Disney's Princess Sing-Along Album / Sing-Along

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Rarely has an album surfaced with this much raw ability to repel dads, pesky little brothers, and teens with reputations to protect. Then again, rarely will gift-giving grownups find a CD better suited to 3- to 8-year-old divas in the making. Princesses presents 10 melodramatic movie-derived favorites, from as far back as 1948's Cinderella to modern-day hits like Mulan, performed by a handful of lovely sounding if barely distinguishable studio artists; the singing along part is supposed to take place during an instrumental version of each track that directly follows the vocal rendering. Thus, packs of pretend Pocahontases, Belles, and Ariels secure the spotlight for karaoke-style belt-outs of "Colors of the Wind," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Part of Your World." A fit-for-a-princess purple and pink liner note leaflet unravels to present printed lyrics. --Tammy La Gorce

Disney's Princess Sing-Along Album / Sing-Along, Music, Sing-Along, Children's, Childrens, Pop
Disney's Princess Sing-Along Album
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great Instrumental CD!
  • Princess favorite songs
  • Original vocals??
  • I think it's good but not very.
  • Great music but a bit of false advertising
 Disney's Princess Sing-Along Album
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000088E7E
Release Date: 2003-02-04

Tracks:

  1. Reflection
  2. Reflection (Instrumental)
  3. Part Of Your World
  4. Part Of Your World (Instrumental)
  5. Just Around The Riverbend
  6. Just Around The Riverbend (Instrumental)
  7. Colors Of The Wind
  8. Colors Of The Wind (Instrumental)
  9. Beauty And The Beast
  10. Beauty And The Beast (Instrumental)
  11. A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
  12. A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (Instrumental)
  13. Once Upon A Dream
  14. Once Upon A Dream (Instrumental)
  15. So This Is Love
  16. So This Is Love (Instrumental)
  17. Candle On The Water
  18. Candle On The Water (Instrumental)
  19. I Won't Say (I'm In love)
  20. I Won't Say (I'm In love) (Instrumental)

Amazon.com

Rarely has an album surfaced with this much raw ability to repel dads, pesky little brothers, and teens with reputations to protect. Then again, rarely will gift-giving grownups find a CD better suited to 3- to 8-year-old divas in the making. Princesses presents 10 melodramatic movie-derived favorites, from as far back as 1948's Cinderella to modern-day hits like Mulan, performed by a handful of lovely sounding if barely distinguishable studio artists; the singing along part is supposed to take place during an instrumental version of each track that directly follows the vocal rendering. Thus, packs of pretend Pocahontases, Belles, and Ariels secure the spotlight for karaoke-style belt-outs of "Colors of the Wind," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Part of Your World." A fit-for-a-princess purple and pink liner note leaflet unravels to present printed lyrics. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Instrumental CD!.......2007-03-30

Before I start reviewing this album, I want to clarify a few things:
1) This is NOT a karaoke CD. It will NOT work in your karaoke machine. This CD is only for singing-along with, as the the title of it says. It doesn't claim to be anything else
2) The original singers do NOT sing in the songs. Take a look at the $8 price tag. A CD with the actual singers will cost more, don't buy this CD as a cheap way to just own these songs without buying a more expensive CD, because you won't get what you're looking for.
3) No, this CD doesn't have an exhaustive list of Princess songs. There are 20 tracks, 10 with vocals, 10 without. So that means that some beloved songs aren't on this album. If someone is looking for a complete princess instrumental collection, I would suggest buying more than just one karaoke CD.
That being said, I really enjoy this CD. I know of at least two other Princess instrumental CDs out there, and this one is my favorite. This CD has more tracks than the others and less filler tracks. This collection does include Candle on the Water from Pete's Dragon for whatever reason, but the other songs are exactly something I'd expect from a Disney Princess CD. In my opinion, all these particular 10 tracks were chosen to be on the CD as to be the easiest to sing solo to. So some memorable Disney Prince & Princess duets aren't on here, but those kinds of songs aren't easy to sing along with anyway.
As other reviewers have pointed out, this CD doesn't retain the original vocals. The singers who do sing the songs (Leslie French, Robin Huston, Amy Baker Stinson, Chris Martin, Meredith Robertson, Meredith McCall, Joe York, Rebecca Schoolar, & Laura Benedict - whoever they are) don't sound terrible, but they certainly won't ever replace the original singers. These vocals tracks are just on the CD so you'll know how the song is supposed to sound. The real purpose of this album is the instrumental tracks, but if that's not what you want, then maybe you should reconsider buying this CD. Most karaoke CDs do not use the original voices if they do have vocal tracks, so that's something to keep in mind when looking at these kind of CDs.
I gave this CD a 5 because it's good for what it is. If you want a CD that can be used on a karaoke machine, find another one. If you want a CD because you want the original princess vocals, find another one. If you want a sing-along CD that contains instrumental tracks that retain their original arrangement, then buy this CD and skip over some of the others out there.

