Track Listings (16) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Superstar Hits Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Walt Disney Records Release Date: 11/2/2004 Genres: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Children's Music Style: Disney Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 050086123179 |
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Superstar Hits is an excellent testament to Disney's skill at corralling major talent, even if it's heavy on the Phil Collins. Three of 17 tracks (all from Disney films) belong to the "Sussudio" crooner. Nevertheless, this... more » |
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Amazon.com Superstar Hits is an excellent testament to Disney's skill at corralling major talent, even if it's heavy on the Phil Collins. Three of 17 tracks (all from Disney films) belong to the "Sussudio" crooner. Nevertheless, this is the rare collection that will compel the light-hearted and the leaky-hearted to come together, and the songs cut through genre and generational boundaries more convincingly than the label's other stabs at crowd pleasers. If Peabo Bryson's gargantuan vocals in leadoff track "Beauty and the Beast" seem overly melting, for instance, Sting shores them up minutes later with the touching, but not overly tender, "My Funny Friend & Me." Likewise, after Christina Aguilera exercises her diva's right to vamp it up on "Reflection," Lyle Lovett sweeps away the schmaltz with his regular-guy rendition of "You've Got a Friend in Me." Billy Crystal leaves a little something to be desired vocally with his "If I Didn't Have You," but look no further than Bonnie Raitt, who arrives two songs later, to rescue him with the gorgeousness of her ballad "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again." Whether you know the songs, or the films they come from, doesn't matter; enjoyment of this disc is a circle of life thing. Tina Turner puts it best on track nine: "The music lives in you." --Tammy La Gorce Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThe Marketing of the Mouse. tvtv3 | Sorento, IL United States | 12/15/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "When THE LITTLE MERMAID was released in 1989, Disney executives knew they were on to something with the film's soundtrack. That soundtrack was a huge success for the company. However, Disney execs are always thinking of ways to make even more money, so when the next Ashman/Menken collaboration came along, the Mouse House decided they would get some famous celebrities to sing one of the film's main tracks, release it as a single, and make an even more [...]-load of money. Thus we had the Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson version of "Beauty and the Beast". And thus began the long and current tradition of including a pop version of a song sung by a singing superstar or superstars on every Disney major animated film since then. ALADDIN didn't need much support because Robin Williams was singing so many of the tunes, but POCAHONTAS had Vanessa Williams, HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME had Bette Midler on "God Help the Outcasts", Steviw Wonder had a piece with 98 degrees in MULAN, Phil Collins sung most of the songs in TARZAN, and so on and so forth. Well, the Disney execs have gotten another bright idea and have brought many of those songs together into one album. Ergo, SUPERSTAR HITS.
The album has a lot of good music on it, but it also has it's share of pop music fluff. I bought the album solely because of the song "I'm Still Here" sung by John Rzeznik off of TREASURE PLANET. I really like that song, partly because it appeals to the manish, youthful optimism in my soul. However, I didn't want to buy the original TREASURE PLANET soundtrack just for that song. With SUPERSTAR HITS, I not only get "I'm Still Here" but some other great songs as well. Some of my other favorite songs off the album are: "You'll Be in My Heart" "True to Your Heart" "Strangers Like Me" "When She Loved Me" "You've Got a Friend in Me" "Look Through My Eyes" "If I Didn't Have You" "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again" Disney is bound to collect together another album with tunes that weren't on this one. Actually, they'll probably make two or three. But this is the first and often times the first collection is the the best one." |
