Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)

Name: Under the Sea
Duration: 3 min 14 s

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#	Title	Length	Track Artist	Release Title	Release Artist	Release Group Type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
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1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US1989-10-13	Walt Disney Records
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US1989-10-13	Walt Disney Records	CD-018
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack, BMG music club release)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US1989	Walt Disney Records, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)	60841‐2, CD‐018, D190113
1.1	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Disney Collection, Volume 1	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1991-07	Walt Disney Records	60816-2
1.1	Under the Sea	3:16	Alan Menken	The Disney Collection, Volume 1 (Best Loved Songs)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AU1991	Walt Disney Records	60816
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	GB1991	Pickwick Music (UK imprint, subsidiary of Pickwick International Inc. (GB) Ltd.)	DSTCD 451
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US1992-06-25	Walt Disney Records	60841‐2
2.17	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1992	Walt Disney Records	60957-2
1.21	Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	The Very Best of Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB1993-11-08	Pickwick Records (UK imprint, subsidiary of Pickwick International Inc. (GB) Ltd.)	DISCD 471
1.13	Under the Sea (final)	3:15	Alan Menken	The Music Behind the Magic	Alan Menken	Album + Compilation	US1994-11-22	Walt Disney Records	60014-2
1.4	Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Classic Disney, Volume I: 60 Years of Musical Magic	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995-03-28	Walt Disney Records	60865-0
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)	3:14	Alan Menken	Classic Disney, Volume I: 60 Years of Musical Magic	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995-03-28	Walt Disney Records	60865-2, 60865-7
1.14	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:15	Alan Menken	And the Winner Is… A Collection of Honored Disney Classic Songs	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995-10-31
2.9	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Very Best of Disney: 39 Original Songs	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	DE1995-11-27	Polydor (worldwide imprint, see annotation)	529 765-2
1.12	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	Absolutely Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack	GB1995	Walt Disney Records	DISACD 7001
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)	3:14	Alan Menken	Classic Disney, Volume I: 60 Years of Musical Magic (BMG club edition)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995	Walt Disney Records, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)	60865-7, D108692
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)	3:14	Alan Menken	Classic Disney, Volume I: 60 Years of Musical Magic	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	CA1995	Walt Disney Records	60685-7
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)	3:14	Alan Menken	Classic Disney, Volume I: 60 Years of Musical Magic	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	DE1995	edel (just "edel" logo), Walt Disney Records	0108652DNY
1.5	Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Disney's It's a Small World and Other Disney Favorites	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995	Walt Disney Records	60343-7
1.8	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Greatest Hits of Walt Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	FR1995	Walt Disney Records	WDR 36034-2
2.9	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Very Best of Disney: 39 Original Songs	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	DE1995	Polydor (worldwide imprint, see annotation)	529 408-2
2.17	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1996-09-17
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	Disney's Hero Songs (no branding on front cover)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1996	Walt Disney Records	60376-7, 60390-7
3.3	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	La magia Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	IT1996	Buena Vista Records	ARC 06730-0, ARC 06730-0012
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US1997-10-14	Walt Disney Records	60946‐7
3.9	Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	Best of Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1997	Walt Disney Records
1.1	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Disney Collection, Volume 1	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB1998-07-13	Pickwick Music (UK imprint, subsidiary of Pickwick International Inc. (GB) Ltd.)	DST CD 453
1.7	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Disney Experience	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB1998	Walt Disney Records	WD 608202
1.10	The Voyage of the Little Mermaid/Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	Walt Disney World: The Official Album	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1998	Walt Disney Records	60964-7
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AU1999	Walt Disney Records	D89956
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	BR1999	Walt Disney Records	5012012-2
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid Special Edition Double Pack	Various Artists	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack	AU2000 NZ2000	Walt Disney Records	0946 3 65155 2 6
1.8	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)	3:15	Alan Menken	Disney's Greatest, Volume 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2001-02-27	Walt Disney Records	860694
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:17	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Forever	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	KR2001	Walt Disney Records	CP2K-2415 (WALT502369 2)
1.16	アンダー・ザ・シー	?:??	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Kids Club Presents from Mom to Children: Disney’s Happy Songs	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	JP2002-12-11	Walt Disney Records	AVCW-12306
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid (German release of the English-language The Little Mermaid OST)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	DE2002	Walt Disney Records	0927443712
2.9	アンダー・ザ・シー［リトル・マーメード］	3:16	Samuel E. Wright	マイ・ファースト・ディズニーオリジナル・サウンドトラック・ベスト	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	JP2003-11-27	Walt Disney Records	AVCW-12353
2.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	Disney Magic (Asian edition?)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2004-09-28
1.2	Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	Ultimate Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2004-11-15	Walt Disney Records	5050467582125, WSMCD195
1.8	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Greatest Hits of Walt Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	NL2005
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US2006-05-30	Walt Disney Records
1.4	Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Driving With Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2006-07-10	Virgin TV
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack, 2-disc special edition)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US2006-10-03	Walt Disney Records	861618‐7
1.8	Under the Sea (soundtrack version)	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid and Friends	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2006-10-16	Walt Disney Records
2.4	The Little Mermaid / Under The Sea	3:13	[Disney]	Disney: The Music Behind The Magic	Ted Kryczko	Album + Soundtrack	US2006-11-07	Walt Disney Records	D000000102
3.16	Under the Sea (Little Mermaid)	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Best Disney Album in the World …Ever!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2006-11-27
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: Special Edition	Alan Menken	Album + Soundtrack	AL2006-11-27 DZ2006-11-27 (show 191 more) ZW2006-11-27	Walt Disney Records
1.2	Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	Ultimate Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XE2007-10-22 GB2007-10-22	Walt Disney Records	50999 5 10815 2 2, 50999 5 10816 2 1, 50999 5 10818 2 9, 50999 5 10820 2 4, 510 8152
1.9	Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	Disney: Greatest Musicals	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2008-02-25	Virgin TV	VTDCD 886
2.17	The Little Mermaid: Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	101 Songs From the Musicals	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2008-12-01	EMI TV, Walt Disney Records	50999 2 36478 2 4, VTDCDX 931
