The Prince of Egypt
Dinosaur
Land Before Time
Lion King
Mulan
Watership Down
Secret of NIMH
Beauty and the Beast
Princess Mononoke
Rescuers Down Under

Add to that many, MANY Disney musicals. Too many to list.

Bruce Broughton's Tiny Toons scores are fun as well

Chicken Run is a fantastic score, too.

Iron Giant (the reason I thought of this thread)
Antz
Chicken Run

I like Laputa, too.

An extremely good score, with some fun songs and dialogue done by Vincent Price.

man, could Mancini write some music or what?

I'm surprised his H ness didn't mention Little Prince and the 8-Headed Dragon and The Humpbacked Pony, two neat animated scores by Akira Ifukube.

I learned that Morricone did an animated film but I haven't heard the score.

Gotta say good things about Sakamoto's Wings of Honneamise and many other great Anime scores.

I like old-time scores like Bambi and Gulliver's Travels. Raksin, Kubic, Scott Bradley, Carl Stalling, and others have all contributed great scores to many animated shorts.

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
The original Ralph Bakshi film is somewhat misbegotten (sorry Marian), but LORD OF THE RINGS may well be the finest thing Leonard Rosenman has ever done.

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You're right. The film is BAD! I still love it, though, because they couldn't completely kill Tolkien's story, and it was this film that introduced me to Tolkien in the first place. And of course the fantastic score. I don't know much by Rosenman yet, but this is one of the best music I've ever heard. And if anything saved the film from failing completely, it is probably the score. A shame I didn't mention it in my post above.

1) The Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman)
2) Mulan (Jerry Goldsmith)
3) The Secret of N.I.M.H. (Jerry Goldsmith)
4) Chicken Run (Harry Gregson-Williams & John Powell)
5) Dinosaur (James Newton Howard)
6) Anastasia (David Newman)
7) The Brave Little Toaster (David Newman)
8) The Wrong Trousers (Julian Nott)
9) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Shirley Walker)
10) The Lion King (Hans Zimmer)

And the rest:

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Originally posted by mlw:
I liked the Bakshi Rings flic more than the books. At least the movie was up front about not ending the damned thing. The books just don't know when to quit. In fact they're still not done.

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The ending of the film made ABSOLUTELY NO sense. (It's like having Han Solo killing a minor Imperial admiral followed by a voice-over that tells us that the Rebels have forever defeated the Empire). The complete last hour of the film is very "perforated" and missing many highly important sequences.

And what do you mean by "They're still not done"??

SBD, are Julian Nott's Wallace & Gromit scores available on CD?

I thought Julian Nott's scores to Wallace And gromit were brilliant, Aardman animations could have launched this fine composer into the big time if they had kept him on for Chicken Run, Now don't get me wrong, I thought Gregson Williams and Powell's score worked very well,but it's not as if they were desperate for work!

I thought Julian Nott's scores to Wallace And gromit were brilliant, Aardman animations could have launched this fine composer into the big time if they had kept him on for Chicken Run, Now don't get me wrong, I thought Gregson Williams and Powell's score worked very well,but it's not as if they were desperate for work!

There's an animated film version of Return of the King (the third part of Lord of the Rings).

The IMDb's trivia section says:

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Many Tolkien fans were disappointed when Ralph Bakshi's 1978 adaptation of "Lord of the Rings" covered only the first two books of Tolkien's trilogy. When it became clear that Bakshi would not produce a sequel, Rankin and Bass finished the story for him with this movie.

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1) GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

His countryman Masaru Sato also wrote a wonderful, somewhat uncharacteristic score for the animated TOWARD THE TERRA (probably since issued on CD, but all I have is the 1980-or-so LP).

Shoji Yamashiro's AKIRA is a knockout. (Usually credited to his group Geino Yamashirogumi, but close inspection of the Japanese liner notes reveals that Yamashiro is the principal, if not sole, composer.)

The only Ryuichi Sakamoto composition I enjoy is his main theme for ROYAL SPACE FORCE.

My favorite Disney film, SLEEPING BEAUTY, sports an utterly beautiful score, mostly adapted from Tchaikovsky's ballet of the same title.

Marian actually LIKES a song from MULAN? Oh man! No accounting for taste, I suppose ...

I read that Rosenman's LORD OF THE RINGS was one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time. People probably wanted to get it for the charming main theme ... the average listener probably couldn't get too deep into the rest of it. "Helm's Deep" is plenty addictive, though!

Here's the link:
www.peninsula-films.demon.co.uk/jn.html

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
Marian actually LIKES a song from MULAN? Oh man! No accounting for taste, I suppose ...

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I read that Rosenman's LORD OF THE RINGS was one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time. People probably wanted to get it for the charming main theme ... the average listener probably couldn't get too deep into the rest of it. "Helm's Deep" is plenty addictive, though!

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Which is probably the reason why they put the "theme version" of the end credits march on the album as the first track. The liner notes to Intrada's expanded release say that this track was included "for commercial reasons". It doesn't appear in the film, and in fact harms the flow of the score (which the original album lacked anyway, the highlights being all in the first two thirds of the disc, ending with the finale, and then only stuff that doesn't stand well separated from the rest). In chronological order (as on Intrada's release), the main theme is developed throughout the score, but never fully featured in it's march form until the end credits.

I have both the standard double LP and the picture disc double LP, and it's a real tossup as to which has the worse sound ...

Has anyone mentioned Elmer Bernstein's wonderful Disney score, THE BLACK CAULDRON? (Ah, someone did. I just bothered to check. Isn't there an expanded version -- bootleg or not?)