Pocahontas (soundtrack)

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Pocahontas: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released	May 30, 1995
Length	55:08
Label	Walt Disney Records
Producer	Alan Menken Stephen Schwartz
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Pocahontas: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Disney's 1995, thirty-third animated feature Pocahontas. It contains songs from the film written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, conducted by David Friedman, and performed by Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Jim Cummings and David Ogden Stiers among others, and singles by Jon Secada and Shanice, and Vanessa L. Williams, along with the film's score composed by Alan Menken. It was released on May 30, 1995 on CD and audio cassette.

The film's sountrack is probably best known for the track that serves as the film's anthem, "Colors of the Wind", which went on to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy Award. As a single, "Colors of the Wind" went on to reach #4 on the U.S. pop charts in 1995, and was one of Williams' biggest hits.

The soundtrack also won The Academy Award for Best Original Score, sold 2.3 million copies in the remaining two months of 1995 alone, and went on to reach #1 on the Billboard 200.^[1]

1 Track listing
2 Changes Between the Soundtrack and the Film
3 Charts
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Track listing

Side one

The Virginia Company - Chorus
Ship At Sea (Score)
The Virginia Company (Reprise) - Mel Gibson & Chorus
Steady As The Beating Drum (Main Title) - Chorus
Steady As The Beating Drum (Reprise) - Jim Cummings
Just Around The Riverbend - Judy Kuhn
Grandmother Willow (Score)
Listen With Your Heart I - Linda Hunt & Bobbi Page
Mine, Mine, Mine - David Ogden Stiers, Mel Gibson & Chorus
Listen With Your Heart II - Linda Hunt & Bobbi Page
Colors of the Wind - Judy Kuhn
Savages (Part 1) - David Ogden Stiers, Jim Cummings & Chorus
Savages (Part 2) - Judy Kuhn, David Ogden Stiers, Jim Cummings & Chorus
I'll Never See Him Again (Score)

Side two

Pocahontas (Instrumental)
Council Meeting (Score)
Percy's Bath (Score)
River's Edge (Score)
Skirmish (Score)
Getting Acquainted (Score)
Ratcliffe's Plan (Score)
Picking Corn (Score)
The Warriors Arrive (Score)
John Smith Sneaks Out (Score)
Execution (Score)
Farewell (Score)
Colors of the Wind (End Title) - Vanessa L. Williams
If I Never Knew You (End Title) - Jon Secada & Shanice

[edit] Changes Between the Soundtrack and the Film

Lyrical changes were made to the song "Savages" in the film, causing it to differ from the version on the soundtrack.
In the 10th Anniversary Edition DVD release of the film, "If I Never Knew You" is performed within the film's narrative by Judy Kuhn and Mel Gibson. Unlike Disney's re-releases of their soundtracks from Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King to include newly added songs, Disney chose not to re-release the soundtrack to Pocahontas to include this song and its reprise at the end of the film.

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1995	The Billboard 200	1

Singles

Year	Single	Artist	Chart	Position
1995	"Colors of the Wind"	Vanessa L. Williams	Billboard Hot 100	#4
1995	"Colors of the Wind"	Vanessa L. Williams	Hot R&B / Hip Hop Singles & Tracks	#53
1995	"Colors of the Wind"	Vanessa L. Williams	Australia Singles Chart	#16
1995	"Colors of the Wind"	Vanessa L. Williams	UK Singles Chart	#21
1995	"If I Never Knew You"	Jon Secada and Shanice	UK Singles Chart	#51

[edit] See also

Preceded by HIStory - Past, Present, and Future, Book I by Michael Jackson	Billboard 200 number-one album July 22 - July 28, 1995	Succeeded by Dreaming of You by Selena