Aladdin (1992 soundtrack)
Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1992 Disney animated feature film, "Aladdin"". "The album was released by Walt Disney Records on CD and cassette tape on November 10, 1992. The soundtrack was intertwined with demos, work tapes and unreleased masters, as well as original scores in 1994 in a four-disc box set entitled "The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice". A remastered reissue with altered lyrics and new artwork was released in 2001. A special edition reissue featuring two previously released demos and new  artwork was released in 2004. The music on the album earned composer Alan Menken the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, as well as a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and the lyricist Tim Rice the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the first and only Disney song to win a Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the song "A Whole New World" sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. The album is one of the  best-selling soundtrack albums to an animated film, with 3million copies sold in the United States and 300,000 copies sold in Canada. Track listing. Notes Unreleased songs and score. Total time of unreleased score material excluding song instrumentals: 34 minutes and 29 seconds Total time of unreleased score material including song instrumentals: 48 minutes and 51 seconds Cut songs. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken composed several songs for an initial story treatment of Aladdin prior to beginning work on "Beauty and the Beast". This story treatment incorporated several plot elements from the original folk tale and additional characters that were  eliminated during later story development. Three songs from this score - "Arabian Nights", "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" - survive in the final film. Menken composed several additional songs for the subsequent story revisions following Ashman's 1991 death, prior to Tim Rice's involvement with the project. Work tape, demo and master recordings of cut songs have been released in several formats, notably on the 1994 "The Music Behind the Magic" box set, the 2004 special edition soundtrack and the 2004 DVD release of the film. 1990 Original Score - music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman. Additional Menken/Ashman  demos Menken solo demos Menken/Tim Rice demos Score composition and orchestration. Alan Menken's score for "Aladdin" follows the compositional method also used in "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast", with specific cues and motifs derived from the songs' melodies. When Aladdin and Jasmine are together, they are usually accompanied by an instrumental cue of "A Whole New World".