Aladdin
Soundtrack to Aladdin by Various
Label	Walt Disney Records
Producer	Alan Menken
Professional reviews
1992 Release * All Music Guide link 2004 Release: * All Music Guide link

Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the Disney film, Aladdin. It was released alongside the film in 1992. The album has been released twice since 1994. In 2001 a remastered release was issued while in 2004, a special edition featuring two new songs was released alongside the Aladdin Special Edition set.

The album won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. It was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Score (lost to the score of the film Schindler's List).

Track listing

Original release

Parenthesis indicate the lyrics' writer.

Side one

1. "Arabian Nights" (Howard Ashman) - Bruce Adler
2. "Legend of the Lamp (Score)"
3. "One Jump Ahead" (Tim Rice) - Brad Kane
4. "Street Urchins (Score)"
5. "One Jump Ahead (Reprise)" (Tim Rice) - Brad Kane
6. "Friend Like Me" (Howard Ashman) - Robin Williams
7. "To Be Free (Score)"
8. "Prince Ali" (Howard Ashman) - Robin Williams
9. "A Whole New World" (Tim Rice) - Brad Kane & Lea Salonga
10. "Jafar's Hour (Score)"
11. "Prince Ali (Reprise)" (Tim Rice) - Jonathan Freeman
12. "Ends of the Earth (Score)"
13. "The Kiss (Score)"

Side two

14. "On a Dark Night (Score)"
15. "Jasmine Runs Away (Score)"
16. "Market Place (Score)"
17. "Cave of Wonders (Score)"
18. "Aladdin's Word (Score)"
19. "The Battle (Score)"
20. "Happy End in Agrabah (Score)"
21. "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" (Tim Rice) - Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle

Special edition (2004) release

1. "Arabian Nights" - Bruce Adler
2. "Legend of the Lamp (Score)"
3. "One Jump Ahead" (Tim Rice) - Brad Kane
4. "Street Urchins (Score)"
5. "One Jump Ahead (Reprise)"(Tim Rice) - Brad Kane
6. "Friend Like Me" - Robin Williams
7. "To Be Free (Score)"
8. "Prince Ali" - Robin Williams
9. "A Whole New World" - Brad Kane & Lea Salonga
10. "Jafar's Hour (Score)"
11. "Prince Ali (Reprise)" - Jonathan Freeman
12. "Ends of the Earth (Score)"
13. "Kiss (Score)"
14. "On a Dark Night (Score)"
15. "Jasmine Runs Away (Score)"
16. "Market Place (Score)"
17. "Cave of Wonders (Score)"
18. "Aladdin's Word (Score)"
19. "Battle (Score)"
20. "Happy End in Agrabah (Score)"
21. "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" - Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
22. "Proud Of Your Boy (Demo)"
23. "High Adventure (Demo)"

Special edition (2006) Europ re-release

1. "Arabian Nights" - Bruce Adler
2. "Legend of the Lamp" - Robin Williams
3. "One Jump Ahead" (Tim Rice) - Brad Kane
4. "Street Urchins (Score)"
5. "One Jump Ahead (Reprise)"(Tim Rice) - Brad Kane
6. "Friend Like Me" - Robin Williams
7. "To Be Free (Score)"
8. "Prince Ali" - Robin Williams
9. "A Whole New World" - Brad Kane & Lea Salonga
10. "Jafar's Hour (Score)"
11. "Prince Ali (Reprise)" - Jonathan Freeman
12. "Ends of the Earth (Score)"
13. "The Kiss (Score)"
14. "On a Dark Night (Score)"
15. "Jasmine Runs Away (Score)"
16. "Market Place (Score)"
17. "Cave of Wonders (Score)"
18. "Aladdin's Word (Score)"
19. "Battle (Score)"
20. "Happy End in Agrabah (Score)"
21. "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" - Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
22. "Proud Of Your Boy (Demo)" - Alan Menken
23. "High Adventure (Demo)" - Alan Menken & Howard Ashman

