Beauty and the Beast (soundtrack)

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Name = Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Various Artists


Released = November 1, 1991 (1991 Original Release)
December 18, 2001 (2001 Special Edition Reissue)
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Length = 50:12 (1991 Original Release)
1:04:43 (2001 Special Edition Reissue)
Label = Walt Disney Records
Producer = Alan Menken
Howard Ashman
Reviews = *ScoreReviews Rating|4|5 [http://www.scorereviews.com/reviews/review.aspx?id=48 link]
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"Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" is the soundtrack of Disney's 1991 Academy Award-winning animated feature "Beauty and the Beast". The original score and songs were composed by Alan Menken with lyrics written by Howard Ashman.

The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television. It was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Film Score (lost to the score of the film "Strictly Ballroom").

In 2001, the soundtrack was re-released as a "Special Edition" to coincide with the IMAX re-issue of the film. The new release featured the film version of "Transformation", which had been replaced with an early unused version in some early pressings, the newly animated song "Human Again", the original instrumental intended for the "Transformation" scene, (titled "Death of the Beast [Early Version] " here) and demos for "Be Our Guest" and the title track.

Tracklisting (1991 Original Release)

# Prologue (2:26)
# Belle (5:09)
* Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song
# Belle (Reprise) (1:05)
# Gaston (3:40)
# Gaston (part 2) (2:04)
# Be Our Guest (3:44)
* Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song
# Something There (2:19)
# Beauty and the Beast (2:46)
* Won an Academy Award for Best Original Song
# The Mob Song (3:30)
# To the Fair (1:58)
# West Wing (3:42)
# The Beast Lets Belle Go (2:22)
# Battle on the Tower (5:29)
# Transformation (5:47)
# Beauty and the Beast (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson) (4:04)
* Won an Academy Award for Best Original Song

Tracklisting (2002 Special Edition)

# Prologue (2:26)
# Belle (5:09)
# Belle (Reprise) (1:05)
# Gaston (3:40)
# Gaston (part 2) (2:04)
# Be Our Guest (3:44)
# Something There (2:19)
# Human Again (4:54)
* New song integrated into the film for the 2002 Special Edition IMAX re-issue and 2002 DVD release
# Beauty and the Beast (2:46)
# The Mob Song (3:30)
# To the Fair (1:58)
# West Wing (3:42)
# The Beast Lets Belle Go (2:22)
# Battle on the Tower (5:29)
# Transformation (5:47)
# Beauty and the Beast (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson) (4:04)
# Be Our Guest [Demo] (3:29)
* Previously Unreleased
# Beauty and the Beast [Work Tape & Demo] (3:58)
* Previously Unreleased
# Death of the Beast [Early Version] (1:29)
* Previously Unreleased - Integrated into the film's end credits for the 2002 Special Edition IMAX re-issue and 2002 DVD release.