The Best and Emotional Disney Songs

[Edthehyena]

I keep listening to that clip of "Do U Want To Build a Snowman" from Frozen, now available, and that is really a surprise to me : so poetic, magic, musical, intimate, charming, intoxicating, spellbounding and moving to tears. A perfect and tender little gem. I can swear it's gonna make us all cry.
It takes me back to " your mother and mine, love is a song, feed the birds, the journey (rescuers), the second star to the right, you'll be in my heart, healing incantation", anyway, all th most moving Disney anthems… A dramatic lullaby about love torn apart, loss of childhood and mourning… Never fell in love so deeply and quickly for a disney song for ages…

[tweeb²]

Good Topic !
Songs that could make me cry...
- When Will My Life Begin part II ( the movie version when she leaves the tower. That song is THE Disney essence in the middle of a boring score)
- Healing Incantation ( Tangled again ! That song is so magic and bitter sweet ! A Menken discrete miracle...)

I love to hear that someone thinks the same as I thought when I first saw Tangled, it had so so music with some bits of the old disney music, specially in Healing Incantation, that gave me chills of joy, so much emotion in that one!

[Edthehyena]

Give me five tweeb !!!! And be sure to taste that same miraculous sweet flavor in " Do U want to build a Snowman..."

PS : Just realized i forgot to add one gem in that collection, a true masterpiece of the heart : The Journey ( from the rescuers)

[Atlantica]

It isn't my favourite song in the Disney canon, but 'Someone's Waiting For You' from The Rescuers is just heartbreaking. . .

Make a wish for each sad little tear,
Hold your head up, though no one is near..

Honestly, it is just so sad !

My ultimate 'emotion-provoker' has to be 'Part Of Your World (Reprise). So full of longing and love in the beginning, then ending with the reassurance that she knows she will make her way to him somehow, someway.

And special mention to 'Stories' from the Enchanted Christmas; beautiful song in an oft-overlooked film. Doesn't make me well up per se, but it just tap into something when I hear it.

[Prince Edward]

Many of my favorite Disney songs are in this medley (A Whole New World, Beauty and the Beast, Colors of the Wind):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDEFuG30FYg

Just add Once Upon a Dream, Part Of Your World, If I Never Knew You, Someday/God Help the Outcasts, Go the Distance and Reflection, and it would have been the perfect medley^^ (Yeah, Alan Menken is indeed my favorite composer;)

[MeerkatKombat]

Reflection (Mulan) - I think we have all felt like this once. I feel this more often than I care to think about
Someday My Prince Will Come (Snow White) - As a little girl, this is what I wanted. And although I didn't end up with a real-life prince, he is mine.
If I Never Knew You (Pocahontas) - the only song I have ever appreciated Disney adding to a film. Beautiful.
Love (Robin Hood) - very sweet and I think it captures the feeling of a young love growing up together very well.
The Journey (The Rescuers) - Same as Reflection. Sometimes I feel like this. I also love how it builds.
When Somebody Loved Me (Toy Story 2) - Incredible.
So This Is Love (Cinderella) I want this as my first wedding dance. This or Love.
Once upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty)- Another fantastic love song
God help the Outcasts (HoND)
When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio) My childhood in a nutshell. Every Disney video introduction, every trip to Disneyland.
Almost There (reprise) (PatF) That feeling of losing something you really wanted...

There are other songs that I think are very well written and capture the feelings well like Go the Distance and Out There. As you can tell, I think a lot of the songs that speak to me now are the romantic ones as they relate best to me at this moment in time (Soppy I know).
There are some score pieces that also really get me like Farewell from Pocahontas, Love's First Kiss from Snow White and Transformation from Beauty and the Beast. Same with Married Life and Stuff We Did from Up. These tear me up.

I could go on all day.

[Angeldude98]

I also think "Healing Incantation" from Tangled has a special magic to it.
"True Love's Kiss" from Enchanted is also a great and emotional song!

[Angeldude98]

Wow! There's a thread here called "Worst Disney Songs" that has 8 pages! How come so many people are willing to respond to talk about what they don't like and so few respond to talk about what they do like? I don't get it! Can we top that with your choices for the best Disney songs?

[Disney's Divinity]

For positivity's sake... I thought about ranking songs from Cinderella (Whitney Houston, Bernadette Peters version) and The Nightmare Before Christmas as well, but I thought it best to leave them out. Sorry for being so focused on Disney's later soundtracks, but the Sherman Bros. isn't music I listen to much. "Winnie the Pooh" and "Cruella de Vil," for instance--great melodies that you can hum all the time, but I just never listen to them outside the films.

