bart from Hercules
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15. "Hakuna Matada" by Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Jason Weaver, & Joseph Williams from The Lion King
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16. "Happy Working Song" performed Amy Adams from Enchanted
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17. "He's a Tramp" by Peggy Lee from Lady and the Tramp
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18. "If I Didn't Have You" by Billy Crystal & John Goodman from Monsters, Inc
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19. "I'll Make a Man Out of You" by Donny Osmond from Mulan
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20. "Kiss the Girl" by Samuel E. Wright from The Little Mermaid
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21. "Once Upon A Dream" by Mary Costa & Billy Shirley from Sleeping Beauty
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22. "Part of Your World" by Jodi Benson from The Little Mermaid
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23. "Reflection" by Lea Salonga from Mulan
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24. "So Close" performed Jon McLaughlin from Enchanted
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25. "So This Is Love" by Ilene Woods & Mike Douglas from Cinderella
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26. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" by Adriana Caselotti from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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27. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" by Julie Andrews from Mary Poppins
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28. "That's How You Know" performed Amy Adams from Enchanted
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29. "The Second Star To The Right" by The Jud Conlon Chorus from Peter Pan
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30. "Under the Sea" by Samuel E. Wright from The Little Mermaid
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31. "When She Loved Me" by Sarah McLachlan from Toy Story 2
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32. "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940)
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33. "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins from Tarzan
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34. "You've Got a Friend In Me" by Randy Newman & Lyle Lovett & John Goodman from Toy Story
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Footnotes

• [1] Portions of this story was taken out of The Secrets of Success are Not a Secret by Darcy Andries. The book can be found by clicking on the link to the right.

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