Alan Menken

   
Artist: Alan Menken

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 The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

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Tracks: 16

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Distinguished composer/lyricist Alan Menken is responsible for writing many of the catchiest tunes from Disney features of the late '80s through the mid-'90s, including such chart-toppers as "Whole New World" (from Aladdin) and "Colours of the Wind" (Pocahontas). Menken is a calibrate of New York University and got his start when noted dramatist Howard Ashman chose him and Lehman Engel to save the music for his 1978 adaptation of Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Menken and Ashmanhad major success as a team when they altered Roger Corman's pop 1960 motion-picture show Little Shop of Horrors into an off-Broadway bang up that in 1986 became a major lineament celluloid. With Menken authorship the tunes and Ashman writing the lyrics, the duet began working for Disney Studios on The Little Mermaid, the company's first major animated lineament in old age. For their catchy, calypso tune "Under the Sea," Menken and Ashman earned an Oscar. Menken has since earned seven-spot more for his songwriting work. Following Ashman's death in 1991, Menken continued working for Disney with others, notably Stephen Schwartz.





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