1. “Poor Unfortunate Souls” from The Little Mermaid (both the original and the extended deleted version)
2. “Part of That World” from The Little Mermaid
3. “I’m Wishing/One Song” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. “Sing, Sweet Nightingale” from Cinderella
5. “All Good Things Must End (Deleted Song)” from The Little Mermaid Musical
6. “Just Around the Riverbend” from Pocahontas
7. “Part of Your World (Reprise)” from The Little Mermaid
8. “Let It Go” from Frozen
9. “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted
10. “I Won’t Say (I’m in Love)” from Hercules
11. “Beauty and the Beast” from Beauty and the Beast
12. “Son of Man” from Tarzan
13. “Heaven’s Light/Hellfire” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
14. “Baby Mine (Alison Krauss)” from Dumbo
15. “Prince Ali” from Aladdin
16. “I’m Still Here” from Treasure Planet
17. “Zero to Hero” from Hercules
18. “Human Again” from Beauty and the Beast
19. “Goodbye, So Soon” from The Great Mouse Detective
20. “Prince Ali (Reprise)” from Aladdin
21. “Reflection (Christina Aguilera)” from Mulan
22. “Belle” from Beauty and the Beast
21. “A Whole New World” from Aladdin
22. “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast
23. “One Jump Ahead (Reprise)” from Aladdin
24. “A Step in the Right Direction” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks
25. “Snuff Out the Light (Deleted Song)” from The Emperor's New Groove
26. “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid
27. “Anything Can Happen” from Mary Poppins Musical
28. “Someday My Prince Will Come (Barbra Streisand)” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
29. “Beauty and the Beast (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson)” from Beauty and the Beast
30. “Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)” from Mary Poppins Musical
31. “Baby Mine” from Dumbo
32. “Simple and Clean (Ending)” from Kingdom Hearts
33. “For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)” from Frozen
34. “Fathoms Below (Extended Deleted Version)” from The Little Mermaid
35. “Savages” from Pocahontas
36. “Belle (Reprise)” from Beauty and the Beast
37. “The Dress That My Mother Wore (Deleted Song)” from Cinderella
38. “Do You Want to Build a Snow Man?” from Frozen
39. “Humiliate the Boy (Deleted Song)” from Aladdin
40. “If I Never Knew You (End Title Version)” from Pocahontas
41. “Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog
42. “Out There” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
43. “Sister Suffragette” from Mary Poppins
44. “The Madness of King Scar” from The Lion King Musical
45. “Practically Perfect” ~ Mary Poppins Musical
46. “Substitutiary Locomotion” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks
47. “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas
48. “For the First Time in Forever” from Frozen
49. “Reflection” (Lea Salonga) from Mulan
50. “That’s What Makes the World Go Round” from The Sword in the Stone
51. “I’m Wishing” from On the Record
52. "Everything That I Am" from Tarzan Musical
53. “The Mob Song” from Beauty and the Beast
54. “Part of That World (Chely Wright)” from The Little Mermaid
55. “My Own Home” from The Jungle Book
56. “Where Do I Go From Here?” from Pocahontas: Journey to a New World
57. “Honor to Us All” from Mulan
58. “Wherever the Trail May Lead” from Home On the Range
59. “Perfect Is Me” from Oliver & Company
60. “Something There“ from Beauty and the Beast
61. “Endless Night” from The Lion King Musical
62. “A Spoonful of Sugar” from Mary Poppins
63. “Why Me? (Deleted Song)” from Aladdin
64. “The Bells of Notre Dame” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
65. “Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog
66. “I’ll Try” from Return to Neverland
67. “I’ve Got No Strings” from Pinocchio
68. “In Harmony” from The Little Mermaid Series
69. “Stories” from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
70. “Why Should I Worry?” from Oliver & Company
71. “Gaston” from Beauty and the Beast
72. “Brimstone and Treacle II” from Mary Poppins Musical
73. “Poor Unfortunate Souls (Reprise-Deleted Song)” from The Little Mermaid
74. “Go the Distance” from Hercules
75. “Portobello Road” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks
76. “Different” from Tarzan Muscial
77. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from Mary Poppins Musical
78. “Shadowland” from The Lion King Musical
79. “Les Poissons” from The Little Mermaid
80. “Riddle Diddle (Deleted Song)” from Sleeping Beauty
81. “One of Us” from The Lion King: Simba's Pride
82. “Keep ‘Em Guessing (Deleted Song)" from Mulan
83. “Mother Knows Best” from Tangled
84. “Wasting Away (Deleted Song)” from The Little Mermaid Musical
85. “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo” from Cinderella
86. “God Help the Outcasts” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
87. "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan
88. “Never Knew I Needed” from The Princess and the Frog
89. “Little Patch of Heaven” from Home On the Range
90. “In a World of My Own” from Alice in Wonderland
91. “Cruella de Vil” from One Hundred and One Dalmatians
92. “He Lives in You” from The Lion King: Simba's Pride
93. “You’re Only Second Rate” from The Return of Jafar
94. “Look Through My Eyes” from Brother Bear
95. “We Are One” from The Lion King: Simba's Pride
96. “Forget About Love” from The Return of Jafar
97. “Will the Sun Ever Shine Again?” from Home On the Range
98. “Someday (Donna Summer)” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
99. “Love Is An Open Door” from Frozen
100. “One Jump Ahead” from Aladdin
101. “Her Voice” from The Little Mermaid Musical
102. “When You Wish Upon a Star (Bryan White)” from Pinocchio
103. “Friends On the Other Side” from The Princess and the Frog
104. “Out of Thin Air” from Aladdin and the King of Thieves
105. “Mother Knows Best (Reprise)” from Tangled
106. “The Beautiful Briny” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks
107. "Little Wonders" from Meet the Robinsons
108. "Hi Diddle Dee Dee" from Pinocchio
109. "Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
110. "All in the Golden Afternoon" from Alice in Wonderland
111. "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" from The Little Mermaid Musical
112. "Be Prepared" from The Lion King
113. "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin
114. "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid Musical
115. "I See the Light" from Tangled

