My first upload! Yay! :) Here is the 1994 CD set The Music Behind the Magic, released by Disney Records, celebrating the music of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, featuring worktape excerpts, demos, final recordings, and the score to Howard Ashman's original treatment of Aladdin. (As a bonus, I've included the original version of "Arabian Nights" with disc 3, and the worktape demo to the song, with disc 4.) Included with the tracks is a high-quality scan of the corresponding album cover, with a transcript of lyrics and Alan Menken's song notes is to follow soon.



Disc 1: The Little Mermaid
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken


MP3: http://www.4shared.com/rar/Zrj_C5KM/MBTM-01-Mer-MP3.html
FLAC - Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/rar/Zf5sK9PO/MBTM-01-Mer-FLACpart1.html
FLAC - Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/rar/O7aWklbc/MBTM-01-Mer-FLACpart2.html
Lyrics & Song Notes: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j0fb8kq855hrypc

Disc 2: Beauty and the Beast
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken



MP3: http://www.4shared.com/rar/5XOK8rEU/MBTM-02-Beast-MP3.html
FLAC: http://www.4shared.com/rar/YR6W7KbE/MBTM-02-Beast.html
Extras (128 MP3): http://www.4shared.com/rar/hXY9l3ec/MBTM-02-Beast-Extras.html

Disc 3: Aladdin
Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice

MP3: http://www.4shared.com/rar/Lb1GfMCW/MBTM-03-Al-MP3.html
FLAC: http://www.4shared.com/rar/lVgR1KFC/MBTM-03-Al.html
Corrected Song Notes & Lyrics: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?csc1t3mm0sw5un7


Disc 4: Aladdin (The Original Score)
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken

MP3: http://www.4shared.com/rar/HuFDyKkv/MBTM-04-AL-Ashman-MP3.html
FLAC: http://www.4shared.com/rar/BEpVuppe/MBTM-04-AL-Ashman.html



Full "Lyrics and Notes" book.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?kifvpjdf8w4nxjx

WOWOWOWOWOW!11 You've just made my YEAR!!!! :)

Tried the MP3 link and got a permission denied already.

looks very good! excited for flac links :D

Really? "Fireworks," a piece of the score, is what kills it? Not "Part of that World?" Or "Under the Sea?" Hmm. Okay.

Once I get home, it'll be re-uploaded to 4Shared.

Thank you Justin. I was going to dl but i only got a "Permission Denied" page.

Hopefully once you posted on 4shared the link can stay a little longer.

FLAC set has uploaded! Enjoy! :)

4shared links are working! Thanks :)

Was able to get the MP3s uploaded! YAY!

Tried the MP3 link and got a permission denied already.

Can anyone else verify this? I tried it myself, and all I got to was "You must sign in to download this file."

Wow thanks uploader. Never thought I'd get this in lossless!

lossless version works brilliant! thanks many!

mh, download not possible because you have to register on 4shared.
can someone mirror this release? thank you

you could try bugmenot.com, they have throwaway login to 4share

Thank you very much for the FLAC version! The download links are working for me. I wish Disney would have given "Pocahontas," "Hunchback," and "Hercules" the same treatment as this set.

It's interesting to note how the initial idea gets improved with arrangements, orchestration and the artists' performances; some times planned in advance by the composer, and others as a consequence of needed changes. For example, we hear in the demo of "Les Poissons" that it is initially conceived as a lesson from the chef to a student's audience. But in the film version, chef Louie is alone in the kitchen, happily minding his own business, and so the original introduction had to change to the epic lines

"Mmmmm, mmmmmm,
Nouvelle Cuisine,
Les Champs-Elysees
et Maurice Chevaalieeee-e-e-e-eer!" xD
...masterfully finished with off-key vibrato and cough.

Learning more about the history of your favorite achievements of humankind is always great, so, thanks, JustienHoskie. And Menken for president.

