1. Fathoms Below
2. Main Titles Score
3. Fanfare Score
4. Daughters of Triton
5. Part of Your World
6. Under the Sea
7. Part of Your World (Reprise)
8. Poor Unfortunate Souls
9. Les Poissons
10. Kiss the Girl
11. Fireworks Score
12. Jig Score
13. The Storm Score
14. Destruction of the Grotto Score
15. Flotsam and Jetsam Score
16. Tour of the Kingdom Score
17. Bedtime Score
18. Wedding Announcement Score
19. Eric to the Rescue Score
20. Happy Ending
21. Kiss The Girl - performed by Ashley Tisdale
22. Poor Unfortunate Souls - performed by Jonas Brothers
23. Part of your World - performed by Jessica Simpson
24. Under the Sea - performed by Raven-Symone
25. Music Video - Poor Unfortunate Souls - performed by Jonas Brothers
26. "Making Of" Music Video - Kiss The Girl - performed by Ashley Tisdale
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Before Broadway was Disneyfied and Times Square became a mall, the best Broadway musicals were being written for Disney animated features by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. Their songs for The Little Mermaid created the mold from which their even more popular work (Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin) would be cast. Almost every tune in Mermaid has its (slightly inferior) counterpart in Beauty, for example. But there's no topping the Oscar-winning calypso show-stopper, "Under the Sea"--in which a Caribbean crab convinces you that "Darlin' it's better/Down where it's wetter." Other songs, just as delightful, are even more impressive in the context of the movie. The rapturous "Kiss the Girl" accompanies a scene in which, despite the whispered urgings of creatures all around, the romantic hero does not act on the title's advice! That's the kind of abstract dramatic (OK, comedic) conceit you'd expect from Harold Pinter rather than Disney. And the gruesomely hilarious "Les Poissons" gives us a fisheye view of a kitchen where the seafood chef is a sort of French Ed Gein--a sadistic murderer who brutally tortures and chops up his victims, then eats them! Who says Disney never did black comedy? "...I stuff you with bread/It won't hurt, 'cause you're dead/And you're certainly lucky you are...." Lyricist Ashman may not have been Cole Porter, but he was the next best thing. --Jim Emerson
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Little Mermaid
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2006-10-03)
- Publisher: Walt Disney Records
- Label: Walt Disney Records
- Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Soundtrack, Special Edition
- Studio: Walt Disney Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 12 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #1814
Avg. Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Buy it Now, You Fool 2008-07-31
Comment: I have such a soft spot for musicals -- especially Disney musicals. The Little Mermaid is one of my very favorites -- most of the songs are so catchy I can't help but tap my foot and sing along. After a bad day there's nothing better than turning this puppy on full blast. Every song you remember is here, including the wonderful orchestral score.
The bonus songs are terrifying, however. Whoever thought that the Little Mermaid needed to be put to horrific, half-baked pop/r&b and shrieked by children of dubious talent should probably have large rocks thrown at them. Just a suggestion. However, I chose to ignore them, and I rate this disc by the value of the first disc, whose superior quality easily drowns out the second CD's terrifying contributions.
Anyway, just get this CD and enjoy the delightful croonings of Ariel and co! You won't regret it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great Originals, Remake by Jonas Brothers unfortunate... 2008-06-12
Comment: Ive always loved the Little Mermaid and was excited to see this set, but I have to say I was disappointed to hear the Jonas Brothers singing Poor Unfortunate Souls. When Ursula sings this song kids know she's one of the "bad guys" but its a strange message that daughters and their friends get when the hottest boy band out today is singing about girls needing to basically shut up and be pretty to get a man. Stick with the originals and skip disc 2.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great CD! 2008-03-29
Comment: I bought this CD mainly for the Jonas Brothers song, "Poor Unfortunate Souls". But the whole CD is excellent & I liked it so much that I played it twice the day I got it!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent product 2008-03-01
Comment: The CD certainly captures the essence of the film. My daughters enjoy listening to the CD while they are playing and they don't have to be watching tv all the time!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Loved it then. Loved it now. 2007-04-10
Comment: Little Mermaid was the first video I ever owned myself. Loved it from the first day I saw it. I don't hold the same view as I did as a child but it's still a wonderful story. And the music is just plain fun. The best part of this special edition is Ashley Tisdale's rendition of Kiss The Girl. Let me start by saying I have issues about Disney's need to turn every actor into a singer and every singer into an actor and the promote them to the ends of the earth. And it's not so much Ashley Tisdale - though she's very talented - that makes me love this version of the song. Whoever revised the arrangement is who I'd like to really thank. I love every thing about how this version was put together. Upbeat. Fun. Totally "sqeeable". But then I'm a hopeless romantic.
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