I almost ranked a couple High School Musical songs (“Fabulous,” “I Don’t Dance,” “Bet On It,” “Scream,” “High School Musical” and “Now or Never”) but then felt bad about myself.

[Musical Master]

Since that Saving Mr. Banks has come out and I have seen it, Feed the Birds and Let's Go Fly a Kite have a more deeper meaning than I originally thought. Especially the last scene where Travers is in tears during Mr. Banks walk in London alone.

[blackcauldron85]

Since that Saving Mr. Banks has come out and I have seen it, Feed the Birds and Let's Go Fly a Kite have a more deeper meaning than I originally thought. Especially the last scene where Travers is in tears during Mr. Banks walk in London alone.

I feel the same way!

And I'm so glad people hold songs from some of the more underrated movies close to their hearts, too! In my list, I'm judging the songs more on their own merit than the accompanying animation (for example, "Baby Mine" makes me bawl like a baby every time, but on its own, I can't relate to it as much as other songs).

The songs that I always can relate to are:
The Age of Not Believing
Belle (Reprise)
God Help the Outcasts
Go the Distance
Reflection
I'll Try
I'm Still Here (from Treasure Planet)
No Way Out (from Brother Bear)
Here I Am (from Camp Rock)
Santa Fe
The World Will Know (from Newsies on Broadway)
Scream (from High School Musical 3)
When Will My Life Begin
Let It Go

Songs that just break my heart:
Feed the Birds
The Journey
Someone's Waiting For You
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Once Upon a Time in New York City (and my dog's name is Oliver, so it gets me even more since I've had him!)
One Jump Ahead (Reprise)
When Somebody Loved Me

Other songs that just get to me, whether I can kind of relate to them or they're just inspirational and/or melancholy:
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Candle on the Water
It's Not Easy
Bop Bop Bopbop Bop (I Love You, Too)
There's Room for Everyone
A Whole New World
Out There
Someday
Look Through My Eyes
Great Spirits
Welcome
Will the Sun Ever Shine Again
Wherever the Trail May Lead
So Close (from Enchanted)
Ever Ever After
I Thought I Lost You (from Bolt)
Ma Belle Evangeline
Rainbow Connection (from The Muppets, but a Muppets song before then)
I See the Light
Watch What Happens (Newsies on Broadway)
Seize the Day (")
Something to Believe In (")
Once and For All (")
For the First Time in Forever

[thedisneyspirit]

Candle on the Water is another one that makes me cry so much. It's so soft and melancholic, kinda sad that it's the most memorable part of Pete's Dragon.

Feed the Birds. The chorus reprise is chilling. I hope Saving Mr Banks doesn't treat the Mary Poppins film like trash because it's "uncovering" new truths. The disney feminists on tumblr are already crapping on both films for destroying "precious" PL Travers and her work.

Love is a Song- the ending of Bambi always tears me up. It's probably my favorite of the Walt Era movies.

The Journey/Who will Rescue Me and Someone's Waiting for You- the Rescuers on a whole have very emotional and sentimental music. Even the sequel has a few orchestrations here and there that sound a bit sad/emotional.

Do you wanna build a snowman- Only for the ending part really, and only if Anna's voice actress delivers the right amount of emotion. I've heard some of the spanish and italian Annas that are so wooden at this part of the song...

Goodbye may seem forever- of course The Fox and the Hound might be the most depressing film of the entire canon. I kinda wish Disney would do another film like this in the future, something with a bittersweet ending.

And though not musical, the ending of the original Winnie the Pooh is quite sad as well. There are parts of the Jungle Book that are sad mostly because of its context, the fact that Walt didn't live to see this film finish...