1.4	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	The Magic Of Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	CZ2009-01-01 PL2009-01-01 (show 2 more) TR2009-01-01	Walt Disney Records
1.8	Under the Sea (soundtrack version)	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid and Friends	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2009-04-11	Walt Disney Records
2.3	Under the Sea	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Magic of Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XE2009-11-23	Walt Disney Records	VTDCD 969
1.11	Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Soundtracks Collection	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2009	Walt Disney Records	5099994993929
1.4	Under the Sea	3:18	Samuel E. Wright	Songs and Story: The Little Mermaid	Various Artists	Album	US2009	Walt Disney Records	D000457202
1.13	Under the Sea (“The Little Mermaid”)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Princesses	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2011-10-03	EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), EMI TV, Walt Disney Records	50999 6 79528 2 3, VTDCD 1033
1.9	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2011-11-21	Walt Disney Records	50999 6 78546 2 2, VTDCD 1036
1.9	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2012-11-19	EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Walt Disney Records	50999 0 17524 2 7, VTDCDX 1052
1.3	Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: Greatest Hits	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	US2013-09-24	Walt Disney Records	D001886702
1.2	Under the Sea	3:14	Alan Menken	Ultimate Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XE2013-10-21	Walt Disney Records	00050087299538
1.5	Under the Sea (“The Little Mermaid”)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That's What I Call Disney Princess	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XW2013-10-25	Walt Disney Records
1.5	Under the Sea (“The Little Mermaid”)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney Princess	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2013-10-28	Walt Disney Records	CDNNNOW5
1.1	Under the Sea	3:12	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Classics Box Set	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2013-11-11	Walt Disney Records
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2013-11-11	Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal (plain logo “Universal” used by Universal Music and Universal Pictures), Walt Disney Records	B0019426-02
2.1	Under the Sea	3:12	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Classics	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	CA2013-11-12 US2013-11-12	Walt Disney Records
1.1	Under the Sea	3:12	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Classics Box Set	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	BR2013-11-30	Walt Disney Records	050087303310
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	Now That's What I Call Disney 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2013-11	Walt Disney Records	B0019427-02
1.10	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2014-11-07	Walt Disney Records
1.10	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2014-11-10	NOW (bogus label; use the MusicBrainz Series instead), Walt Disney Records	CDNNNOW20
1.2	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Icon, Volume 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AU2015-08-14	Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)	8732459
1.2	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Icon, Volume 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XW2016-04
1.5	Under the Sea	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	Classic Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2017	Rhino (reissue label), Universal Music Catalogue (aka UMC), Walt Disney Records	UMCLA040
1.12	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Now That’s What I Call Disney!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2017	Walt Disney Records	CDNNNOW60
1.5	Under the Sea	3:18	Samuel E. Wright	Absolute Disney: Volume 1	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	-2018-02-09	Walt Disney Records	D002790402
1.6	Under the Sea	3:12	Alan Menken	The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Soundtrack	XE2018-04-27	Walt Disney Records	8739257
1.4	Under the Sea - From “The Little Mermaid”	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Magical Musical Passport	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AF2018-08-17 DZ2018-08-17 (show 149 more) ZW2018-08-17	Walt Disney Records
1.3	Under the Sea	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Sing Your Heart Out	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2018-11-19	Walt Disney Records	8740478
1.5	Under the Sea (From "The Little Mermaid")	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Sing-Along: Disney Classics	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XW2018	Walt Disney Records
1.5	Under the Sea	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	Ultimate Disney	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2018	Walt Disney Records	8739241
1.15	アンダー・ザ・シー (『リトル・マーメイド』より)	3:12	サミュエル・E・ライト	Super Friendship! 〜 Disney Music Collection	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	JP2019-06-05	Walt Disney Records	UWCD-1032
1.15	アンダー・ザ・シー (『リトル・マーメイド』より)	3:12	サミュエル・E・ライト	Super Friendship! 〜 Disney Music Collection	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	JP2019-06-05	Walt Disney Records
1.4	Under the Sea	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: The Songs	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack	JP2019-06-26	Walt Disney Records	UWCD-1042
1.4	Under the Sea	3:13	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid: The Songs	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack	JP2019-06-26	Walt Disney Records
1.8	Under the Sea - From “The Little Mermaid” / Soundtrack Version	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Summer Songs	Disney	Album + Compilation	AL2021-05-28 DZ2021-05-28 (show 93 more) VN2021-05-28	UMG Recordings, Inc. (operational headquarters of Universal Music Group, based in Santa Monica, USA; read annotations)
1.3	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:13	Alan Menken	Children's Classic Film Favorites	Various Artists	Album + Compilation
1.4	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)	3:14	Alan Menken	Classic Disney, Volume I: 60 Years of Musical Magic	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AU-	Walt Disney Records	D15087
3.9	Under the Sea	?:??	[Disney]	Disney's 75 Years of Music and Memories	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US-	Walt Disney Records
1.10	Under the Sea	3:13	Alan Menken	Disney's Musical Fantasy	Various Artists	Album	SG-	Walt Disney Records	FCD388
1.12	Under the Sea	3:11	Samuel E. Wright	Disney's Sebastian From The Little Mermaid	Samuel E. Wright	Album + Compilation
1.9	Under the Sea	?:??	Alan Menken	The Disney Collection, Volume 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation
1.8	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)	3:16	Alan Menken feat. Samuel E. Wright	The Envelope Please…: Academy Award Winning Songs, Volume 5 (1982-1993)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation
Promotion
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	Disney's Hero Songs (McDonald's front cover, Circuit City/Tower Records/The Wall/Borders/Spec's Music back cover)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1996	Walt Disney Records
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	Disney's Hero Songs (McDonald's front cover, Circuit City/Target/NRM/Meijer/Camelot Music back cover)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1996	Walt Disney Records	60376-7
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	Disney's Hero Songs (McDonald's front cover, plain back cover)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1996	Walt Disney Records	60376-7
1.6	Under the Sea	3:15	Alan Menken	Music From Lilo & Stitch Soundtrack and Seven Other Classic Disney Songs!	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	IE2002	Ireland on Sunday	[none]
1.2	Under the Sea	3:15	Samuel E. Wright	10 Disney Favorites: Songs from the Sea	Various Artists	Album	US2006	Walt Disney Records	61650-7
1.4	Under the Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	The Little Mermaid Favorites	Alan Menken	Album + Soundtrack	US2013-10-01	Walt Disney Records
Pseudo-Release
1.4	アンダー・ザ・シー	3:13	サミュエル・E・ライト	リトル・マーメイドザ・ソングス	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack
(unknown)
1.16	Under The Sea	3:14	Samuel E. Wright	Disney Ultimate Buddy Collection	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XE2016	Walt Disney Records	8734779
1.11	Under the Sea	3:16	Alan Menken feat. Samuel E. Wright	All for Love	Various Artists	Album + Compilation