Score Cues Left Off the Soundtrack

1. Jafar plots
2. Aladdin on the Run (Seuges into "One Jump Ahead")
3. Princess Jasmine/The Sultan Gives Away His Ring
4. Diamond in the Rough/Aladdin and Jasmine/The Guards Arrive
5. Jasmine Confronts Jafar/"It's all my fault"/Aladdin in the Dungeon
6. Jafar in Disguise
7. Cave of Wonders (Full Version)
8. Jasmine Still Upset/Unconscious Aladdin
9. Genie Out of the Lamp
10. Genie Montage (Various short cues, such as taking off his head and explaining his limitations)
11. Escape From the Cave of Wonders/Jafar in Trouble
12. Iago's Idea/Arrival at the Oasis
13. To Be Free (Full Version)
14. Jafar Finds a Solution
15. The Sultan's Wild Ride
16. Time to Say Goodbye to Prince Abooboo
17. Tell Her the Truth/Talking to Jasmine
18. "A Whole New World" (Movie version, with a sweeping cue at the intro, the soundtrack starts with a soft piano)
19. Aladdin Almost Drowns
20. Genie Flies Aladdin Home
21. Aladdin Breaks the Spell
22. Jasmine Finally Choses a Sutor/He Has the Lamp
23. Guilty Aladdin
24. "Hail the Conquering Hero"
25. "Aladdin's World" (Full Version)
26. The Battle (Full Version)
27. The movie version ending of "Happy End In Agrabah," which has an instrumental of "A Whole New World" at the end, when the Genie flies away. The soundtrack has "Friend Like Me" playing.
28. "Friend Like Me" (Instrumental Reprise)

Songs

Arabian Nights

"Arabian Nights" is played in Aladdin's opening. It was originally longer, and would make appearances through the movie. The lyric "'Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home," received protests from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and in the 1993 video release were changed to "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home".^[1] The original release of the Aladdin soundtrack, released before the controversy, retains the original version of "Arabian Nights".

It is later featured in The Return of Jafar, where it uses part of the cut lyrics and is sung by Brian Hannan, ^[2] and this version is also the intro theme of the Aladdin TV series. Aladdin and the King of Thieves features an "Arabian Nights" reprise originally considered for the first film.

One Jump Ahead

"One Jump Ahead" is sung by Aladdin while he escapes from the guards carrying a stolen bread. It replaced "You Can Count On Me", a song that would be used to introduce Aladdin but was considered too pokey^[3]. Tim Rice and Alan Menken's biggest inspiration for "One Jump Ahead" was another cut song, "Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim", that would feature Aladdin and three friends removed from the film. During the writing, Rice and Menken also came to a ballad in the same vein, used in a later scene as "One Jump Ahead (Reprise)". ^[4]

Friend Like Me

"Friend Like Me" is sung by the Genie while he shows off Aladdin his powers in a Cab Calloway-like musical, telling him that he is a friend unlike any other. It was the first scene in Aladdin to have its animation finished, and features some differences in character design.^[5]. This song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, it was Ashman's last nomination.

Prince Ali

"Prince Ali" is sung by the Genie as he introduces Agrabah to Aladdin's royal alter ego, Prince Ali Ababwa. During the song, Robin Williams imitates a Thanksgiving Parade commentor ("Don't they look lovely, June?") and Ethel Merman. The film version cut a conceived intro for the song.^[6]

A Whole New World

Main article: A Whole New World

Prince Ali (Reprise)

A parody of "Prince Ali" sung by Jafar, while the villain uses his newly gained powers to reveal Ali is only a street rat, and sending him to the ends of the earth. The filmmakers liked Jonathan Freeman's singing, and wanted to give Jafar a song, but after rejecting Menken and Ashman's original composition for the scene ("Humilliate the Boy") and a new piece composed by Tim Rice ("Why Me"), it was decided not to put a new song, instead using a spoof of a previous one. ^[6][7]

Cut songs

Other songs were written, and removed from the film. The 2004 soundtrack includes two, both written by Howard Ashman and sung by Alan Menken in the album: "Proud of Your Boy", which Aladdin was going to sing to his mother (a character removed from the film)^[7], and "High Adventure", sung by the Genie to encourage Aladdin (cut because two songs for the Genie were considered enough)^[6].

The 2004 DVD includes as extra features "Proud of Your Boy" sung by Clay Aiken, and four songs in test versions: "Proud of Your Boy", "You Can Count On Me", "Humiliate the Boy", and "Why Me".^[8]

References

External links

• Cut lyrics from Aladdin

Disney's Aladdin
Films	Aladdin | The Return of Jafar | Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Adaptations	Aladdin (TV series) | Disney's Aladdin (video game) | Aladdin, Jr.
Soundtrack	Soundtrack | A Whole New World
Main Characters	Aladdin | Princess Jasmine | Genie | Iago
Villains	Jafar | Abis Mal | Mozenrath | Mirage | Mechanicles | Saleen | Sa'luk | Amin Damoola
Minor Characters	Arbutus | Chaos | Eden

Awards
Preceded by Beauty and the Beast	Academy Award for Best Original Score 1992	Succeeded by Schindler's List
Preceded by Beauty and the Beast	Golden Globe for Best Original Score 1992	Succeeded by Heaven & Earth

Big Three Film Music Awards (1992)
Academy Award Aladdin	Golden Globe Aladdin	BAFTA Award Schindler's List

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