Why haven't I posted Beauty and the Beast yet? Cause, I was hard at work on this: The lyrics and Alan Menken's song notes from the set's book, painstakingly transcribed. (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j0fb8kq855hrypc) I took great pains to type everything up as it appears in the book, not adding anything other than the lyrics to the work tape intro to "Part of Your World," and adding the lyrics to the "Part of Your World" demo (combined with the final track in the book).

Also, I made sure to credit the main vocalist on every final song track, but I have just realized that I forgot about "Les Poss" and "Kiss the Girl." As I'm burned out for the night, I shall fix it tomorrow. If you're someone who doesn't care too much, you may download now. If you're a perfectionist like me, wait a day. :) (If you find any possible typos, let me know and I'll see if I goofed up and fix it if I did.)

Splendid, JustinHoskie. I do care but got already the first version. This adds much to the knowledge and enjoyment, and it's particularly convenient to us non English native speakers, but you're going into lots of work. Just the scans, along with the missing lyrics in text files would save you much trouble, unless you suffer the perfectionist course (then it is unavoidable). At least take it easy; there's no hurry.

About the "Les Poissons" introductory lines, credit where it's due: Ashman and Auberjonois for presidents too.

Splendid, JustinHoskie. I do care but got already the first version. This adds much to the knowledge and enjoyment, and it's particularly convenient to us non English native speakers, but you're going into lots of work. Just the scans, along with the missing lyrics in text files would save you much trouble, unless you suffer the perfectionist course (then it is unavoidable). At least take it easy; there's no hurry.

About the "Les Poissons" introductory lines, credit where it's due: Ashman and Auberjonois for presidents too.

I thought about scans, especially for the song notes, but I'm a bit lazy and I wouldn't know when I would finish it, and I would want to scan the entire book, which just wouldn't be possible with my scanner.

And, once I found out the voice recognition software on Windows 7 can be used for dictation, it became a bit more manageable.

And FYI, the books have been fixed and re-uploaded. :)

I've just seen images of the book and yes, it's very big; not the CD booklet I had imagined.

And got already the fixed pdf book. Thanks again,

thank you so much justinhoskie for this post, you rule! and to zeratul13, bugmenot worked like a charm! you rule too

Thank you thank you thank you!!! You are AWESOME!!

The Beauty and the Beast disc has been released! This time, I included the song notes and lyrics with the MP3 and FLAC sets. Again, I tried to keep everything the same as in the book, but did change an "and" to "und" in the final lyrics to "Be Our Guest," included the work tape lyrics to "Beauty and the Beast," and added two "Editor's Notes" before the "Be Our Guest" demo and "Something There," just adding a bit more background information. Again, if you see something you think is wrong, let me know, and I'll see if I can fix it.

Also, I'm including an extra set that includes the demo to "Something There," and the full demos to "Beauty and the Beast" (with an introductory scene before) and "Belle." There is some generation loss on them, and they are 128 MP3s, but they do exist.

Now, on to Aladdin.... Speaking of which, does anyone know know where I can find a lossless version of the original recording of "Arabian Nights?"

Many thanks for the 'Beauty and the Beast' upload. I also really appreciate the time you took to do them in the first place and hope others will also.

The Beauty and the Beast disc has been released! This time, I included the song notes and lyrics with the MP3 and FLAC sets. Again, I tried to keep everything the same as in the book, but did change an "and" to "und" in the final lyrics to "Be Our Guest," included the work tape lyrics to "Beauty and the Beast," and added two "Editor's Notes" before the "Be Our Guest" demo and "Something There," just adding a bit more background information. Again, if you see something you think is wrong, let me know, and I'll see if I can fix it.

Also, I'm including an extra set that includes the demo to "Something There," and the full demos to "Beauty and the Beast" (with an introductory scene before) and "Belle." There is some generation loss on them, and they are 128 MP3s, but they do exist.

This is great! Thank you for your effort! :-)

thank you so much, again!

Speaking of which, does anyone know know where I can find a lossless version of the original recording of "Arabian Nights?"
By "original recording," do you mean demo or the version from the original soundtrack album with the line about cutting off an ear?