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producer:	Howard Ashman Robert Kraft Alan Menken
vocals:	Samuel E. Wright (US actor, voice actor & singer)

sampled by:	Downloading by Negativland
edits:	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 2014 Remaster)

stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/track/5o7inynBJMvqXa9YiJFcVf [info] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3evAxqF4NCs [info]
other databases:	https://www.whosampled.com/Samuel-E.-Wright/Under-the-Sea/ [info]
SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/215669 [info]

recording of:	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)

Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)

lyricist:	Howard Ashman
composer:	Alan Menken

publisher:	ヤマハミュージックEH(CM) 日音 Synch事業部 Walt Disney Music Company, Inc. (music publisher, do not use as release label) (in 1989) Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (a division of Disney Music Publishing) (in 1989)

referred to in medleys:	The Little Mermaid Medley (Disneyland) (order: 4)
later parody versions:	Disney Time
later translated versions:	Bajo el mar (Under the Sea) (La sirenita) Diep in de zee Havet är djupt In fondo al mar Sous l’océan Unten im Meer アンダー・ザ・シーアンダー・ザ・シー (リトルマーメイド; 藤川和彦 translation)
later versions:	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid; Broadway version)
part of:	The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack) Journey of KINGDOM HEARTS (order: 9)
is based on:	The Beautiful Briny (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
is the basis for:	Under the Sea

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