4 out of 5 stars Princess favorite songs.......2007-01-10

The track list has all the favorites of the Princess songs. First the songs are sung, then the music-like in karaoke as you read the words on cd cover-alone plays next for your "little singer" to sing along.
The only drawback is that the "original singers" from the movies or sing along dvds are not singing in this album, or, at least most of them.

1 out of 5 stars Original vocals??.......2005-11-14

As a big Disney Princess fan, I'm rather upset that for this CD, the vocal versions of the tracks are NOT performed by the original voice actresses who played each Princess. It's almost like buying a karaoke CD with tracks of people singing along to the karaoke provided! Either include the original vocals for the song, or don't include them at all, Disney.

4 out of 5 stars I think it's good but not very........2005-04-30

There are 10 Princess songs and instrument in this album.I felt that the instrument is perfect, Sometimes I can do some sing-along, and I love singing. I don't like the vocals in this album, Because I love the original Princesses' vocals.I think that I bought it only because it's Disney's.

4 out of 5 stars Great music but a bit of false advertising.......2004-08-30

I bought this for my newly minted princess groupie without having a knowledge of all of the movies. I mistakenly believed from the title and the picture on the CD that ALL of the music was from Disney princess movies. Of 10 tracks, only 8 are from Disney princesses (only 5 if you don't count Mulan and Pocahontas as princesses as I'm told Disney doesn't always count them.) GREAT SONGS and my daughter LOVES them but I would have preferred that it included a song from Snow White and Jasmine who are pictured on the cover rather than a song from Hercules and a song from Pete's Dragon. (I feel like a victim of false avertising.)
Disney's Princess Christmas Album
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Princess Franchise Hits Another Low
  • Fun and sweet holiday CD
  • A happy Christmas celebration before Christmas with Disney Princess!
  • Cute
 Disney's Princess Christmas Album
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ASIN: B000B8I8T6
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

  1. Christmas Is Coming!
  2. Holly Jolly Christmas
  3. I'm Giving Love for Christmas
  4. Christmas in the Ocean
  5. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
  6. Silver and Gold
  7. Holidays at Home
  8. Holly and the Joy
  9. Christmas Waltz
  10. Ariel's Christmas Island - Wayne Brady, Jim Brickman
  11. Christmas with My Prince
  12. Night Before Christmas
  13. Twelve Days of Christmas
  14. Beautiful [*][Version]

Album Description

In celebration of the holidays, here's a compilation of Disney Princess holiday songs featuring all-new songs, traditional holiday music and lyrics!

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Princess Franchise Hits Another Low.......2006-11-22

I consider myself a pretty hardcore Disney fan. As an adult with no children I usually buy this sort of thing for myself and I enjoy it tremendously.

I'll be honest here, while I do purchase almost all of the music I own, I will sample music via "shared" MP3s online from time to time. Especially with Disney now a days, the Princess franchise hits all kinds of highs and lows. There is no guarantee anymore that Disney automatically equals quality. I found a webpage online that enabled me to sample the first 8 tracks of this album in their entirety. I dodged a bullet here. Obviously some of the original princess voices actors are no longer living, and that's not to beheld against this album. In past sequel films they've made some decent replacement choices. However I didn't think they did a good job here.


Snow White's singing is horribly grating and Cinderella's isn't much better. In many songs they try and include all the background characters, like the 7 dwarfs and Cinderella's mice but they aren't the original voices either. I don't see why they chose to put in sub-par replacements of secondary characters when they didn't really have to. You might not notice Snow White isn't the original, and that won't detract from the album, but you're going to notice the 7 dwarfs are way off the mark once they join in. Etc. This album would have been MUCH better if they had just gone with a more classical one character approach, rather then try and cram handfuls of what is unnecessary poor voice work into each song.



