First of all, congrats to Beauty and the Beast, which took down the first #1 seed in a victory by only 3 votes!

However, our other matchup from yesterday is STILL TIED. Vote now if you haven't voted. Voting for that matchup ends at 1pm.

https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=33017152

Today's matchups:

Tomorrowland Region

1 Circle of Life vs 5 Be Our Guest
2 Part of Your World vs 6 When You Wish Upon a Star

Circle of Life - Composed by English musician Elton John, with lyrics by Tim Rice for the 1994 film The Lion King. The song was performed by Carmen Twillie (the deep female lead vocals) and Lebo M (opening vocals in Zulu). It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1994, along with two other songs from The Lion King. The soundtrack shipped over 10 million copies in the U.S. and eventually went 10× platinum in 1995, thus becoming the biggest-selling soundtrack ever from Disney's 1994 animated feature film. Its certification was promoted to Diamond when the award was instituted in 1999.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQoLC3iDj4&feature=shared

Be Our Guest - Written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Beauty and the Beast (1991). Recorded by American actor Jerry Orbach and English actress Angela Lansbury as Lumière and Mrs. Potts. The song had originally been intended for Belle's father Maurice. However, "Be Our Guest" had to be entirely re-written as the story evolved in order to return its focus to Belle.

The song has garnered universal acclaim from both film and music critics who, in addition to dubbing the song a show-stopper, praised its catchiness and Orbach's vocal performance while applauding the scene's unprecedented use of computer-generated imagery. "Be Our Guest" has since been extolled as one of Disney's most celebrated and popular songs, establishing itself as one of the studio's greatest and most iconic.

Originally, Beauty and the Beast, under the direction of Richard Purdum, was not intended to be a musical. Then-studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to turn the film into a Broadway-style musical similar to The Little Mermaid, Disney's previous animated film, after he, displeased with the film's initial story reel, ordered the film scrapped and restarted from scratch. As a result, Purdum resigned, and first-time feature film directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale replaced him.

Katzenberg asked The Little Mermaid songwriting duo of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken to write the songs for and score Beauty and the Beast. At first Ashman, who was at the time writing songs with Menken for a recently pitched idea for another Disney film called Aladdin, was reluctant to join the struggling film project, but eventually agreed.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=npJa14mxCVY&feature=shared