The soundtrack is lovely, but the full songs were better.
03/26/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Lady and the Tramp has always been one of my favorite Disney movies. The musical score for this animated great is simply wonderful. I was excited to see Disney re-release the soundtrack, and snapped up a copy as soon as I could. The sound was as wonderful as I remembered, except for one thing...the CD has only the clipped parts of the songs that were in the movie, not the whole songs as originally recorded. I had a record as a child that had the full songs (and how I wish I'd kept it!), and that was what I was expecting to find on the CD. I'm still so disappointed to not hear the full effects of the almost heart-breaking "What Is a Baby?" and the beautiful, haunting "La La Lu". I have a baby of my own now, and the songs I sing to him as I rock him to sleep are these two, as best as I can remember them from my own childhood, not as the abbreviated versions on this CD."
Classic Disney. Classic Lee.
04/30/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Make no mistake about it Miss Peggy Lee is one of the finest singer-songwriters this country has ever known! Without Peggy Lee there would be no "Lady and the Tramp". Not only is this a shining example of her abilities as a lyricist it is also a tribute to her talents as a vocal actress ... no one else in the history of animated films supplied so many voices to one feature. She is both Si and Am ("We Are Siamese"), Peg ("He's A Tramp") and Darling ("La La Lu"). Listen very carefully to the opening song "Silent Night" underneath the familiar song is a counter-melody written by Sonny Burke with lyrics by Peggy ("Silent as a snowflake in the night ..."), it is sheer musical genius!Sincere-Lee,Robert Strom THE PEGGY LEE FAN CLUB 744 COLLIER DRIVE SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577"
Charming, Romantic and Wonderfully Composed
11/28/1998
(5 out of 5 stars)
"You will be child again with this wonderful, romantic, and charming soundtrack of one of Disney's masterpieces. I simply adore this score. The songs are just perfect! "Bella Notte" captures the magic of Christmas time, but, anyway, it is a song to be heard all year long. And it is even better when sung and played by the chorus as a background for the two dogs in love. Miss Peggy Lee is a gift from heaven, delivering all her talent throughout the disc. Also, the talents of Oliver Wallace and Sony Burke make this score a truly jewel in the Disney crown. And don't you ever think of missing "Home Sweet Home"!"