• Name: Alan Menken
• Birthday: 07/22/1949
• Birth Place: New Rochelle NY
• Country: USA
• Period: Contemporary
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
(4) A Christmas Carol, musical
A Little Dental Music, song (cut from "Little Shop of Horrors") WA
(2) A Whole New World (for Disney's Aladdin)
(16) Aladdin, film score
(2) Babe [unfinished], musical play
Bad, song (cut from "Little Shop of Horrors") WA
(8) Beauty and the Beast (for Disney's Beauty and the Beast)	1995
(31) Beauty and the Beast, film score
(12) Beauty and the Beast, musical play
(2) Belle (for Disney's Beauty & the Beast)
Crystal, Ronnette & Chiffon
Daughter of God
(3) Enchanted, film score WA
Ever Ever After, song (from the animated film Enchanted) WA
Growing boy
(2) Happy Working Song, song (from the animated film Enchanted) WA
(8) Hercules, film score	1998
Home On The Range, film score
(9) Hunchbach of Notre Dame, film score	1997
(2) I Won't Say (I'm in Love) (for Disney's Hercules)
(2) If I Can't Love Her (for Disney's Beauty & the Beast, the musical)
Kicks: The Showgirl Musical, musical play
(3) Kiss the Girl (for Disney's The Little Mermaid)
Life with Mikey, film score WA
(12) Little Shop of Horrors, musical
(2) Newsies, film score
One jump ahead
(2) Part of Your World (for Disney's The Little Mermaid)	1995
(9) Pocahontas, film score
Poor Unfortunate Souls (for Disney's The Little Mermaid) WA
Rockette
Santa Fe
Seize the day
So Close, song (from the animated film Enchanted) WA
Someday, song (from the animated film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame") WA
Take care of my heart
That's How You Know, song (from the animated film Enchanted) WA
(15) The Little Mermaid, film score
The Little Mermaid, musical WA
The Shaggy Dog, film score (2006)
True Love's Kiss, song (from the animated film Enchanted) WA
(4) Under the Sea (for Disney's The Little Mermaid) WA
We'll have tomorrow
You are the only one

Distinguished composer/lyricist Alan Menken is responsible for penning many of the catchiest tunes from Disney features of the late '80s through the mid-'90s, including such chart-toppers as "Whole New World" (from Aladdin) and "Colors of the Wind" (Pocahontas). Menken is a graduate of New York University and got his start when noted playwright Howard Ashman chose him and Lehman Engel to write the music for his 1978 adaptation of Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Menken and Ashmanhad major success as a team when they adapted Roger Corman's popular 1960 film Little Shop of Horrors into an off-Broadway smash that in 1986 became a major feature film. With Menken penning the tunes and Ashman writing the lyrics, the duo began working for Disney Studios on The Little Mermaid, the company's first major animated feature in years. For their catchy, calypso tune "Under the Sea," Menken and Ashman earned an Oscar. Menken has since earned seven more for his songwriting work. Following Ashman's death in 1991, Menken continued working for Disney with others, notably Stephen Schwartz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Music Guide