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Oliver And Company: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

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Catchy songs by great artists. Streets of Gold, Once upon A Time (In New York City, and Why Should I Worry are definetly the best. Perfect for dancing around the house or even spring cleaning!

Oliver and Company is one of the best cds. Especially in the kids opinion. When you put it on they sing and dance along. Its fun to listen to. I definitely think that "Why should I worry" is the best. But don't take my word for it, get your own and find out yourself!

I think it's one of the best Disney Soundtrack I have heard!"Once upon in New York City" "Streets of gold" and "Why should I worry?" are my favourite songs in this album!Especially "Once upon in Mew York City", it always give me courage! The rhythm of "Streets of gold" is perfect. And the French song (I can't remember what its name is...Heehee) is very good too, though I don't know any about French language. In all, this album is worth listening to!!!!

I think Oliver and Co. was the best full-length animated movie of the 80's and the songs are the reason why. If you love the movie as much as I do, you need the soundtrack.

The Songs in this movie are So catchy and as another reviewer said you cannot be sad when listening to this soundtrack and it's fun to play while cleaning the house or in the car while on errands i deduct one star for the score because it's typical Disney scoring but the songs are top notch and cheer even the rainiest of days and you don't get better artists Bette Midler Billy Joel Huey Lewis Ruth Pointer heck i'll even put the one star i was going to deduct back just because of the cute little Good Company Song I don't know who the little girl was they got to sing it but she has the most endearing voice http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000001M2X

When Disney was busy reinventing and rebuilding its animation department in the late 1980s, one of the ideas that the studio had was to cast big name musicians and actors as the lead voices in a major animated picture. It had been done before, but not quite on the same scale. Thus Billy Joel, Bette Midler, and Sheryl Lee Ralph found themselves in the same movie with Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan, Dom DeLuise, Robert Loggia, and a young Joey Lawrence. OLIVER & COMPANY was the first full animated Disney musical in over a decade. The film wasn't as successful as the company had hoped, but it brought enough business in to keep the animation department hopeful and became the pre-cursor of the 1990s Disney animation powerhouse that started with THE LITTLE MERMAID in 1989.

Like the movie itself, the soundtrack to OLIVER & COUNTRY is an album of hits and misses. It includes the first Disney song written by Howard Ahsman, "Once Upon a Time in New York City", sung by Huey Lewis, and the upbeat ditty that has become a Billy Joel standard, "Why Should I Worry." Bette Midler has a divine voice, but her songs on the album are nothing extraordinary and the instrumental pieces are basically run of the mill.

The album is worth owning for "Once Upon a Time in New York City" and "Why Should I Worry". It's also a good album for your collection if you're a huge Disney fan because of OLIVER & COMPANY's place in Disney history. It's the movie that was the interlude between financial recovery and smashing box office success.

This cd is great!!!! The music is catchy and funny, they have some great singers, you can't help but love it! My favorites where Once Upon a Time in New York City and Why Should I Worry. If I've said it once I'll say it again, this is the best! But don't take it from me, BUY THIS CD!(I should be a salesperson!)

Another Disney Soundtrack CD with some star names doing rare songs to draw a collector in. I'm not a fan of Disney music, but I had to have the song by Ruth Pointer being a major Pointer Sisters fan. STREETS OF GOLD is really a pretty good song . Same could be said for the Billy Joel song, and the Huey Lewis song isn't bad. But Bette Midler's is a sickeningly sappy piece of Broadway schtick where Bette lays on the sweetness so heavy it made me get my soundtrack to THE ROSE out as an antidote. It's such schmaltz that made me cringe listening to this awfully bad song. Bette even tries to approxmate sound effects during this song " produced " by Barry Manilow. Fittingly, it's followed by a song sung by a young girl, and at least she's of age for such sweet sappy songs. The fantasy world of Disney music isn't my cup of tea.

This cd blows, Its silly and kiddy, Plus they got Billy Joel here. Were is RUN-DMC or Neil Young. cuz that would have rocked