They couldn't even get some of the living princess voice actors to sign on which I feel says something about the product. Paige O'Hara, who was the voice of Belle in the original Disney film, is ~not~ on this album. She was replaced by Susan Egan who played the original Belle on Broadway. Egan does have an excellent voice and makes an excellent Belle anyway, but she is not the original. (Coincidentally Susan Egan was the voice of "Meg" in Disney's original animated film Hercules and it may further confuse the kiddies about which princess is actually singing in my opinion)



A few tracks with Broadway's "Belle" and "Pocahontas" are really quite good by themselves, but I'm not willing to pay $10 for ~a few tracks~. From my point of view not many adult Disney fans will find this up to par, and not many parents are going to want to be subjected to Snow White's voice via the listening habits of a toddler who might think this is just great and listen to it over and over.



As far as the celebrities....I seriously doubt a toddler knows or cares who Wayne Brady & Jim Brick man are.



I think you're better off mixing Disney movies and old Christmas favorites like The Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer, or the Grins soundtrack if you're in a Disney/Christmas mood. Or hey, ...break out Mickey's Christmas carol. If you're hell bent on dipping into the Princess franchise pick up one of those "Greatest Hits" Cds Disney has which has a mix of all the popular princess songs from the original films. If you're feeling really frisky many of the voice actors of the contemporary princesses have made their own non-Disney solo albums covering all sorts of kid friendly songs.

5 out of 5 stars Fun and sweet holiday CD.......2005-11-09

We just got our copy of this yesterday, and I bet we have already played it 20 times at least! We bought it for our 2 year old daughter, who is obsessed with the princesses, but we have all five enjoyed this cd. The songs are all good, and a good mix of older songs and newer, princess songs.
Our little girl has been thrilled with this album, and since this is the first Christmas she has really been old enough to notice music, I am so glad we bought this. Our other two children, ages 10 and 5, also enjoy it.
My favorite selection from the cd is Silver and Gold, but they are all good. Ariel's Christmas Island is cute, and since we are used to hearing this on Jimmy Buffet's Christmas Island cd, it was fun to hear Ariel sing it.
If your little girl enjoys the princesses, this will be great to add to your collection.

5 out of 5 stars A happy Christmas celebration before Christmas with Disney Princess!.......2005-11-03

I bought this album and listened to it just a day or two ago, a long time before Christmas of course. I was so happy and excited, because Christmas is a very important festival to me, and one of my favourites. This album with lyrics such as snow, mistletoe and trees and so on made me felt as if Christmas is coming!
There were many traditional and new songs for Christmas. It made me associate this album with the soundtrack of "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas". One of the reasons why I love this album so much is that it featured many my favourite vocals, such as Jodi Benson's, Paige O'Hara's and Lea Salonga's. Jodi Benson's voice will always be the most beautiful in my opinion.
I think the best song in this album was "Christmas is coming". I love songs which all the princesses sang together, just like "If you can dream". This song made me felt a little cold, but I could feel the happiness Christmas brings. I felt it as if I see the princesses were giving presents to each other to make the world filled with happiness, warmth and magic. One of the traditional songs named "Twelve days of Christmas" was sung by all the princesses too. The princesses sang their own stories in this song, with new lyrics of course. "Christmas in the Ocean" of Ariel was very funny, because this song was featured with Sebastian. This song made me dream of a Christmas which is not so cold, just like Ariel's! I was surprise and felt a little strange that Mulan sang a song named "The holly and the ivy" in this album. There is no holidays during Christmas in China, maybe it's because that there is only a few Christians in China, although I'm a Chinese Christian. But this song was still good!
Generally speaking, I love this album very much, and it fits for young and old who love Christmas and Disney Princess.

4 out of 5 stars Cute.......2005-11-03

There are a few Christmas songs on this CD that are traditional, but are given a Disney twist. Most are original. They're not bad, and any princess fan would enjoy this. The songs are sung by the original voices, of Ariel, Belle, and Jasmine, and they have new voices for Cinderella, Snow White, and Aurora, for obvious reasons. Snow White is actually better, the other two are up to par.
Disney's Princess Sing-Along Album
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Disney's Princess Sing-Along Album
    Disney
    Manufacturer: Disney
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000088E7J
    Release Date: 2003-02-04

    Tracks:

    1. Reflection [From Mulan] - Leslie French
    2. Reflection [From Mulan][Instrumental] - Leslie French
    3. Part of Your World [From the Little Mermaid] - Robin Huston
    4. Part of Your World [From the Little Mermaid][Instrumental] - Robin Huston
    5. Just Around the Riverbend [From Pocahontas] - Amy Baker Stinson
    6. Just Around the Riverbend [From Pocahontas][Instrumental] - Amy Baker Stinson
    7. Colors of the Wind [From Pocahontas] - Amy Baker Stinson
    8. Colors of the Wind [From Pocahontas][Instrumental] - Amy Baker Stinson
    9. Beauty and the Beast [From Beauty and the Beast] - Disney
    10. Beauty and the Beast [From Beauty and the Beast][Instrumental] - Disney
    11. Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes [From Cinderella] - Meredith Robertson
    12. Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes [From Cinderella][Instrumental] - Meredith Robertson
    13. Once Upon a Dream [From Sleeping Beauty] - Leslie French, Joe York
    14. Once Upon a Dream [From Sleeping Beauty][Instrumental] - Leslie French, Joe York
    15. So This Is Love [From Cinderella] - Joe York
    16. So This Is Love [From Cinderella][Instrumental] - Joe York
    17. Candle on the Water [From Pete's Dragon] - Robin Huston
    18. Candle on the Water [From Pete's Dragon][Instrumental] - Robin Huston
    19. I Won't Say (I'm in Love) [From Hercules] - Laura Benedict, Alicia Jones
    20. I Won't Say (I'm in Love) [From Hercules][Instrumental] - Laura Benedict, Alicia Jones
    Disney Princess Party Music Album
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Disney Princess Party Music Album
      Disney
      Manufacturer: Avex Trax
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0009VEC0Y
      Release Date: 2005-08-15

      Tracks:

      1. Perfect Princess Tea
      2. Every Girl Can Be A Princess
      3. I Just Love Getting Dressed For Tea
      4. So Very Glad You`Re Here
      5. Manners & Etiquette
      6. Way To Bake (A Delicious Cake)
      7. Musical Chairs
      8. Cups & Saucers
      9. Princess Dance
      10. Waiting For My Prince
      11. Happy Birthday. Princess!
      12. These Moments We Share
      13. If You Can Dream
      14. Some Day My Prince Will Come [Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs]
      15. Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes [Cinderella]
      16. Once Upon A Dream [Sleeping Beauty]
      17. Part Of Your World [The Little Mermaid]
      18. Beauty & The Beast [Beauty & The Beast
      19. Whole New World [Aladdin]
      20. Some Day My Prince Will Come [Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs]
      21. Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes [Cinderella]
      22. Once Upon A Dream [Sleeping Beauty]
      23. Part Of Your World [The Little Mermaid]
      24. Beauty & The Beast [Beauty & The Beast]
      25. Whole New World [Aladdin]
      26. Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes [Cinderella]
      27. Once Upon A Dream [Sleeping Beauty]
      28. Part Of Your World [The Little Mermaid]
      29. Beauty & The Beast [Beauty & The Beast]
      30. Whole New World [Aladdin]
      Disney's Princess Christmas Album
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Disney's Princess Christmas Album
        Disney
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000BMPQRO
        Release Date: 2005-11-01

        Tracks:

        1. Christmas Is Coming!
        2. Holly Jolly Christmas
        3. I'm Giving Love for Christmas
        4. Christmas in the Ocean
        5. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
        6. Silver and Gold
        7. Holidays at Home
        8. Holly and the Joy
        9. Christmas Waltz
        10. Ariel's Christmas Island - Wayne Brady, Jim Brickman
        11. Christmas with My Prince
        12. Night Before Christmas
        13. Twelve Days of Christmas
        14. Beautiful [*][Version]

        Album Description

        Christmas will be magical with this collection of brand new classic Christmas songs sung by the Disney princesses. 13 tracks. Walt Disney Records. 2005.

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        1. Dragon Tales: More Dragon Tunes [Soundtrack]
        2. Dragon Tales [Soundtrack]
        3. Early Childhood Classics - Old Favorites With A New Twist
        4. Family Tree
        5. Favorite Nursery Rhymes
        6. Floricienta [Import]
        7. Gift Of The Tortoise: A Musical Journey Through Southern Africa
        8. Guitar Lullaby
        9. Happy Lemons
        10. Hot Hot Hot Dance Songs

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