By "original recording," do you mean demo or the version from the original soundtrack album with the line about cutting off an ear?

The original soundtrack version with "Where they cut off you're ear / If they don't like your face." I have the demo.

I believe I have that CD, so the chances of a lossless rip are very good. ;)

Now, on to Aladdin.... Speaking of which, does anyone know know where I can find a lossless version of the original recording of "Arabian Nights?"

First of all...thx for this great share :)
Here's my rip (.wav) of Arabian Nights with the original lyrics from my own CD.
If you want a scan of the booklet with those lyrics just let me know.

Cheers,

Stefan

Aladdin - Arabian Nights (http://novafile.com/w0s6924809rj)

First of all...thx for this great share :)
Here's my rip (.wav) of Arabian Nights with the original lyrics from my own CD.
If you want a scan of the booklet with those lyrics just let me know.

Cheers,

Stefan

Aladdin - Arabian Nights (http://novafile.com/w0s6924809rj)

Thanks! And I would LOVE a scan of the booklet! :)


I believe I have that CD, so the chances of a lossless rip are very good. ;)

The above comment makes the offer invalid, but thanks for the offer nonetheless. :)

Awesome, and thank you for offering this rare set in FLAC.

Decided to do a quick upload for you guys which, like everything else I do, turned a bit more complicated than I expected.

Here are all the official recordings I could find of "Arabian Nights," all (currently) in 320 MP3. (http://www.4shared.com/zip/13u2j8Cr/ArabianNightsRecordings.html) Enjoy...

The two final sets have been uploaded!

Disc 3 is Aladdin. I added the original recording of "Arabian Nights" at the end of the disc (thanks again to Darth Neo), and edited out the demo introduction to the edited version. (It was tacked on anyway, and you'll still hear it in disc four.) Also, I included the song notes and lyrics in the sets again, but I noticed a few large mistakes after they were uploaded, so I uploaded a corrected version on it's own. Again, I tried to keep notes and lyrics to as close to the book as possible.

Disc 4 is the score to Howard Ashman's treatment of Aladdin. As "Arabian Night" "in it's original form [was] omitted from this release," I edited together a complete demo to it, using the demo intro from disc three, and the demo included in Howard Sings Ashman. (If you listen closely, or maybe not so closely, you can hear the switch to the restored demo from the noised-filled intro.) For the demo, I included the liner-notes and lyrics from Howard Sings Ashman.

Thanks, JustinHoskie. Your efforts are appreciated and the complementary tracks, interesting additions. Besides, I'd suggest you to provide the original track #01 of Disc 3 to make possible the layout of the complete set plus the tracks contributed by you, instead of just the kind replacement of the original track. Don't forget we don't have the hardware version. :)

I wouldn't be so nitpicky with this, but since you requested it, here go two minor errors I caught in the pdfs:
- In the second pdf, the Silly Girls: "Monsiour Gaston" instead of "Monsieur Gaston".
- In the third one: in "Prince Ali, Reprise (Final)" it reads "(Main hoop vocals by Jonathan Friedman)". The correct surname is Freeman, similar to the one of David Friedman, credited as vocal arranger.

But nobody needs an update for just those two; and after so much work you may just upload that track and deservedly rest in peace.

Thank you again for your time and effort in putting this together. This is really great! :-)

Sorry for the late reply. I changed my OS to windows 8 which doesn't support my scanner :(

Here you go:
Aladdin Booklet
Multiupload.nl - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites! (http://www.multiupload.nl/1BNENEGT0N)

Thanks for the book feedback, @kooke! I put it to good use!

Here are all the lyric and song notes, combined into one PDF. (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?kifvpjdf8w4nxjx) I went back in and made the corrections you pointed out (How the hell did I miss "Main hop vocals?"), as well as alot of other corrections. (When I get ink for my printer, I'll print it out, go over it with a pen, and do another weed through for any more I need to fix.)

