Download LITTLE MERMAID Soundtrack

The Little Mermaid soundtrack was as successful as the animated film it accompanied, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in 1989.
The Little Mermaid film was Disney’s 28th animated feature and is generally credited with breathing life back into a genre that had taken a beating in the early 1980s. So successful was it, that The Little Mermaid story was brought to the Broadway stage by Disney in 2007.

The Little Mermaid film follows the story of a sixteen-year-old mermaid named Ariel, who is dissatisfied with life under the sea and curious about the human world. A magic spell turns her into a human, and she meets a handsome young man named Eric and falls in love. Once the spell is broken, Ariel must return to being a mermaid, but in the end she gets to remain a human and be with Eric.

Before Disney turned its sights on the Broadway musical, the best music was written for Disney animated features. The Little Mermaid soundtrack, written by the highly talented duo of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken includes a heaping serving of joyful, uplifting music, headed by the calypso flavored, “Under the Sea” and gruesomely hilarious “Les Poissons”.