Artist: Alan Menken
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Other
Discography:
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Year:
Tracks: 16
Distinguished composer/lyricist Alan Menken is responsible for writing many of the catchiest tunes from Walt Disney features of the lately '80s through the mid-'90s, including such chart-toppers as "Unit Newly World" (from Aladdin) and "Colours of the Twist" (Matoaka). Menken is a calibrate of Freshly York University and got his start when noted dramatist Catherine Howard Ashman chose him and Lehman Engel to salve the music for his 1978 adaptation of Vonnegut's God Consecrate You, Mr. Rosewater. Menken and Ashmanhad major succeeder as a team when they altered Roger Corman's pop 1960 picture picture Little Shop at of Horrors into an off-Broadway bang up that in 1986 became a major lineament celluloid. With Menken composition the tunes and Ashman writing the lyrics, the couple began workings for Walter Elias Disney Studios on The Little Mermaid, the company's first-class honours degree john Major animated feature in old old age. For their catchy, calypso bulbosa tune "Below the Ocean," Menken and Ashman earned an Oscar. Menken has since earned seven to a greater extent for his songwriting work. Followers Ashman's death in 1991, Menken continued working for Walter Elias Disney with others, notably Sir Leslie Stephen Schwartz.
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