Also, I made it look more like a polished book, with a cover made from the cover of the book included with the set (I still have to work on making image PDFs the size of a piece of paper), table of contents (with hyperlinks to the different sets, for ease of access), and images from the films as headers.

Again, if you see anymore typos, let me know and I'll see if it needs to be fixed. (Also, I've decided not to make corrected versions for the isolated notes. Sorry, but this is only 2 MB, and it's relatively easy to ignore the sets you don't want.)

Enjoy...

So, you still have the perfectionist itch, haven't you? I find it very convenient having all that data in a single pdf, and the inclusion of the images and hyperlinks is very welcome. Thank you very much, JustinHoskie.

Thank you for these 3 scores!

Thank you very much :)

Disc four is not the original score but sung demo versions of songs instead.

Disc four is not the original score but sung demo versions of songs instead.

Yes. The score to Howard Ashman's original treatment only exists as a series of demos.

You are my hero. Seriously.

thanks for this!

4shared links are working! Thanks :)

yeh, but registration is required :(

yeh, but registration is required :(
*sigh* The reason I use 4Shared is because I have rarely seen them take down things. I can click on any link to any other file host posted on this forum a year ago, and it'll be down. I can click on a 4Shared link from three years ago, and it'll still be up.

And, because the "I have to sign up?!" comments are annoying, I have created an account just for downloading my files. PM me for the details.

bugmenot.com has free account info for 4shared (and other sites similar). i just go there. accounts are often added and removed when no good.

Wow. Thank you. I have longed for this. Awesome.

Sorry for the late reply. I changed my OS to windows 8 which doesn't support my scanner :(

Here you go:
Aladdin Booklet
Multiupload.nl - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites! (http://www.multiupload.nl/1BNENEGT0N)

All the links in the thread are still active, except this one. Any chance of a re-up please ?.

thanks

:D

HOLY CRAP

THANK YOU!!

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:D

HOLY CRAP

THANK YOU!!

O cruel fate. Premium download only... Oh 4shared. I got my hopes high there...

It's not premium; signing up is enough to download there.

Sorry for the late reply. I changed my OS to windows 8 which doesn't support my scanner

Here you go:
Aladdin Booklet
Multiupload.nl - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!


All the links in the thread are still active, except this one. Any chance of a re-up please ?.

Yes, please; can anyone reupload those scans?
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Well, it happens that I had that file in the darkest reaches of my HD, so here are the 12 images of the booklet: http://ulozto.net/xamdKD4M/aladdin-booklet-rar

Thank you SO much for all of these! :D

Thank you very much

Big thanks for sharing this set

Heads up - one of my pencilled-in fan labour projects this year is a restoration of the demo cassette material from this release. One, to sort out the tape hiss problem but ostensibly to remove that ear-splitting high frequency whine that affects a lot of the material on this set, making it unlistenable to me. I've got good hearing though!

To the poster of this fine material, I'd like to thank you very much!

Thank you so much!

Thanks a lot!

Heads up - one of my pencilled-in fan labour projects this year is a restoration of the demo cassette material from this release. One, to sort out the tape hiss problem but ostensibly to remove that ear-splitting high frequency whine that affects a lot of the material on this set, making it unlistenable to me. I've got good hearing though!

That would be an amazing project. Please keep me in the loop!

Could someone re-upload disc 2, pretty please?

The links of disc 2 (Beauty And The Beast) in FLAC and the extras are still online. You don't need the MP3, do you?

Thanks

Great effort and work! Thanks a ton

Thanks!

Can someone scan and upload the 4 CD COVERS? That's the only thing that Im missing, and I would love to have that!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Can someone scan and upload the 4 CD COVERS? That's the only thing that Im missing, and I would love to have that!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Here you go!

https://mega.nz/#F!PsQlgQyA!Ez5LT4Fin5Uc1B90AuvbSw

Thank you so much! AMAZING! Everything from this treasure is more than marvelous!