Mark Pentleton

Time for a bit more Disney. Can you feel the love tonight was written by Elton John with lyrics by Tim Rice and featured in the 1994 Disney movie The Lion King. It was performed in the movie by various characters, and the Elton John recording was played over the end credits.
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It makes a change to be posting this in the middle of the day rather than at a few minutes to midnight! We’ve been doing some work in the house and I’ve set up my piano again in a slightly different way, so the sound may be a bit different in today’s recording. Anyway, today’s [...]

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Today’s song is from the 1992 Disney film Aladdin and was written by Tim Rice (lyrics) and Alan Menken (music). The less said about Peter André and Jordan’s version the better…!
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Sorry this is late – not just late in the day, but a day late! For the first time this year I completely forgot about publishing my song! Over the past week I’ve been working in France and the daily songs were preloaded and publishing automatically, so my song for Sunday completely slipped my mind. [...]

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Yesterday I asked my son Ewan what song I should play today and he immediately suggested You’ve got a friend in me. He’s just seen Toy Story 3 with his brother and mum (I’ve not seen it yet, but look forward to seeing it some time soon!) so this seemed like a good song to [...]

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Today’s song comes from the 1994 Disney film The Lion King. The opening sequence begins with a Zulu cry: Nants ingonyama bathiki Baba – “here comes a lion, father” and in the film version Carmen Twillie sings the song accompanied by an underscoring of Zulu and Swahili lyrics featuring Lebo M.
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I actually recorded this song first thing this morning but I’ve had a really busy day so it’s only now that I’ve managed to get it uploaded and posted to the site. It’s from the Disney film Pocahontas and was written by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken. It also won an Oscar for Best Song [...]

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I could be accused of going from the sublime Mascagni yesterday to the ridiculous Disney’s Little Mermaid today, but I’ve opted for Part of your world, not Under the sea! I always remember that this was a favourite song of Kara (my Coffee Break Spanish ‘pupil’). Kara’s studying in Dijon at the moment, so I [...]

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Song 120 is the title song from the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. Written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, it won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1992. We’re four months into the project now. I’d be interested to know if you have any favourites so far? Let me know in the [...]

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