Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Friend Like Me

The title comes from the Aladdin song "Friend Like Me" and that's also the opening and closing song of the tape. There's of course the movies love song, the beautiful "A Whole New World" Further more the tape has "Something There" from Beauty and the Beast and a song from the Little Mermaid series "Harmony" but I would rather that they used "Dreaming" what I believe is also from The Little Mermaid series. it might not be directly related to friendship but it's a wonderful song.

A song they could have left out is "Friendship" with clips from. The video also contrains a very nice song from The Fox and the Hound and a song from "Song of the south" and Jungle Book

The sing-a-long song tapes are great for kids who want to learn the songs from their favorite movies. But if you can choose between the whole movie and a sing-a-long I say watch the whole movie. You see the scenes before and after the song and sets the mood for the music piece.

This is probably my all time favourite video in the Disney's Sing Along Songs collection. My favourite song on the video is The Best Of Friends as The Fox and the Hound is 1 of my cutest Disney films along with Dumbo. It's a shame there is no Dumbo on the video, but I don't think there were any friends songs in the film. Perhaps the deleted song Are You A Man Or A Mouse could have been on this video. The songs in order from my favourite to least favourite are:

1 The Best Of Friends 2 Let's Get Together 3 Friend Like Me 4 Something There 5 How Do You Do 6 In Harmony 7 Friendship 8 That's What Friends Are For 9 A Whole New World

The Best Of Friends and Let's Get Together are my only 2 favourites on this video I'm afraid. From Friend Like Me to In Harmony are songs I like, but are not favourites of mine. And Friendship, That's What Friends Are For and A Whole New World are songs I don't like, although I don't hate them.

Why did Professor Owl not introduce Jiminy Cricket at the beginning after the main Disney's Sing Along Songs song was sung by the birds?

I always have loved Disney, and of the sing-along-songs series, Friend Like Me, while not as good as Very Merry Christmas Songs or Zip a De Do Dah for example, it is one of the better ones. The animation in the links is an improvement over the rather scratchy style used in Fun With Music and Be Our Guest(another favourite), while the animation in all the featured segments is of vibrant, fluid quality. We are treated to not one but two songs from the Disney classic Aladdin, Friend Like Me, which is vocal and comedic genius from Robin Williams and the beautiful duet A Whole New World, which also happens to be my personal favourite animated sequence of the film. Of the other songs featured, the most relevant to the theme of the video is the poignant Best of Friends from Fox and the Hound. Something There is also very nice with the closest Beauty and the Beast get to friendship, as well as In Harmony, one of the better songs of the Little Mermaid series, which is not quite as good as the film but one of the better Disney shows to me. Friendship I liked, it was a nice song with good lyrics, but the animation used looks dated. My least favourite was Let's Get Together, a song that is not so bad actually and the film is very good too but compared to the other songs here it is not as memorable and not as relevant to the theme of friendship in the way that Something There and Best of Friends are. All in all, very good. 9/10 Bethany Cox