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In 1996 2Pac recorded the song "Never Had a Friend Like Me", which interpolates "Friend Like Me". This song is featured on the 1997 original soundtrack for the film, Gridlock'd. Will Smith, as the Genie, performs the song in the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin, [5] and as a rap in the end credits, with DJ Khaled. [6] [7]
Three songs from this score - "Arabian Nights", "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" - survive in the final film. Menken composed several additional songs for the subsequent story revisions following Ashman's 1991 death, prior to Tim Rice's involvement with the project. [13]
[1] [2] "Proud of Your Boy" was one of the first few songs written for Aladdin (1992), after "Arabian Nights" and "Friend Like Me". [3] In early drafts of Aladdin's screenplay, the character of the same name's mother is alive and central to the film's plot, [4] [5] [6] expressing disappointment in her son's behavior. [7]
Aladdin Jr. is a one-act, eleven-scene theatre musical adapted from the 1992 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Aladdin which is an adaptation of the folk tale Aladdin.The production runs between 60 and 80 minutes and includes five female parts, six male parts, and a chorus.
The Star described it as a "clever number about what a good crook Aladdin is", and noted its "revelatory lyrics". [7] The National Post said that in the Broadway version, "The movie's songs — One Jump Ahead, Friend Like Me and, best of all, Diamond in the Rough — come up fresh and sparkling".
The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice is a four-disc box set highlighting the creative evolution behind the music of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
Technology minister Sir Chris Bryant read out AI-generated Adele lyrics to draw attention to how machines can “imagine” versions of existing artists’ songs without paying them any money.
Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright, lyricist and stage director. [1] He is most widely known for his work on feature films for Walt Disney Animation Studios, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Alan Menken composed the music. [2]