![]() ![]() ![]() Lansbury, Dion, and Bryson all performed the song live on stage during the 64th Academy Awards.Both American pop group Jump5 and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks has recorded pop renditions of the song for the film’s platinum and diamond edition re-releases respectively.Both Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson have included the song on some of their respective greatest hit and compilation albums. ![]() Ultimately, she successfully recorded it in one take, which ended up in the film. She questioned the songwriters’ choice in her, asking them, “Are you sure you want me to do this?” She also felt that her voice wasn’t in suitable condition to record “Beauty and the Beast,” feeling insecure about having to sustain its several “long, extended notes.” Ashman and Menken simply advised her “to sing it the way envisioned it”. Although she liked it, she felt incapable of recording it because of the unfamiliar style in which it was written. Angela Lansbury told the Huffington Post that Alan Menken and Howard Ashman had originally written the song in the style of a rock ballad.It is one of only seven songs from Disney that made the cut. The song is ranked #62 on the list of AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Songs.It later went on to win two Grammy Awards in 1993, for the Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, and the Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It won the 1992 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.The song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1992, marking Menken and Ashman’s (posthumously) second win after the 1989 award for “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid.Every single line of the song has five syllables.Belle and the Beast are dancing in the ballroom. Beauty and the Beast – Tale As Old As Time. ![]()
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